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Macaronis Resort sits on a small island in the Mentawai Islands, off Sumatra, Indonesia, famous among surfers for its powerful wave. In late August...
Some governments fear elections. Others fear protests, judges, journalists or students. Pakistan’s rulers have reached a more exquisite stage of...
Tens of thousands of girls in Gaza have experienced puberty since October 2023. At an already sensitive time, these girls have been left with no...
Washington has changed weapons. It has not changed its problem. On 24 August, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stood before reporters and announced...
On 24 August, the Trump administration launched an operation called “Economic Outcast”, describing it as the largest economic offensive ever...
When Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement on 7th August, declaring that an attack on one signatory would be...
The discrepancy between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statements and those of the EU shows where the political deficiency lies....
The Washington framework agreement conditions Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon on the verified disarmament of Hezbollah. The pilot zones were...
The most grotesque possibility in the war to prevent an Iranian bomb is that the war itself may manufacture the bomb. Washington has spent years...
Reprehensible as it is, the arms trade is an exercise of purgatorial ethics pursued by all states keen on having a market for the merchants of death:...
If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the events unfolding in the small...
On 22nd August last year, the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) officially confirmed famine in Gaza Governorate, including...
When I look back at my university years—sharing a dorm room with a Kurdish colleague—I am reminded of a country that once understood unity not as...
What’s the difference between Auschwitz-Birkenau complex and the Israeli Zionist gallows? Auschwitz-Birkenau did not come with a special “viewing...
There is something profoundly unsettling about a military power becoming alarmed by children flying kites: In Gaza, where childhood has already been...
Acting forcefully against kites is one of Israel’s latest purported security concerns. “My directive to the defence establishment and the IDF is...
The conflict with Iran continues to deliver its mean shocks to an increasingly doddering US imperium. Depleted munitions, depleted stocks of...
Rania, 27, travelled with her husband and two children to Alexandria, northern Egypt, for a holiday on the Mediterranean coast. She never returned...
After two decades without legislative elections, the Palestinian people may finally be called upon to renew their institutions. A presidential decree...
The most consequential feature of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is not its alleged resemblance to NATO. It is not a Sunni pact either, and neither...
Restraint is hardest when it looks like weakness. Israel’s 18 August strike on Syria’s Abu al-Duhur airbase, followed by direct Israeli-Turkish...
Six months into a war that began on 28 February 2026, with strikes that killed Iran’s supreme leader, Washington has stopped choosing between...
Sometime this past week, an Iranian parliamentary official told a Lebanese television channel that Tehran had received an invitation to join the Mecca...
Halmahera is an island in Indonesia’s North Maluku province. It holds the country’s largest known reserve of nickel, a metal the world wants very...
Jordan does not have Saudi Arabia’s oil, Qatar’s gas or Iraq’s hydrocarbon wealth. It does, however, possess another asset that is becoming...
The Palestinian people in Gaza are suffering from ongoing genocide in the form of a blockade, starvation, assassinations, and other atrocities....
Being a resident in Gaza has proved lethal not merely for civilians eking out a wretched existence. Mortality rates among journalists, medical...
In recent days, major US and international media outlets, including The Washington Post, Sky News and The Wall Street Journal, have focused on...
When the United States and Israel opened their war on Iran on 28th February by assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the calculation in...
On 26 June, Faleh al-Fayyad, the chairman of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, inaugurated a new “Department of Human Rights” within the...
A Palestinian took the invaders’ weapon, turning it against them to defend his homeland. Immediately hordes of settlers attacked Palestinian towns...
In an age when sacred beliefs are traded in the political marketplace and theology is weaponized as a cudgel to intimidate the other, Dr. Rowan...
Over two years of denial will likely now translate into a new form of impunity. Israel has announced it will be investigating the killing of five year...
Electoral shifts in Latin America are testing the cohesion of the Hague Group, a prominent international bloc launched in January 2025 by Global South...
To live in the occupied West Bank today is to exist within a finely tuned apparatus of deliberate friction. When people outside Palestine think of the...
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) recent decision to sever all trade and financial ties with Iran, executed alongside an escalating US naval blockade,...
The runway at Abu Duhur had been quiet for many years. Old MiG jets were corroding in the Syrian dust in the north of the country – relics of the...
The ongoing, siege of Palestinian homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, shows how Israel’s creeping annexation of the occupied West Bank...
Colombia’s decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights marks a dangerous turning point. By becoming only the...
There are political prisoners whom regimes fear because they are alive. There are martyrs whom regimes fear because they are dead. Imran Khan has...
Indonesia loves to tell the world it stands with Palestine. The government has no official relations with Israel. Leaders speak about Palestinian...
The 60-day window created by the Islamabad Memorandum expired on Monday with no permanent agreement between the United States and Iran. The 14-point...
In December 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Palm Beach, Florida, with evangelical Christian Zionist leaders and university presidents....
In a desperate attempt to salvage what is left of Trump’s “peace deal” in Gaza after it was blatantly rejected by Israel, Trump’s son-in-law...
In January, I argued that the United States was not retreating from the Middle East but was executing a deliberate shift, transferring security...
The escalating conflict between the United States and Iran has reached a dangerous operational and diplomatic impasse where public political posturing...
The news that Chris Wormald, the former head of the UK civil service, has been awarded £500,000 in compensation—more than half a million...
More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population....
There are moments in international politics when a particular confrontation becomes larger than the immediate dispute that produced it. The present...
Egypt faces an unusual paradox. A country that once presented itself as the gas hub of the Eastern Mediterranean now depends increasingly on liquefied...
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