Browsing: Middle East

Last week, President Donald Trump claimed a secret US mission had moved 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait…

Customer support and service are among the hottest sectors in voice AI right now. But building a product that sounds…

At 1 am during Ramadan, Palestinian journalist Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh sits shoulder to shoulder in a packed Yemeni coffee shop in…

After more than 2,000 hours of government-imposed connectivity blackouts, there were signs on Tuesday that Iran’s internet is coming back—at…

The Gulf’s AI ambitions depend on something surprisingly fragile: a handful of undersea cables running through some of the world’s…

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ effective May 1, ending a membership that began…

Security researchers say they have identified a hack-for-hire group targeting journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East and…

The last time a government official from Lebanon sat down to think carefully about national digital infrastructure, nobody expected another…

If you haven’t heard of UpScrolled before, a brief primer: It’s a social media platform not too different from, say,…

Across the region, facilities tied to water and power—including desalination plants—have been damaged or exposed to risk as Iranian strikes…

Since March, Israeli attacks on Beirut and the occupation of southern Lebanon have displaced over 1 million people. Families are…

In Gaza, registering a death was once—as in most places around the world—a relatively simple administrative task. A body was…

Major US technology companies have been named as potential targets as the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States…

Over the past week, residents across the Gulf have watched missiles and drones cross the night sky—sometimes followed seconds later…

For more than six days, almost 90 million Iranians have been living under a total internet blackout. The shutdown comes…

On February 28, United States and Israeli forces launched a series of strikes on Iran, kicking off turmoil in the…