Travelers walk on the Lebanese side of the Masnaa border crossing with Syria a day after the Assad regime collapsed [Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty] The Lebanese government has finalised a new plan to encourage the return of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees through financial incentives, with the proposal expected …

The war in Ukraine has revived EU enlargement, but it has certainly not fixed the union’s credibility problem. Elites on the European periphery believe that the bloc is losing influence in global and regional affairs. U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on the EU are further eroding the belief that the …

Israel launched wide scale strikes against Iran on Friday, saying it targeted nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders and that this was the start of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon. Iran had launched about 100 drones towards Israeli territory in retaliation, which …