Middle East
Deeply Scarred Middle East Grasps for Calm After 12 Days of War
After a shaky ceasefire, the question is what comes next. But people in the region — like investors and oil traders — are taking it in their stride.
As the night sky lit up with Iranian missiles being intercepted on Monday, people across Doha were on balconies and in gardens watching the show and filming it on their smartphones.
For decades, the idea of a US-Iran conflict raised the specter of World War III. Now Israel has attacked, the US has joined in and the Islamic Republic just aimed its retaliation at the biggest American military base in the Middle East.