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In March this year, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had stated that the UN is “cooperating actively with structures created by the Board of...
Ted Turner, the man who built what can only be described as the imperialism of satellite broadcasting through CNN, has died. He was the first to turn...
“As I was going up the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away.” Scholars David Tyrer...
Activist and humanitarian aid worker Majid Freeman is due in court this week as the final phase of his landmark case comes to an end. Freeman was...
As of May 2026, the U.S. approach to international conflict is characterized by a high-stakes, transactional balancing act – using aggressive,...
Last Friday, 1st May, Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, commented to journalists that his assessment of global stability was reduced to a...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino played an infantile game at the 76th FIFA congress when he encouraged the Palestinian Football Association President...
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote, in...
Anger is spreading across parts of Latin America after Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters and detained...
Israel’s interception of the Freedom Flotilla has intensified debate over the limits of state power at sea, raising questions about jurisdiction in...
The next time you pull into a gas station, watch the number on the pump as you squeeze the handle. That rapidly spinning dollar amount is not just the...
For more than eight decades, the United States has maintained a formidable military presence across the Arabian Gulf. US bases are dotted across Saudi...
In the intellectual circles of Washington and its allies, a growing certainty is evident: a combination of military and economic pressure can bring...
War is also won in the realm of perception. And it is precisely on this terrain that Iran has achieved its most decisive victory. By confronting both...
The defining feature of the UAE model is not strength but illusion. The Iran war has exposed the fraud at its core: a glass city pretending to be a...
For a long time, scholars of social movements assumed that political coalitions form when different groups discover they have aligned interests. But...
In the wake of the forty-day war between Iran and the United States-Israel, no one expected that the governing legal regime of the Strait of Hormuz...
Each time a new flotilla sets sail towards Gaza with the aim of challenging the blockade, the same question is repeated: what is the point if these...
The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC is not just a rupture in oil diplomacy. It is a signal that the old architecture of energy...
Each time diplomacy returns to the Middle East, it promises de-escalation, stability, perhaps even peace. Yet for those in Gaza, such promises have...
I return to my favourite writer, John Thornhill, and borrow from him that rare glint of insight. When he replaced the Strait of Hormuz with Apple, the...
Since the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon to expel the PLO, Hezbollah has been a thorn in Israel’s side. Born of that very invasion, the Party —...
Look, the Middle East keeps being this expensive, messy headache for American foreign policy. It’s unstable, it drains resources, and it keeps...
On the first day of May, in the quiet southern Lebanese village of Yaroun, a monastery that had stood for generations disappeared in a cloud of dust....
Something remarkable is happening in the corridors of Western power. America’s closest allies are no longer whispering their frustrations behind...
In today’s Middle East, competition over energy resources is no longer confined to oil and gas fields; it is increasingly centered on routes—and...
At a high-profile industrial groundbreaking event in Central Java, President Prabowo Subianto responded sharply to critics who describe Indonesia as...
By the end of this month, US–Iran negotiations had reached a near stalemate, following rounds of talks in Islamabad and Muscat that failed to...
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