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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...
The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan on 7 August, 2026 represents a significant development in the...
The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have again caught...
There’s a lot of discourse lately around the anti-Muslim rhetoric thrown at Muslims running for office. From Abdul El-Sayed to Zohran Mamdani,...
It is easy today to say that Hamas has ended. Gaza is destroyed. The movement’s leaders have been targeted. Its military structure has been badly...
The signing of the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement by Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan on 7 August may eventually be remembered as more than another...
Read Indonesia’s new budget plan for 2027, called the RAPBN, and one region keeps showing up. Not once. Not as a small note at the end. Again and...
The American aircraft carrier was built to terrify other nations. The USS Abraham Lincoln has instead become something far more revealing: a floating...
In Iraq, you can replace the name of Ali Falih al-Zaidi—the current prime minister—with any prime minister since 2003, and nothing in meaning or...
For decades, China’s relationship with the Middle East appeared to rest on a straightforward bargain: the region supplied energy, while China...
There is a recurring tendency among Western analysts to interpret Iran’s political transformations through categories imported from the European...
A political rally in Florida should not, by itself, tell us much about the direction of American foreign policy. This one might. With only three days...
The Mecca Agreement, signed on 7 August, may not be the first step in a series of moves that key states in the region have begun to take, reflecting...
On 14 August 2026, the Speaker of Indonesia’s People’s Consultative Assembly, Ahmad Muzani, stood before parliament in Jakarta and said something...
Every August 14, Pakistan performs sovereignty like a state auditioning for the role of itself. Flags breed on rooftops. Fighter jets carve patriotism...
For many in Ireland the refrain of being the most pro-Palestine supporting country in Europe is a badge of honour (although perhaps the Spanish would...
The recent statement by Nikolay Mladenov, the High Representative of the so-called “Board of Peace,” should not go unquestioned or unnoticed. In...
The US–Iran war reveals a quieter power of generative AI: it can turn unfolding reports into plausible futures, reshape what citizens expect, what...
For more than a century, the Middle East has been one of the world’s most important centres of energy supply. Yet a strategic paradox remains at the...
The forced displacement of Palestinians is taking up much of the Israeli imagination. From the Yellow Line, to pilot projects instead of...
Question doing the rounds is whether meeting the family of a South African citizen serving as an Israeli soldier, as President Ramaphosa did, has...
Ten years have passed since football families in Ireland were given a very clear picture of just how cruel, callous, calculating, and downright racist...
Donald Trump took to social media on Thursday, 30th July, to announce what he called a breakthrough: a phased agreement under the Board of Peace...
Last week’s mass funeral of 112 people—including 44 children from two closely related extended families—was not a new tragedy; it was the...
It is now official: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has flatly rejected the core conditions of the Board of Peace framework, explicitly...
There’s a striking irony sitting inside this year’s diplomacy. Back on May 25, Donald Trump publicly pushed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan,...
Gulf states have answered Iranian pressure in two very different ways. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates bought protection: air defence...
The killing of Libyan journalist and BBC broadcaster Mohamed Mustafa Ramadan outside London’s Central Mosque in 1980, and the recent assassination...
Nearly $30 million was spent by AIPAC and its affiliates to stop Abdul El-Sayed. It was enough to flood Michigan’s airwaves, but not enough to...
Twenty years ago, as Israeli bombs pulverised Lebanon, Condoleezza Rice surveyed the carnage with the serene vocabulary peculiar to imperial officials...
The Mecca defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan is, at first glance, a security development. Yet its longer-term significance may...
Inside a greenhouse in Bogor, an Indonesian student watched an Israeli engineer explain how to make water disappear into soil, drop by drop. No one in...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted upon his rejection of US President Donald Trump’s 15-point plan for Gaza, which would see Hamas...
The antecedents of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regional network of allies can be traced to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War of...
That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has...
In the sweltering heat of an August afternoon, beneath the shadow of the Kaaba, three nations signed a document that may well redefine the political...
It took barely 48 hours for the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement to run into the question that will ultimately decide what it becomes: a historic...
Questions continue to circulate among Egyptians over who was behind the drone attack on Damietta Port in northern Egypt on 29th July. The identity of...
Augustus never recovered from three words. When news reached Rome that three legions had been annihilated in the Teutoburg Forest, the emperor is said...
Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger wasn’t boasting when he said, “Cowardice is not an option in this business.” He wasn’t celebrating personal...
Pakistan’s recurring debate over creating new provinces is too often reduced to questions of ethnicity, language and political bargaining. That...
Throughout history, almost every national liberation struggle has been labelled “terrorism” by the powers exercising colonial rule or foreign...
The next crisis or confrontation in the Gulf may not begin with a territorial invasion or an attack on a military base. It could start with the...
On 4 August, Qatar said mediators had made progress towards US-Iran talks aimed at ending the war, even as Tehran continued to deny direct...
Last month, President Trump initiated the process of removing Syria from the State Sponsors of Terrorism list, allowing foreign investors to commit...
Land at Bali’s airport on pretty much any given week, and you’ll be walking through one of only two gateways in all of Indonesia where Israeli...
Three men stood together in Islam’s holiest city on a Friday, the day of prayer, and signed a document that may outlast the war that produced it....
In June 2026, Chinese electric-vehicle manufacturer BYD confirmed that its planned $1 billion electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle factory in Manisa,...
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