Podcast: Beyond the Headlines

Protesters block a road in Tehran. Nationwide demonstrations were sparked by economic hardship. Getty Images

What options does Iran have as pressure builds?

Mass protests and US threats have put survival of Tehran’s government into question

Protestors in Malaga, southern Spain, take part in a demonstration against the US operation in Venezuela. AFP

Why the US action in Venezuela is unnerving the Middle East

How serious is the ISIS threat in Syria?

The year in impact: our episodes that resonated the most in 2025

Egypt

Egyptian authorities holding talks with a Hamas delegation and representatives of various Palestinian factions, in Cairo, on Wednesday, to select a technical committee for Gaza. EPA

Palestinian factions agree on formation of 12-man committee to run Gaza

Candidates to meet to review committee's mandate and priorities, sources say

MENA

Call for Sudan peace push at Cairo meeting

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Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia welcome US terrorist listing for Muslim Brotherhood

MENA

Egypt expands military goals in Somalia after Israel's Somaliland recognition

MENA

Lebanon

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun meets envoys including Yazid bin Farhan of Saudi Arabia, fourth from left, and French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian, right, at the Presidential Palace in Baabda on Wednesday. AFP

France to host fundraising conference for Lebanon's military in March

Overstretched and underfunded, Lebanese armed forces are carrying out the sensitive task of disarming Hezbollah

MENA

CommentIn Lebanon, the US has been reduced to playing good cop to Israel's bad cop

Comment

Beirut court issues more charges against former central bank chief Riad Salameh

MENA

Lebanon signs offshore gas deal With TotalEnergies, Eni and QatarEnergy

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