Aged 81, Fr. Gianmaria Gianazza is about to complete the critical edition of the Book of the Tower, a huge ecumenical encyclopedia of the Church of the East which was written in Arabic at the beginning of the eleventh century

Over the years, the Afghan branch of ISIS has managed to evolve from being a disparate and precarious rabble into a disciplined, efficient and ideologised group with the capacity to extend its operations beyond the purely regional level

In Iraq, the factions aligned with the Iran-led Axis of Resistance are confronting the American troops while also aiming to gain full control of the Iraqi state

Bangladesh is among the top six migrant source countries in the world. Even though the choice of the UK has traditionally been the top destination for long-term Bangladeshi migrants, Italy has recently emerged as one of their major European destinations

The response to Hamas’s attack has broken the security cordon that surrounded certain pages of the Old Testament. Judaism is also confronted with the question of religious violence

The statement from the Al-Qassam brigades launching the 7 October attack provides insight into the objectives and nature of the Palestinian Islamist movement