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On Sunday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered a major defeat in the legislative election after 16 years in power. For all the talk of him...
On Holy Saturday as Palestinian Christians tried to reach the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, Israeli security forces started attacking and...
When the lights went out in Cuba last month leaving in the dark 10 million people, American media coverage reflexively reached for its tired old...
It was too much to ask of United States Vice President JD Vance that he hammer out a peace agreement with representatives of the Islamic Republic of...
On Saturday, the United States and Iran held direct negotiations for the first time in more than a decade. The talks ended without a deal, as the US...
The announcement of a ceasefire by United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday has brought some relief to the Gulf region, seafarers and the...
Expectations for the upcoming talks between the United States and Iran in Pakistan are understandably modest. There is even a risk that the meeting...
When UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in the Gulf this week, the message was clear: Britain was back, ready to play a stabilising diplomatic...
Whatever the fate is of the putative two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, it remains historically significant due to novel dynamics...
On the 40th day of the war that Washington called “Epic Fury” and Tehran named “True Promise 4”, United States President Donald Trump and...
Today, to borrow a phrase, we are all Iranians. We are Iranians, witnessing the failure of a thuggish logic practised by the United States and Israel,...
After threatening on Tuesday that a “whole civilisation will die tonight”, US President Donald Trump had to backtrack and announce a...
During the first month of the US-Israel war on Iran, the Houthis adopted a cautious approach, even though many expected them to move faster based on...
As the US threatens to launch a ground invasion of Iran, many questions remain about its goals and geographical span. Some scenarios suggest a focus...
The ongoing war of choice launched by the United States and Israel against Iran has shattered the geopolitical status quo in our region. As Washington...
It is time for the United Nations to accept that Israel’s attack on its agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is an essential part of the Israeli...
When the United States and Israel launched their illegal war on Iran on February 28, they called on the Iranian people to rise up. They then proceeded...
For decades, leaders who were responsible for war crimes tended to plead ignorance or insist it was a mistake and their hands were clean. What has...
“We are going to do what we did in Gaza.” That’s how a senior Israeli official described the Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon. The threat is...
On Monday, Israel passed a death penalty law allowing it to hang those convicted of “terror offences” within an accelerated 90-day period. The law...
When Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation as Iran’s new supreme leader was announced, many observers treated it chiefly as a confirmation of a new...
On April 1, a British court is set to rule in an important trial that could define the limits of mass protest in Britain. Ben Jamal, director of the...
The ongoing United States-Israeli war on Iran has thrust the Strait of Hormuz into the centre of a multidimensional geopolitical crisis. Since...
I saw a lot of death in Gaza. Not natural death. Brutal, methodical killing. But there is something particularly horrific about digging up medics...
In recent days, alongside continued claims of successes in this war, a new tone is emerging in Israel’s media, piercing the Israeli sense of...
It is Land Day today in Palestine, a day when we commemorate our special bond with the Palestinian land. And I cannot help but think about my...
One week ago, several outlets reported on a consequential development in the disciplinary case regarding the alleged sexual misconduct by the...
We are witnessing a war on humanity. This might sound hyperbolic to some, but it should not. What is unfolding across the globe is not a series of...
The United States-Israel war against Iran is usually described in the language of strategy: Deterrence, escalation, military pressure, missile...
The Strait of Hormuz is the only major commercial artery on earth named after a god. The name derives from Hormoz, the Middle Persian rendering of...
My deepest sympathies lie with the Iranian people, whose hearts are torn in many directions. Many long for freedom and dignity, yet they remain wary...
On March 23, President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran had reached “major points of agreement”. Shortly after, he claimed...
For more than two weeks now, maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted. Several vessels have been attacked, and many others...
In March 2003, a million people took to the streets of London to oppose the illegal invasion of Iraq. Seeing straight through the lie that Iraq...
United States President Donald Trump’s instincts are correct. He wants to end the current engagement as soon as possible. He is using both a carrot...
The US-Israeli war on Iran will have a profound impact on the global energy markets. It has already sent the price of the benchmark Brent crude oil...
Since Donald Trump entered the political fray, critics have opined that if he ever faced a direct confrontation with Iran as United States president,...
Israel’s attacks in Lebanon — and the threat of more to come — have caused more than a million people to flee their homes. This is nearly...
On Monday, the Supreme Court of Canada will begin a four-day hearing for one of the most consequential constitutional cases in the country’s recent...
For decades, the world has treated Israel’s nuclear arsenal as an awkward secret — something everyone knows exists but few are willing to discuss...
At the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, reports emerged that Jordan and Egypt have cut off gas supplies to Syria. These reports appeared as minor...
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, upon coming to power in Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution, adopted a distinctly Shia-sectarian constitution. With...
As the United States–Israel war against Iran enters its third week and continues to spill across the region, the question is no longer who will win...
February 28, 2026, will be remembered as the day the law of the jungle returned. On that fateful day, the United States and Israel, in flagrant...
While the world’s attention is fixed on the Iran war, Israel has quietly tightened its chokehold on Gaza, further restricting the flow of goods and...
The world still speaks about the Strait of Hormuz as if the central question were whether Iran will try to close it. That is now the wrong question....
Israel and America’s war on Iran has killed more than 1,500 people in a matter of weeks, and the toll continues to rise. In Tehran on March 7,...
The United States and Israel say their escalating military assault on Iran is about nuclear proliferation, deterrence and regional security. But...
Every war produces dissent. Most people keep it to themselves. Some leave quietly. Very few say plainly what they think. Joe Kent did. The director of...
The United States–Israeli war on Iran is as much a collision of competing religious ideologies as it is a clash of strategic interests. To...