He is a product — and the embodiment — of twentieth-century conflict
By David Patrikarakos
More than two millennia of Jewish history stalks the land that now encompasses the modern state of Iraq
By David Patrikarakos
I have come to ask Lévy about the future of the West — if, that is, he feels there will be one
By David Patrikarakos
The US withdrawal has helped Tehran solve its most pressing problem
By David Patrikarakos
The situation is so bleak that the regime — for which mendacity is perennial policy — doesn’t even bother denying it
By David Patrikarakos
Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse by Charif Majdalani reviewed
By David Patrikarakos
They disappeared their opponents. They hounded them and even assassinated them, but they never, ever shot them in the streets
By David Patrikarakos
Ebrahim Raisi sat on Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s ‘death committee’
By David Patrikarakos
Smartphones are handing victory to the losers of war
By David Patrikarakos
On land, sea and in cyberspace, the Israelis and Iranians have been going at it for years
By David Patrikarakos
On Monday night a volley of rockets struck a base hosting US troops in Erbil
By David Patrikarakos
How an American outsider wrote the history of our future
By David Patrikarakos
Iranians are trapped. They die when they’re in lockdown, and they die when they are allowed out
By David Patrikarakos
Kareem Ennarah was taken from a restaurant and, that night, transferred to a Cairo jail
By David Patrikarakos
Someone somewhere has relayed a simple message: administrations may change, security concerns do not
By David Patrikarakos