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The end of Iran’s strategic patience

The end of Iran’s strategic patience

Since October 7, 2023, the United States and Israel believed that sustained diplomatic and military pressure on Iran would deter and degrade its...

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Jonathan Whittall

A weak Iran would backfire on the United States

A weak Iran would backfire on the United States

Supporters of the United States and Israeli military campaign against Iran argue that weakening Tehran by degrading its missile capabilities,...

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Alexander clackson

How Iran fights an imposed war

How Iran fights an imposed war

In Iranian political discourse, major conflicts are often described as “imposed wars” – wars that Iran believes have been forced upon it by...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Hezbollah’s risky return to the battlefield

Hezbollah’s risky return to the battlefield

The ongoing United States-Israel attack on Iran, triggered by the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader last Saturday, has rekindled military and...

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Rami G Khouri

Israel puts a target on the back of the rules-based order

Israel puts a target on the back of the rules-based order

In a post from its official X account yesterday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs directed a message towards The Hague Group, a growing...

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Jonathan Whittall

Will the Houthis join Iran’s war?

Will the Houthis join Iran’s war?

The United States-Israeli military strike against Iran on February 28, 2026, was not merely another episode in the region’s long cycle of tensions....

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Ahmed Al-Shalafi

The dark side of Holi

The dark side of Holi

His name was Hiranyakashipu, and he claimed to be equal to Lord Vishnu, the Preserver of the Universe. Tragically for him, his own son, Prince...

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Vidya krishnan

The Iran strikes could become a midterm reckoning – for Trump and Israel

The Iran strikes could become a midterm reckoning – for Trump and Israel

It is clear that the latest United States-Israel-Iran war stands to fundamentally reshape the politics of the Middle East. Less obvious is its...

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Mohamad Elmasry

How Russia could benefit from the US-Israeli war on Iran

How Russia could benefit from the US-Israeli war on Iran

The US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei have caused a measure of discomfort in Moscow. Some...

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Leonid Ragozin

US and Israeli interests may soon diverge on Iran

US and Israeli interests may soon diverge on Iran

As the US-Israeli war on Iran drags on for another devastating day, pundits and politicians are eager to spin the uncertainty into clear narratives...

02.03.2026 40

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Ori Goldberg

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire. Here is why

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s assassination will likely backfire. Here is why

A favourite tactic of war is to try to decapitate the enemy leadership. While such strategies might work in certain contexts, in the Middle East, they...

02.03.2026 60

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Daoud Kuttab

Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

For years, interventionists in the West made the argument that the long-term costs of the political order in Iran, such as repression, economic decay,...

01.03.2026 40

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Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

The US-Israeli war on Iran could rewrite Gulf security calculations

The US-Israeli war on Iran could rewrite Gulf security calculations

The United States-Israeli war on Iran is just one day old, and it is already clear it will have a profound impact on the Middle East and the Gulf in...

01.03.2026 40

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Khalid Al-Jaber

Under the shadow of the Iran war, Israel finds another way to punish Gaza

Under the shadow of the Iran war, Israel finds another way to punish Gaza

As Israel and the United States attacked Iran, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began to panic. They remembered how crossings were closed in the past,...

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Ohood nassar

Epstein and the politics of distraction

Epstein and the politics of distraction

After the beginning of Trump’s second term, the connections between capitalism, white supremacy and imperial domination became increasingly clear....

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Yoav Litvin

The fantasy of an easy victory in the war on Iran

The fantasy of an easy victory in the war on Iran

Earlier today, the United States and Israel launched an attack against Iran, hitting targets across the country. In their televised speeches, US...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Who is really safe in India and Israel?

Who is really safe in India and Israel?

Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi shared a conspicuously warm embrace as the Indian prime minister stepped off Air India One at Israel’s Ben...

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Somdeep Sen

In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary

In Modi’s India, scandal still embarrasses but rape has become ordinary

As court documents tied to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein continue to surface, the scandal has become an international embarrassment, exposing how...

25.02.2026 60

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Vidya Krishnan

Four years into the Ukraine war, Moscow sees vindication, not failure

Four years into the Ukraine war, Moscow sees vindication, not failure

As the all-out war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, Russian political elites remain convinced that their leader, Vladimir Putin, did not make a grave...

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Leonid Ragozin

Three myths about the Russia economic war

Three myths about the Russia economic war

Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the devastation wrought by the Kremlin’s drones, infantry, missiles and armour continues...

24.02.2026 40

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Maximilian Hess

Iran cannot defeat US military might, but it can still win

Iran cannot defeat US military might, but it can still win

Last week, American diplomats and their Iranian counterparts sat down in Geneva for yet another round of talks mediated by Oman. The outcome seemed...

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Yang Xiaotong

What is really behind the West’s colonial nostalgia

What is really behind the West’s colonial nostalgia

For many years, the global “rules-based order” was presented as a benign system of global governance established by the West. True, its origins...

23.02.2026 50

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Patrick Gathara

El Mencho’s killing won’t solve Mexico’s cartel problem – or anything else

El Mencho’s killing won’t solve Mexico’s cartel problem – or anything else

On Sunday, Mexican security forces killed 59-year-old Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, the leader of the notorious Jalisco New...

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Belen Fernandez

The Carlson-Huckabee interview may be the wake-up call Americans needed

Prominent American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has caused quite a stir. Since it...

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Mohamad Elmasry

UEFA and FIFA may get a red card at the ICC for ignoring Israeli violations

On February 16, a group of Palestinian footballers, clubs and advocacy groups referred the heads of FIFA and UEFA to the International Criminal Court...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Israel wants to execute Palestinians and the world will allow it

The Israeli Knesset is pushing through a bill that, if passed, would allow the occupation authorities to legally execute Palestinians. This...

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Mohamad Alqeeq

Is southern Yemen’s next phase being decided on the ground?

It is no longer possible to interpret the Yemeni landscape solely through the lens of politics. The developments witnessed in the southern Yemeni...

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Ahmed Al-Shalafi

Migrants are not responsible for the UK’s healthcare crisis

Last week, Reform UK’s newest MP, Suella Braverman, and the party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, argued that high levels of migration are placing...

19.02.2026 40

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Ammad Butt

The quiet conquest of the West Bank and the death of the Oslo Accords

Israel always had a plan to annex more land in the occupied West Bank, and its actions prove it. This week, the Israeli cabinet approved a plan to...

19.02.2026 60

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Mariam Barghouti

Calculated hypocrisy: Why Western powers court Beijing but rely on US

A parade of Western leaders to Beijing, including French President Emmanuel Macron in December,  and more recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark...

18.02.2026 70

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Wenran Jiang

The injustice in Chagos continues

President Donald Trump’s description earlier this month of the UK–Mauritius agreement on the sovereignty of the Chagos Islands as “an act of...

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Clive Baldwin

Europe’s Israel policy faces a democratic test

More than 457,000 European citizens have signed a petition calling for the full suspension of the European Union’s partnership agreement with Israel...

16.02.2026 70

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Majed Al-Zeer

Indonesia’s Gaza gamble

President Prabowo Subianto’s government said on February 10 that Indonesia is preparing to deploy up to 8,000 troops to a proposed multinational...

16.02.2026 150

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Ronny P Sasmita

Why the BNP won Bangladesh’s post-uprising election

In the end, the 13th parliamentary election in Bangladesh was not a revolution. It was a reckoning. When the ballots were counted, the Bangladesh...

15.02.2026 100

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Abu Jakir

This Valentine’s Day, chocolate comes with new risks

This Valentine’s Day, chocolate prices are no longer at last year’s peak, but cheap chocolate has not made a comeback, and it probably never will....

15.02.2026 100

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Kaveh Zahedi

The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

For decades, the Palestinian cause has found its most receptive audiences on the political left. Progressive movements, human rights organisations and...

15.02.2026 100

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Ahmed Najar

Africa must boycott the 2026 World Cup

12.02.2026 40

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Tafi Mhaka

The USS Honduras sets sail again

It’s smooth sailing these days for the United States and Honduras, the diminutive Central American nation and original “banana republic” that...

12.02.2026 60

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Belen Fernandez

On Ukraine, ‘liberal’ war hawks make the far right look like peacemakers

11.02.2026 50

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Leonid Ragozin

The UK’s shrinking centre is Keir Starmer’s real crisis

Just over two years in power, and the United Kingdom’s Labour government is facing an existential crisis. Disclosures linked to the Epstein files...

11.02.2026 60

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Ahmed Najar

Why did Saif al-Islam Gaddafi have to die?

10.02.2026 90

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Anas El Gomati

Pakistan can sell weapons in the Middle East, but can it sell security?

09.02.2026 90

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Riaz Khokhar

I am one of 22,000 Gaza patients waiting in desperation for evacuation

09.02.2026 50

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Saeda Hamdona

Iran-US talks in Muscat bought time, not a deal

08.02.2026 60

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Muhanad Seloom

Somalia is the missing pillar of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden stability

08.02.2026 70

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Ali Omar

India now sets the terms of global cricket

07.02.2026 70

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Andrew Fidel Fernando

Trump’s building a new world order, and there’s a method to his ‘madness’

06.02.2026 100

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Nick Dearden

If Jamaat comes to power, Bangladeshi Hindus will be safe. I am the proof

06.02.2026 90

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Krishna Nandi

Trump’s America First doctrine is remaking global diplomacy

06.02.2026 70

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Adolfo Franco

Israel’s war on Gaza’s healthcare continues in full force under ‘ceasefire’

06.02.2026 90

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Mads Gilbert