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Zero Hour for the Middle East
ByRoger Cohen, David Guttenfelder, Saher Alghorra, Daniel Berehulak and Nanna Heitmann December 28, 2025December 28, 2025

After more than a decade of wars, from Syria to Gaza, the Middle East is exhausted by conflict. Is it ready to find another way?

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Alawite Muslims | Assad, Bashar al- | Defense and Military Forces | Human Rights and Human Rights Violations | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Law and Legislation | Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ) | Minorities | Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides | Politics and Government | Syria | War and Armed Conflicts

Syria Tiptoes Toward Transitional Justice One Year After Assad’s Ouster
ByCarlotta Gall and Saad Alnassife November 29, 2025

Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.

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Abd El Fattah, Alaa | Amnesties, Commutations and Pardons | Cairo (Egypt) | Egypt | Great Britain | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ) | Political Prisoners | Sisi, Abdel Fattah el- | Starmer, Keir

Egypt Pardons Most Prominent Political Prisoner
ByVivian Yee September 22, 2025

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual citizen, was imprisoned for most of the past 12 years as a dissident. He and his mother went on hunger strike to press for his release.

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Abd El Fattah, Alaa | Amnesties, Commutations and Pardons | Cairo (Egypt) | Egypt | Great Britain | Iran | Iran's nuclear programme | Israel | Israel–Iran War | Middle East and North Africa Unrest (2010- ) | Political Prisoners | Sisi, Abdel Fattah el- | Starmer, Keir

Egypt Pardons Alaa Abd El Fattah, Its Most Prominent Political Prisoner
ByVivian Yee September 22, 2025September 22, 2025

Alaa Abd El Fattah, a British-Egyptian dual citizen, was imprisoned for most of the past 12 years as a dissident. He and his mother went on hunger strike to press for his release.

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