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YUMA, ARIZONA - MAY 22: Immigrants from Cuba and Venezuela warm themselves by a fire before sunrise along the U. S. -Mexico border barrier as they await processing by the U. S. Border Patrol after crossing from Mexico on May 22, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona. Title 42, the controversial pandemic-era border policy enacted by former President Trump, which cites COVID-19 as the reason to rapidly expel asylum seekers at the U. S. border, was set to officially expire on May 23rd. A federal judge in Louisiana delivered a ruling May 20th blocking the Biden administration from lifting Title 42. Mario Tama / Getty Images / AFP

Why US action in Venezuela is causing so much anxiety in Middle East

History of American militarism and threats of escalation keeping the region on edge

Supporters of Yemen's Houthis shout slogans during a rally to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the ousting of the government in Sanaa, Yemen September 21, 2021. REUTERS / Khaled Abdullah

Israel's first attack on Yemen – what happens next?

Nada AlTaher hosts a discussion with Abdul Ghani Al-Iryani, senior researcher at the Sana'a Centre for Strategic Studies, and Kobi Michael, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv

(FILES) Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha-based political bureau chief of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, speaks to the press after a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister in Tehran on March 26, 2024. The United States unsealed a raft of "terrorism" and other charges against six Hamas leaders on September 3, 2024 related to the armed Palestinian group's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The charging document, dated February 1, targets six leaders of the group -- including Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and late political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in late July in Tehran. (Photo by AFP)

What happens next after the Hamas and Hezbollah assassinations?

Host Nada AlTaher speaks to MENA programme director at Crisis Group Joost Hiltermann and Palestinian analyst Taghreed El-Khodary

Smoke billows after a hit from a rocket fired from southern Lebanon over the Upper Galilee region in northern Israel on September 4, 2024. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

The weight of Israel and Hezbollah’s warfare on life in Lebanon

Host Nada AlTaher assesses the impact on day-to-day life and politics in Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel exchange threats that grow more serious each day

FILE PHOTO: Israeli soldiers guard along a fence leading to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, as part of search efforts to capture six Palestinian men who had escaped from Gilboa prison earlier this week, by the village of Muqeibila in northern Israel September 9, 2021. REUTERS / Ammar Awad / File Photo

How Israeli prisons became 'a network of torture camps'

Host Nada AlTaher delves into the experiences of two former Palestinian detainees who share their harrowing accounts of life in Israeli detention centres