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Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than...
Brazil is experiencing one of its most polarised electoral battles, as the race intensifies between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his...
Half a billion Arabs inhabit a region drowning in weapons. There are millions of men under arms, fleets of American and European combat aircraft,...
In Gaza, keeping a medical device running can depend on access to engine oil. A Reuters report published on 10 September 2026 describes shortages of...
The age-old debate between faith and atheism emerged alongside the very first stirrings of human consciousness. It is a centuries-long conflict that...
Israel can still win the war in Gaza. It cannot win the argument that follows it. That is the gap accountability advocates keep pointing to, and it is...
The nuclear confrontation with Iran is again moving in two opposite directions. On 9 September, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of...
Is Israel really moving towards military self-reliance – or is the US-Israel “special relationship” being transformed into something even more...
Israeli companies are increasingly operating in Indonesia. They are using Indonesian locations, Indonesian creative talent and Indonesian commercial...
Oil markets are behaving as if the region’s supply problems will soon resolve themselves. That confidence is becoming increasingly difficult to...
For decades, Eastern Mediterranean security debates centered on who bought what—fighter jets, missile batteries, submarines. The transaction was the...
For decades, Israel’s energy security was defined by scarcity. Lacking substantial domestic fossil-fuel production, it depended heavily on imported...
Few events have altered the geopolitical trajectory of the Middle East as profoundly as 11 September 2001. The attacks on New York and Washington did...
The international community has rightly become more alert to the threat posed by hostile states beyond their own borders. Putin’s war machine...
A year ago this week, a 400-page legal petition arrived on the desks of the UK Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Defence Secretary and the...
International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have...
The two-state paradigm is already obsolete. Therefore, when the Board of Peace’s High Representative Nickolay Mladenov gives yet another reason why...
There was a time when Pakistan could still distinguish an alliance from an employment contract. In April 2015, Saudi Arabia wanted Pakistani aircraft,...
“The decline of a great power does not begin when it loses its weapons. It begins when its weapons can no longer deliver the political outcomes they...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) wants to invest in a large dam in Indonesia. The dam, called Bulango Ulu, sits in Bone Bolango, in Gorontalo province,...
The Trump administration has begun preparing a US strategy for the period following the end of the war with Iran, intended to guide its Middle East...
Imagine this scene: “One young woman, fearing she would not survive, stepped out of the crowd and handed her infant to one of the female doctors.”...
The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence....
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the most enduring legacy of 9/11 may not be the destruction of the World Trade Center or even the wars...
While following Channel 4’s coverage of Tel Aviv’s decision to close the British Consulate in Jerusalem, I was struck by a comment from the...
The United Kingdom’s decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank was not a routine legal measure, nor a narrow...
During Israel’s genocide in Gaza, people around the world understood that diplomacy was not truly averse to the erasure of Palestinians. When Israel...
The late Dr. Israel Shahak once related that during WWII when a collaborator at the Warsaw ghetto was eliminated, the jubilant inmates (himself...
Lebanon’s electricity crisis is usually attributed to fuel shortages, financial collapse and institutional failure. All three explanations are...
A proposal to sell the Suez Canal, in north-eastern Egypt, has sparked widespread concern among Egyptians, who are already deeply suspicious of the...
After a summer in which the dreams of dozens of the best and the brightest young people in Palestine seemed to be shattered by the Irish authorities,...
On a summer day in 1749, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was walking through the streets of Paris when he stumbled upon a question posted by the Academy of...
A few days ago, a very interesting article appeared in the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post. It was written by AJ Jaff, whose profile describes...
Cyprus presents one of the Eastern Mediterranean’s most striking energy contradictions. It possesses commercially promising offshore gas fields, yet...
When Iran launched salvoes of drones and missiles at American bases, the message was clear. Strikes hit facilities in Kuwait, Jordan, and the United...
Let’s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumstances. Be done with the...
President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Syria as a possible alternative to the Strait of Hormuz has pushed an old energy-security problem back to...
Andy Burnham said sorry. He didn’t stop the weapons. Britain’s new prime minister built his early image on contrition. In July, before he even...
The question is not an attempt to predict the outcome of Israel’s upcoming election on October 27, nor is it a wager on whether Prime Minister...
The United States’ decision to impose counterterrorism sanctions on Palestinian activist Rawa Alsagheer and the Masar Badil movement has triggered...
The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan on 7 August 2026 has introduced a new element into an already...
Palestinians in Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are preparing for legislative elections on 28 November, nearly two decades after the last...
Five years after storming back to power, Afghanistan’s Taliban government wants the world to see a settled fact: a state that has outlasted...
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that the military would not withdraw from the territory it occupied in Gaza, Defence Minister...
In September 2025, nine countries launched the Declaration for the Protection of Humanitarian Personnel. Australia explained its important if dark...
Amid a war of aggression waged by the United States and ‘Israel’ against Iran, a group of intellectuals identified with the left published in the...
For three decades, the West told itself a comforting story about China. Admit it into the global trading system, the theory went, and market forces...
The death of Palestinian artist Sliman Anis Mansour stirred powerful memories. He passed away at Al-Makassed Hospital in occupied East Jerusalem on...
According to the popular narrative surrounding the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), some of sort of...
For most countries, electricity is an economic input. For Syria, it is something more fundamental: a test of whether the state can again provide basic...
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