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

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...

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Rami G Khouri

No, MAGA is not divided on the Iran war

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...

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Andrew Mitrovica

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

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...

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Ali bahreini

The Iranian moment: A leap into the unknown

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...

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Mahjoob Zweiri

Hunger is looming over Yemen, urgent action is needed

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...

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Samiha awad bataher

US’s new scramble for Africa is biomedical imperialism

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...

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Tafi Mhaka

The ‘bad leader’ trap

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...

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Somdeep Sen

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

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...

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Jonathan Whittall

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

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...

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Sudan’s devastating war rages on as regional rivalries deepen

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...

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Shewit woldemichael

The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire was built to fail

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 40

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Andrea tenenti

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

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...

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Sina Toossi

Duterte’s drug war faces judgement at the ICC

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...

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Elaine Pearson

Geopolitical analysis of the imposed war against Iran

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,...

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Mohammad reza bahrami

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

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...

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C justin robinson

Carney confirms: When Washington whistles, Ottawa salutes

Carney confirms: When Washington whistles, Ottawa salutes

True leadership is measured by action, not words. Recently, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney struck the tone of a thoughtful statesman at the...

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Andrew Mitrovica

We, the American people, have had enough of endless wars

We, the American people, have had enough of endless wars

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...

08.03.2026 40

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Hussam ayloush

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away

Honouring Gaza’s women who refused to let the world look away

As the world marks International Women’s Day, the airwaves of global media are filled with symbolic gestures and pompous rhetoric about women’s...

08.03.2026 40

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Huda Skaik 

Iran’s strikes on the Gulf: Burning the bridges of good neighbourliness

Iran’s strikes on the Gulf: Burning the bridges of good neighbourliness

When the United States and Israel launched their coordinated assault on Iran in the early hours of February 28, 2026, an operation Washington has...

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Sultan Al-Khulaifi

Wake up before it’s too late: Oppose the unjust, cruel war on Iran

Wake up before it’s too late: Oppose the unjust, cruel war on Iran

Today is the eighth day of the American-Israeli axis of aggression against Iran. In a flagrant violation of Iran’s territorial integrity and...

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Esmaeil baghaei

Iran’s legal case for striking the Gulf collapses under scrutiny

Iran’s legal case for striking the Gulf collapses under scrutiny

The Gulf states have spent years trying to broker peace between Iran and the West: Qatar brokered nuclear talks, Oman provided back-channel diplomacy,...

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Hesham alghannam

Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Why international law is still the world’s best defence

Conceived in the long shadow of global devastation, the post–World War II order was constructed -imperfect yet purposeful – to shield humanity...

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Fatou bensouda

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,...

06.03.2026 60

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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...

06.03.2026 60

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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

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...

04.03.2026 60

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Vidya krishnan

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

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

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...

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Ori Goldberg

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...

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Daoud Kuttab

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 60

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Mohammad Reza Farzanegan

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 60

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Khalid Al-Jaber

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

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

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?

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

26.02.2026 60

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Somdeep Sen

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...

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Vidya Krishnan

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...

25.02.2026 70

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Leonid Ragozin

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

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

24.02.2026 70

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Yang Xiaotong

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 70

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Patrick Gathara

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...

22.02.2026 150

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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...

21.02.2026 150

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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...

20.02.2026 80

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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 50

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Ammad Butt