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A few days after Donald Trump expressed his satisfaction with the recent agreement on Gaza, Israel made it clear that the deal fell short of its...
Europe did not rediscover its soul when Palestinian blood was spilled. It did not find its moral courage when homes, hospitals, universities, archives...
A warning from Ras Laffan The Middle East is usually described as the engine room of the hydrocarbon economy. But it also sits quietly inside the...
The Iran crisis has become more than another confrontation in the Middle East. For America First, it is a test of a political promise: Can the United...
When temperatures crossed 43°C across western Libya in July, with some places like Al-Azizia, just south of Tripoli, recording near 50°C, it was not...
The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages...
The confrontation with Iran has put one of Donald Trump’s central political promises under real strain. Trump built his political brand on a...
For most of Pakistan’s history, the security state has divided the country into two convenient species: the obedient and the dangerous. The...
We should at least entertain the theoretical possibility that Iraq’s new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, is not a fully formed Iranian proxy in the...
At 2 a.m. Michigan time last night, NBC projected that AIPAC’s candidate was on her way to look for a new job. Representative Haley Stevens’...
Another trumpeted achievement, another heralded occasion of momentous significance. Or it may be nothing of the sort. US President Donald J. Trump...
It has almost been 7 months since President Donald Trump, in January 2026, announced the establishment of the Board of Peace to govern the post-war...
The Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov once again altered his rhetoric after Hamas announced its agreement to disarm, which...
US President Donald Trump declared that Hamas had agreed to lay down its arms, and much of the international media echoed the announcement as though a...
The quiet arrival of hundreds of Chinese shoulder-fired air defense missiles in Iran marks a decisive inflection point in the high-stakes...
The renewed instability surrounding the Red Sea, recurring security concerns in the Strait of Hormuz and repeated attacks on critical maritime...
As the European Union seeks to further fortify its external borders, its Home Affairs Council met in Luxembourg on June 8 to finalize a common policy...
Donald Trump threatened Iran with another strike, then called it off within hours — at the request, he said, of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar. He...
On 1 August, at a business forum in Jakarta, President Prabowo Subianto told a room of executives that Iran already has nuclear weapons, and that a...
Stark images of thousands of migrants swarming across Africa’s border with Europe during the Ceuta crisis appeared heaven sent...
The world today feels as if it is being governed by two master fabulists—Tehran and Donald Trump—each bending reality in his own way, each forcing...
On 29th July 2026, a suspected drone struck the Energos Winter, a US-owned floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), at Egypt’s Damietta...
It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque organisation of...
Crises end. Institutions remember. On an autumn morning in October 1973, motorists across Europe and North America queued for hours outside petrol...
On 28th February, 2026, Iran launched Operation “True Promise-4,” a wave of ballistic missiles and drones into Israeli airspace. The strikes were...
In modern history, rarely has there been a moment of global consensus quite like this: an absolute, unified rejection by football confederations...
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim recently made it clear that any Israeli nationals found in Malaysia would be deported immediately. This comes after...
Indonesia’s own Ministry of Trade has published data showing the country is still importing goods from Israel today, in 2026, almost three years...
There are sentences one never expected to write. Here is one: Sepp Blatter is beginning to look good. That is quite an accomplishment by Gianni...
The pace of settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank has escalated to the point where their consequences are becoming increasingly...
At the UN Security Council on Tuesday this week, Palestinian Permanent Observer Riyad Mansour called for “a strong international response before it...
Israel dragged America into another war, then sat back on the spectator bench and watched U.S. taxpayers foot the bill. Borrowed money burned into...
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly....
Today, as the flags fly at half-staff over the United States Capitol, Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the pews of Washington’s National Cathedral, paying...
A ministerial meeting in Amman last week barely registered outside Jordan’s own newswires. An Indonesian government delegation sat down with...
A Palestinian took the invaders’ weapon, turning it against them to defend his homeland. Immediately hordes of settlers attacked Palestinian towns...
Trafficking in persons remains one of the most pervasive and devastating crimes of our time. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the scale...
In international politics, silence can sometimes speak louder than explosions. When two long-standing adversaries such as the United States and Iran...
For decades, I watched Pakistan’s military relationship with the Middle East unfold largely away from the headlines. Pakistani officers trained Gulf...
The ink on the multi-decade US–Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement had barely dried in Washington when the architecture of modern Middle...
The events unfolding in the occupied West Bank can no longer be understood merely as a succession of settler attacks or isolated outbreaks of...
The deal between the US and Saudi Arabia to help the Gulf kingdom develop nuclear energy is a coup for Mohammed bin Salman. Some observers believe he...
Strongmen are not discarded because they become brutal. Brutality is often the job description. They are discarded when brutality stops delivering....
A joint press release by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) gave an overview of the current food...
Colombia’s incoming government is preparing to reverse one of the most significant foreign policy shifts of President Gustavo Petro’s...
A photograph is circulating from the Farnborough International Airshow in England, held from 20 to 24 July. It shows Lieutenant General Rui F.G.P....
From attacks on shipping in the Red Sea to repeated threats around the Strait of Hormuz, the Middle East’s energy arteries are under growing...
For decades, travellers returning from Europe to the Middle East carried stories that were more fantasy than fact—tales shaped not by reality but by...
For two nights after US Central Command announced a 13th consecutive night of strikes, it issued no announcement of fresh attacks on Iran. Yet...
For much of the past four decades, the strategic debate over Iran has revolved around one recurring assumption that Tehran is a fundamentally reactive...
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