These Times Live: War and Peace in the Middle East

These Times Live: War and Peace in the Middle...

Up next

Trump’s war on the Fed & Bulgaria’s Euro disaster

In the week when the Trump administration threatened criminal charges against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the high-stakes power struggle to dismantle central bank independence and privatise the U.S. dollar. Added to Bulgaria’s ...  Show more

Venezuela special: Maduro, oil, and Trump’s next target

In today’s Venezuela special, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that signals the end of international law. As the first days of 2026 unfold, could Trump’s gangster-style intervention ...  Show more

Recommended Episodes

Iran and Israel Step Out of the Shadow War: Rising tensions threaten to spark regional war
The New Arab Voice

Tensions across the Middle East, recently rose to worrying highs. 

It started on 1 April, when Israel launched an attack on Iran's consulate building in the Syria capital of Damascus. Iran responded to this by firing hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel. I ...

  Show more

The Threat of a Wider War in the Middle East
The Daily

A recent string of attacks across the Middle East has raised concerns that the war between Hamas and Israel is spreading, and might put pressure on other countries like Iran and the United States to get more involved.

Eric Schmitt, who covers national security for The Ti ...

  Show more

Florence Gaub und Carlo Masala, wie krass eskaliert die Gewalt im Nahen Osten?
F.A.Z. Podcast für Deutschland

Wir erreichen die beiden Politikwissenschaftler Gaub und Masala am NATO Defense College in Rom und sprechen über den Krieg in Israel und die bevorstehende Bodenoffensive. Außerdem stellen wir Theresa Weiß und Eckart Lohse die Frage nach dem Stellvertreterkonflikt hier in Deutschl ...  Show more

The fall of Western order, the rise of the Global South | Wadah Khanfar
The Big Picture with Mohamed Hassan

Are Western leaders sleepwalking into a disaster in the Middle East? As regional tensions surge amid Israel’s devastating war in Gaza, its allies in the US and Europe have refused calls to de-escalate the conflict and prevent the staggering toll on human life from spiralling furt ...  Show more