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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...
It is not true that the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei necessarily means the immediate collapse of the regime. This is a hasty...
Two weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the dominant narrative has settled into a comfortable groove: The United States and Israel stumbled into a war...
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...