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Special InvestigationMiddle EastNov 9, 2026

Brothers Over a Headscarf, Partners Over a Pipeline: What Ankara and Baku Settled in Shusha, and What They Left Outside

Ankara and Baku quarrelled over a school hijab ban, and reconciled in Shusha. The ban stayed, the Turkish adviser who opposed it went, and the oil kept flowing to Israel through Turkish soil...

Special InvestigationMiddle EastOct 27, 2026

The Coalition Israel Imagined, and the One It Got: Sunni States United Without a Palestinian State, and Israel Helped Make It Happen

An Israeli strategist said Sunni states would not unite without a Palestinian state. They did, after Gaza and the Israeli strike on Doha. Israel calls the pact a threat. It gains only if the pact is turned into a war on Iran. It …