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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...
True leadership is measured by action, not words. Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck the tone of a thoughtful statesman at the...
The United States has once again been dragged into a catastrophic war in the Middle East. The US military is now attacking Iran not because our nation...
As the world marks International Women’s Day, the airwaves of global media are filled with symbolic gestures and pompous rhetoric about women’s...
When the United States and Israel launched their coordinated assault on Iran in the early hours of February 28, 2026, an operation Washington has...
Today is the eighth day of the American-Israeli axis of aggression against Iran. In a flagrant violation of Iran’s territorial integrity and...
The Gulf states have spent years trying to broker peace between Iran and the West: Qatar brokered nuclear talks, Oman provided back-channel diplomacy,...
Conceived in the long shadow of global devastation, the post–World War II order was constructed -imperfect yet purposeful – to shield humanity...
Since October 7, 2023, the United States and Israel believed that sustained diplomatic and military pressure on Iran would deter and degrade its...
Supporters of the United States and Israeli military campaign against Iran argue that weakening Tehran by degrading its missile capabilities,...
In Iranian political discourse, major conflicts are often described as “imposed wars” – wars that Iran believes have been forced upon it by...
The ongoing United States-Israel attack on Iran, triggered by the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader last Saturday, has rekindled military and...
In a post from its official X account yesterday, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs directed a message towards The Hague Group, a growing...
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....
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...
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...
The US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayotallah Ali Khamenei have caused a measure of discomfort in Moscow. Some...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
After the beginning of Trump’s second term, the connections between capitalism, white supremacy and imperial domination became increasingly clear....
Earlier today, the United States and Israel launched an attack against Iran, hitting targets across the country. In their televised speeches, US...
Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi shared a conspicuously warm embrace as the Indian prime minister stepped off Air India One at Israel’s Ben...
As court documents tied to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein continue to surface, the scandal has become an international embarrassment, exposing how...
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...
Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the devastation wrought by the Kremlin’s drones, infantry, missiles and armour continues...
Last week, American diplomats and their Iranian counterparts sat down in Geneva for yet another round of talks mediated by Oman. The outcome seemed...
For many years, the global “rules-based order” was presented as a benign system of global governance established by the West. True, its origins...
On Sunday, Mexican security forces killed 59-year-old Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, the leader of the notorious Jalisco New...
Prominent American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson’s interview with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has caused quite a stir. Since it...
On February 16, a group of Palestinian footballers, clubs and advocacy groups referred the heads of FIFA and UEFA to the International Criminal Court...
The Israeli Knesset is pushing through a bill that, if passed, would allow the occupation authorities to legally execute Palestinians. This...
It is no longer possible to interpret the Yemeni landscape solely through the lens of politics. The developments witnessed in the southern Yemeni...
Last week, Reform UK’s newest MP, Suella Braverman, and the party’s chairman, Zia Yusuf, argued that high levels of migration are placing...