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War crimes are no longer shameful. That should terrify you

War crimes are no longer shameful. That should terrify you

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...

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Philippe bolopion

Why Lebanon should join the International Criminal Court

Why Lebanon should join the International Criminal Court

“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...

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Mark Kersten

Israel’s death penalty law is not about executing Palestinians

Israel’s death penalty law is not about executing Palestinians

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...

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Mariam Barghouti

Mojtaba Khamenei’s rumoured injury or death won’t change Iran’s trajectory

Mojtaba Khamenei’s rumoured injury or death won’t change Iran’s trajectory

When Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation as Iran’s new supreme leader was announced, many observers treated it chiefly as a confirmation of a new...

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Kayhan Valadbaygi

The attack on the right to protest in the UK is not just about Palestine

The attack on the right to protest in the UK is not just about Palestine

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...

31.03.2026 20

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Feyzi ismail

Three scenarios for the Strait of Hormuz

Three scenarios for the Strait of Hormuz

The ongoing United States-Israeli war on Iran has thrust the Strait of Hormuz into the centre of a multidimensional geopolitical crisis. Since...

31.03.2026 50

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Nafja sabbah al-kuwari

We dug up medics in Gaza. A year later, international law remains buried

We dug up medics in Gaza. A year later, international law remains buried

I saw a lot of death in Gaza. Not natural death. Brutal, methodical killing. But there is something particularly horrific about digging up medics...

30.03.2026 30

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Jonathan Whittall

Did Israel miscalculate in launching the war on Iran?

Did Israel miscalculate in launching the war on Iran?

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...

30.03.2026 40

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Daniel Levy

Green and Yellow: Two lines that separate me from my land

Green and Yellow: Two lines that separate me from my land

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...

30.03.2026 50

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Refaat Ibrahim

ICC states should not ignore judicial experts’ conclusions in Khan’s case

ICC states should not ignore judicial experts’ conclusions in Khan’s case

One week ago, several outlets reported on a consequential development in the disciplinary case regarding the alleged sexual misconduct by the...

29.03.2026 50

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Cuno tarfusser

The US-Israeli war on humanity

The US-Israeli war on humanity

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...

29.03.2026 50

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Yara Hawari

How the US and Israel are making the Islamic republic stronger

How the US and Israel are making the Islamic republic stronger

The United States-Israel war against Iran is usually described in the language of strategy: Deterrence, escalation, military pressure, missile...

28.03.2026 60

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Hossein Dabbagh

The Strait of Hormuz is not just an oil chokepoint

The Strait of Hormuz is not just an oil chokepoint

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...

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Mohammed al-hashemi

As a Palestinian, I stand in solidarity with the Iranian people. Here’s why

As a Palestinian, I stand in solidarity with the Iranian people. Here’s why

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...

26.03.2026 30

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Ghada ageel

What it would take to end the Iran war

What it would take to end the Iran war

On March 23, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran had reached “major points of agreement”. Shortly after, he claimed...

25.03.2026 50

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Sultan Al-Khulaifi

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is an international crisis

Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is an international crisis

For more than two weeks now, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted. Several vessels have been attacked, and many others...

25.03.2026 60

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Ahmed essa al-sulaiti

Keir Starmer’s policy on the Iran war is a recipe for catastrophe

Keir Starmer’s policy on the Iran war is a recipe for catastrophe

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...

24.03.2026 30

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Jeremy Corbyn

The US should end the war asap

The US should end the war asap

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...

24.03.2026 40

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John feehery

Why the oil and gas price shock from the Iran war won’t just fade away

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...

23.03.2026 60

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Nikolay Kozhanov

Trump can declare victory in Iran – and he should

Since Donald Trump entered the political fray, critics have opined that if he ever faced a direct confrontation with Iran as United States president,...

23.03.2026 60

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Adolfo Franco

Israel’s displacement of civilians in Lebanon is a possible war crime

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...

23.03.2026 60

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Nadia hardman

Canada’s Supreme Court must strike down Quebec’s Bill 21

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...

22.03.2026 60

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Stephen brown

Why the world should worry about Israel’s nuclear doctrine

For decades, the world has treated Israel’s nuclear arsenal as an awkward secret — something everyone knows exists but few are willing to discuss...

22.03.2026 70

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Ahmed Najar

Arab states should beware of Israel’s hegemonic energy expansion

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...

21.03.2026 60

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Hisham bustani

Iran’s dilemma in war and peace

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, upon coming to power in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, adopted a distinctly Shia-sectarian constitution. With...

20.03.2026 40

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Najeeb ghanem

The US–Israel war with Iran will not end with a clear victor

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...

20.03.2026 60

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Sultan Barakat

China’s silence on Iran reveals its true priorities

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...

20.03.2026 60

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Yang Xiaotong

Eid under siege: Little to celebrate in Gaza as Israel tightens chokehold

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...

20.03.2026 60

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Amal Abu Seif

Iran does not need to close the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt it

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....

20.03.2026 40

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Rashid al-mohanadi

Iran today, Africa tomorrow

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,...

20.03.2026 70

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Tafi Mhaka

The oil logic behind Trump’s war on Iran

The United States and Israel say their escalating military assault on Iran is about nuclear proliferation, deterrence and regional security. But...

18.03.2026 70

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Ilan Kapoor

The Kent warning: When truth escapes the war machine

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...

18.03.2026 70

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

The US-Israel war on Iran is shaped by religion as much as strategy

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...

17.03.2026 60

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Riaz Khokhar

Why the Iranian regime did not collapse after Khamenei’s assassination

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...

17.03.2026 90

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Abdullah fahad al-nafisi

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is why

Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war...

16.03.2026 150

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Muhanad Seloom

What do the first two weeks of the war on Iran portend for the future?

The first two weeks of the Israeli-American assault on Iran have generated enormous amounts of news, propaganda and speculation. Politicians and...

16.03.2026 60

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Rami G Khouri

No, MAGA is not divided on the Iran war

Sometimes, journalists indulge in myths and delusions they claim to decry. This grating inclination has been on almost giddy display in the still...

16.03.2026 60

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Andrew Mitrovica

Minab: When the world’s most precise missile chose a classroom

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...

15.03.2026 60

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Ali bahreini

The Iranian moment: A leap into the unknown

Since the 1920s, Iran has lived through two defining political moments that have reflected two distinct civilisational identities. They have shaped...

14.03.2026 50

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Hunger is looming over Yemen, urgent action is needed

While international attention is focused on the conflict in Iran and its regional spillover, a devastating crisis in Yemen is drawing almost no...

14.03.2026 60

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Samiha awad bataher

US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism

Late in February, Zimbabwe pulled out of a proposed $367m United States health funding agreement after objecting to provisions requiring broad...

13.03.2026 100

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Tafi Mhaka

The ‘bad leader’ trap

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...

13.03.2026 50

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Somdeep Sen

Destroy, displace, dismantle: Israel’s Gaza doctrine comes to Lebanon

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...

13.03.2026 70

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Jonathan Whittall

The war of signals: How Russia and China help Iran see the battlefield

When three senior American officials told The Washington Post that Russia was providing Iran with sensitive intelligence, including the precise...

12.03.2026 100

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Sudan’s devastating war rages on as regional rivalries deepen

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...

11.03.2026 70

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Shewit woldemichael

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was built to fail

The resumption of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah has surprised few who have been watching closely. The question was never whether conflict...

11.03.2026 70

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Andrea tenenti

Iran’s strategic patience tactic failed, what comes next could be far worse

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...

11.03.2026 90

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Sina Toossi

Duterte’s drug war faces judgement at the ICC

As world institutions wobble, The Hague has unexpectedly become the stage for a reckoning long denied in the Philippines. Proceedings at the...

10.03.2026 50

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Elaine Pearson

Geopolitical analysis of the imposed war against Iran

In the second week of the war against Iran, it has gone beyond a local conflict, with ramifications reaching the global level. This conflict,...

10.03.2026 80

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Mohammad reza bahrami

It is time for the world to move on without the United States

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...

09.03.2026 50

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C justin robinson