After its invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Russia bought and improved them (as the Geran-2). It has since churned out tens of ...

T o mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist has published its 14th annual glass-ceiling index. We rank 29 ...

P RINTED ON TREADMILLS and exercise bikes in gyms around the world is a simple method for estimating the maximum rate at ...

Elites should stop assuming that the barriers to progress are the same from Brazil to Bangladesh, writes Alice Evans ...

Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on why divisive machismo is at the core of the Trump administration’s military ...

Iran has retaliated at scale. Hundreds of drones and missiles have been launched at targets in the Gulf, with confirmed ...

T he border between Israel and Lebanon bears the scars of its most recent war. On the Lebanese side, the village of Mais al-Jabal—used by Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militia, to l ...

A fictional account of a third Gulf war between America, Israel and Iran explores how such a conflict might reshape Middle ...

With Mr Trump’s blessing, some Kurds in Iraq speak excitedly of reunifying their fractured homeland and reuniting with ...

By contrast, Mr Trump and his cabinet have offered a mess of shifting assertions—about Iran’s missiles, nuclear weapons, ...

A selection of books examines Iran's turbulent history, from American influence and the Islamic revolution to the recent ...

The Age of Innocence. By Edith Wharton. Barnes & Noble; 336 pages; $8.95. Penguin Books Ltd; 336 pages; £8.99. Before she ...