Middle East & Africa
Bibi and the generals
Netanyahu wages war and fights for his own survival
A new emergency cabinet brings military experience, but not necessarily restraint
An interview with Moussa Abu Marzouk
A Hamas leader refuses to admit his group planned to kill civilians
Moussa Abu Marzouk shows no remorse
A terrible set of choices
Brutal urban warfare awaits Israel’s army in Gaza
Toppling Hamas might not be possible without an occupation
The “Axis of Resistance”
After its brutal attack, Hamas is calculating its next move
Hamas’s militants are now preparing for the Israeli ground invasion they assume is imminent
Clueless in Gaza
Hamas’s attack was an Israeli intelligence failure on multiple fronts
It was also a textbook military operation
Hostage diplomacy
Israeli hostages now face a terrifying ordeal
Hamas may want to swap Israeli captives for many more Palestinians
A shocking assault
Israel reels as Hamas launches a spectacular and bloody offensive
It has echoes of the attack 50 years ago that launched the Yom Kippur war
Prison and a prize
A woman described as Iran’s “Nelson Mandela” wins the Nobel peace prize
Opponents of the regime hope she could inspire a new wave of protests
Give us this day
Egypt’s bread subsidies are unsustainable
But with inflation soaring people can afford few alternatives
Sudan’s civil war
Genocide returns to Darfur
Survivors tell of mass slaughter, murdered babies and kill lists
Deaf on the Nile
Egypt’s rushed election shows Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is nervous
It will be easy for him to win a third term. Seeing it out may be harder