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For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean. What has...
“We are going to do what we did in Gaza.” That’s how a senior Israeli official described the Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon. The threat is...
On Monday, Israel passed a death penalty law allowing it to hang those convicted of “terror offences” within an accelerated 90-day period. The law...
When Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation as Iran’s new supreme leader was announced, many observers treated it chiefly as a confirmation of a new...
On April 1, a British court is set to rule in an important trial that could define the limits of mass protest in Britain. Ben Jamal, director of the...
The ongoing United States-Israeli war on Iran has thrust the Strait of Hormuz into the centre of a multidimensional geopolitical crisis. Since...
I saw a lot of death in Gaza. Not natural death. Brutal, methodical killing. But there is something particularly horrific about digging up medics...
In recent days, alongside continued claims of successes in this war, a new tone is emerging in Israel’s media, piercing the Israeli sense of...
It is Land Day today in Palestine, a day when we commemorate our special bond with the Palestinian land. And I cannot help but think about my...
One week ago, several outlets reported on a consequential development in the disciplinary case regarding the alleged sexual misconduct by the...
We are witnessing a war on humanity. This might sound hyperbolic to some, but it should not. What is unfolding across the globe is not a series of...
The United States-Israel war against Iran is usually described in the language of strategy: Deterrence, escalation, military pressure, missile...
The Strait of Hormuz is the only major commercial artery on earth named after a god. The name derives from Hormoz, the Middle Persian rendering of...
My deepest sympathies lie with the Iranian people, whose hearts are torn in many directions. Many long for freedom and dignity, yet they remain wary...
On March 23, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran had reached “major points of agreement”. Shortly after, he claimed...
For more than two weeks now, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted. Several vessels have been attacked, and many others...
In March 2003, a million people took to the streets of London to oppose the illegal invasion of Iraq. Seeing straight through the lie that Iraq...
United States President Donald Trump’s instincts are correct. He wants to end the current engagement as soon as possible. He is using both a carrot...
The US-Israeli war on Iran will have a profound impact on the global energy markets. It has already sent the price of the benchmark Brent crude oil...
Since Donald Trump entered the political fray, critics have opined that if he ever faced a direct confrontation with Iran as United States president,...
Israel’s attacks in Lebanon — and the threat of more to come — have caused more than a million people to flee their homes. This is nearly...
On Monday, the Supreme Court of Canada will begin a four-day hearing for one of the most consequential constitutional cases in the country’s recent...
For decades, the world has treated Israel’s nuclear arsenal as an awkward secret — something everyone knows exists but few are willing to discuss...
At the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, reports emerged that Jordan and Egypt have cut off gas supplies to Syria. These reports appeared as minor...
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, upon coming to power in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, adopted a distinctly Shia-sectarian constitution. With...
As the United States–Israel war against Iran enters its third week and continues to spill across the region, the question is no longer who will win...
February 28, 2026, will be remembered as the day the law of the jungle returned. On that fateful day, the United States and Israel, in flagrant...
While the world’s attention is fixed on the Iran war, Israel has quietly tightened its chokehold on Gaza, further restricting the flow of goods and...
The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question....
Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise. In Tehran on March 7,...
The United States and Israel say their escalating military assault on Iran is about nuclear proliferation, deterrence and regional security. But...
Every war produces dissent. Most people keep it to themselves. Some leave quietly. Very few say plainly what they think. Joe Kent did. The director of...
The United States–Israeli war on Iran is as much a collision of competing religious ideologies as it is a clash of strategic interests. To...
It is not true that the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei necessarily means the immediate collapse of the regime. This is a hasty...
Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war...
The first two weeks of the Israeli-American assault on Iran have generated enormous amounts of news, propaganda and speculation. Politicians and...
Sometimes, journalists indulge in myths and delusions they claim to decry. This grating inclination has been on almost giddy display in the still...
Deleted: It is often said that the worst evils are committed not by monsters or sadists, but by people who are terrifyingly ordinary. United States...
Since the 1920s, Iran has lived through two defining political moments that have reflected two distinct civilisational identities. They have shaped...
While international attention is focused on the conflict in Iran and its regional spillover, a devastating crisis in Yemen is drawing almost no...
Late in February, Zimbabwe pulled out of a proposed $367m United States health funding agreement after objecting to provisions requiring broad...
Today we are once again caught in what I would like to call the “bad leader trap”, a recurring pattern in international politics in which the...
Israel has killed almost 600 people in Lebanon and displaced more than 750,000 in less than two weeks. This is the opening act of Israel’s Gaza...
When three senior American officials told The Washington Post that Russia was providing Iran with sensitive intelligence, including the precise...
Sudan’s civil war will soon enter its fourth year, with no end in sight. The conflict has drawn in other regional actors, who support and sustain...
The resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has surprised few who have been watching closely. The question was never whether conflict...
For years, Iran’s leaders believed time was on their side. After the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement, known as the Joint...
As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become the stage for a reckoning long denied in the Philippines. Proceedings at the...
In the second week of the war against Iran, it has gone beyond a local conflict, with ramifications reaching the global level. This conflict,...
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched a war on Iran. The US-Israeli attacks came without prior warning or approval by the United...