The NationalEN
From the 1956 Suez Crisis to the 2026 Iran war: Is the era of US primacy in the Middle East coming to an end?
Seventy years after a ceasefire ended the France-Britain-Israel tripartite aggression on Egypt, the Middle East finds itself confronting another historical turning point. The 1956 Suez Crisis marked more than the decline of British and French imperial power. It exposed the limits of military force, demonstrated the power of political legitimacy and accelerat