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There is a hard truth Gulf capitals do not like to say aloud: hosting an American base does not only buy protection. It also rents out geography. It...
The trouble with spy stories is not that they are unbelievable. It is that in Pakistan they are often believable for reasons that make every serious...
China’s rapid robotization drive is reshaping its energy sector, from solar panel manufacturing and wind turbine assembly to oil and gas operations...
Something historic is stirring inside the American Jewish community. Not a murmur of dissent, but a seismic re-evaluation — of identity, of loyalty,...
For generations, Indonesian Muslims have looked to the Middle East as the highest destination for Islamic learning. A degree from Cairo, Medina or...
When the European Union officially launched the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), much of the world’s attention focused on its...
The framework agreement signed in Washington on June 26 between the United States, Israel, and Lebanon is being analyzed in most capitals as a...
The Palestinian national team did not qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Yet Palestine became one of the tournament’s defining presence, not...
When President Donald Trump announced on 31 May that Tom Barrack would serve simultaneously as US Ambassador to Ankara, Special Presidential Envoy to...
Diplomacy often celebrates the signing of agreements. History judges whether those agreements change realities or merely rename them. The trilateral...
Few Iranian officials embody the regime’s contempt for facts as brazenly as Aliakbar Velayati. His rhetoric recalls the early days of Ayatollah...
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and the President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one,...
For seventy five years, the Israeli army has marketed itself as the ‘most moral army’ in the world, in what is known in Zionist terminology as...
When teaching at Oxford University, the oldest in England, I was regularly served meals on High Table underneath a magnificent portrait of Queen...
Keir Starmer is set to leave office after announcing his resignation on Monday, ending a premiership marked by collapsing public support, internal...
The latest round of negotiations between the United States and Iran in Switzerland may not yet qualify as a historic breakthrough but it may become...
Two Doctrines, One Conflict When the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes against Iran in June 2025, the world’s strategic analysts...
Seventy-eight per cent of Americans support ending the war with Iran, while 57 per cent believe it has created more problems than it has solved. At...
Israeli colonialism entrenched an apartheid system. The reality has been documented multiple times and acknowledged even within Israel, most...
Summer nears, yet Iran’s power troubles run deeper than just hot days. Blackouts loom not simply due to weather but because neglect has weakened the...
Following the conclusion of the United Nations-facilitated Structured Dialogue, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of...
People can be consciously aware of atrocities without experiencing the moral outrage those horrors warrant. This emotional detachment is particularly...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect for human...
One must give credit where credit is due: Israel, by behaving with the strategic subtlety of a chainsaw in a porcelain museum, has achieved what...
For decades, oil and natural gas defined power in the Middle East. Control over hydrocarbon resources shaped alliances, triggered conflicts and...
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, chairman of Indonesia’s National Economic Council and one of the most influential figures in the country’s economic...
Israel’s politicians and generals have a strategy: not security, not coexistence. It is the oldest colonial formula in history: seize the land,...
For generations of Palestinian farmers, the June harvest was a sacred time of community, folklore, and relief from the winter’s anxieties. But in...
Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for an alternative war. After his room for action against Iran became limited, and after Washington began pressuring...
Joint air and naval exercises, military co-production projects, and growing security, intelligence and diplomatic coordination between Egypt and...
There is no disputing that human rights discourse safeguard the interests of former and current colonial powers. When the ceasefire was announced, it...
The recent war involving Iran has revived a longstanding debate about the nature of Iranian power and the future of the Middle East. For decades,...
History has not been kind to Iraqis. For more than two decades, they have lived without a single contemporary symbol capable of restoring even a...
I am angry, and have been for days. This time the reason was not the catastrophic, bleeding injustice of what is happening day after day to our...
When U.S. and Iranian negotiators left Switzerland on June 22, the important result was not a final peace treaty. Mediators said the two sides had...
In Switzerland, amid the alpine calm where empires go to perfume panic as diplomacy, Iran delivered another masterclass in the ancient art of refusing...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup began surrounded by a contradiction that extends far beyond the boundaries of the football pitch. While FIFA insists on...
For decades, the geopolitics of Middle East energy has been defined by a familiar set of variables: oil reserves, production capacity, strategic...
There are moments in international affairs when language itself becomes part of the violence. Lebanon’s latest tragedy may be one of them. More than...
On 17th February, addressing the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, former prime minister Naftali Bennett...
In October 1968, at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, the American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the medal podium after the 200...
Human rights organisation Medico International and the German network “Coordination gegen Bayer-Gefahren“ (Coordination against Bayer Dangers,...
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