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Whose interests does the ceasefire serve?

Whose interests does the ceasefire serve?

A new report released yesterday by the UN Commission of Inquiry states that Israel is still committing genocide in Gaza after the ceasefire agreement...

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Ramona Wadi

The Mecca Pact Courts Iran: Containment Comes Full Circle

The Mecca Pact Courts Iran: Containment Comes Full Circle

For nearly half a century, Iran’s adversaries have tried to isolate it, intimidate it, sanction it into submission and bomb it into irrelevance....

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Junaid S. Ahmad

Weighing dependence on Washington: Trump between Zelensky and Netanyahu

Weighing dependence on Washington: Trump between Zelensky and Netanyahu

Within eight days in October, US President Donald Trump made two statements about two wartime leaders that, placed side by side, read like a...

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Ahmed Asmar

Egypt’s regime persecutes journalists

Egypt’s regime persecutes journalists

The assault on an Egyptian journalist, who was beaten and dragged along the ground outside 6 October Central Hospital, west of Cairo, just days ago,...

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Mahmoud Hassan

Lula’s victory is a cry for sovereignty against imperialism

Lula’s victory is a cry for sovereignty against imperialism

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in the second round of Brazil’s presidential election safeguards the country’s path towards determining its...

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Sayid Marcos Tenorio

Why is the Middle East waiting out the Trump presidency?

Why is the Middle East waiting out the Trump presidency?

There appears to be little prospect of lasting peace between Iran and the United States while Donald Trump remains in the White House. This is a view...

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Nouroz Khan Bijarani

Could Hormuz become America’s Suez?

Could Hormuz become America’s Suez?

In 1956, Britain was forced to abandon the Suez Canal and withdraw from Egypt after a humiliating political and financial defeat. The crisis did not...

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Mohammad Amin Ahmadi

Terrorists in the West Bank: Settler violence and the excusing hand

Terrorists in the West Bank: Settler violence and the excusing hand

The persistent violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank has become such common fare it risks...

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

Gwadar in the Regional Energy Equation: Strategic Opportunity or Costly Promise for Pakistan?

Gwadar in the Regional Energy Equation: Strategic Opportunity or Costly Promise for Pakistan?

Marine bunkering services have begun at Gwadar. Meanwhile, according to reporting in June 2026, the proposed $10 billion Saudi refinery announced for...

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

Chile establishes Senate Friendship Group to strengthen historic ties with Palestine

Chile establishes Senate Friendship Group to strengthen historic ties with Palestine

Chile has taken a new step in strengthening its historic relationship with Palestine through the official establishment of the Chile–Palestine...

24.10.2026 80

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Eman Abusidu

Amnesty Indonesia is right, the Foreign Ministry is wrong: Quit Trump’s Board of Peace

Amnesty Indonesia is right, the Foreign Ministry is wrong: Quit Trump’s Board of Peace

On Thursday, Indonesia’s Foreign Ministry defended the country’s seat on the Board of Peace. Ministry spokesperson Vahd Nabyl Mulachela said...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

Pakistan can mediate between Washington and Tehran, but it cannot manufacture trust

Pakistan can mediate between Washington and Tehran, but it cannot manufacture trust

When Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan’s army chief, met Iranian leaders in Tehran last Tuesday, he heard a familiar message in a harder form....

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Mansoor Qaisar

Trump’s Iran pause is for November

Trump’s Iran pause is for November

President Trump’s pre-midterm pause on strikes against Iran landed as a claim of diplomatic momentum, not a concession of failure. The pause was...

24.10.2026 100

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Greg Pence

The new Arab bargain: When Egypt offers to protect Saudi Arabia

The new Arab bargain: When Egypt offers to protect Saudi Arabia

When Egyptian officials signalled their readiness to support Saudi Arabia against attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, the announcement was...

23.10.2026 60

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Karam Nama

Yemen’s peace process has a structural blind spot: The south’s political future

Yemen’s peace process has a structural blind spot: The south’s political future

Yemen’s prolonged conflict is frequently discussed through the familiar language of ceasefires, military de-escalation, humanitarian assistance and...

23.10.2026 60

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Saddam Obaid Yusr Al-Zubaidi

Iran’s new military doctrine is designed to make victory meaningless

Iran’s new military doctrine is designed to make victory meaningless

Iran’s latest military doctrine rests on a dangerous proposition: a country does not have to defeat a superior enemy on the battlefield to deny it a...

23.10.2026 70

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Ronny P Sasmita

A Cable across Contested Waters: The Great Sea Interconnector’s Promise and Risks

A Cable across Contested Waters: The Great Sea Interconnector’s Promise and Risks

A seabed survey is usually an engineering step. For the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), it has become a test of how far Greece, Cyprus and Türkiye...

23.10.2026 90

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Dr Umud Shokri

Israeli elections and the limits of change

Israeli elections and the limits of change

Israel’s forthcoming elections on 27th October, the first since the events of 7th October three years ago and their aftermath, are taking place amid...

23.10.2026 70

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The failed humanitarian paradigm exposes governments’ complicity in violence

The failed humanitarian paradigm exposes governments’ complicity in violence

The international community prefers not to address the fact that violence poses a permanent threat to food security and, as a result, to any...

22.10.2026 100

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Ramona Wadi

Macron was right, and the scapegoats were chosen

Macron was right, and the scapegoats were chosen

Emmanuel Macron’s phrase landed like a cracked whip in the stale air of Western politics. “As unacceptable as they are stupid.” The target was...

22.10.2026 100

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

Why Indonesia joined the Badr pact, and what it must do next

Why Indonesia joined the Badr pact, and what it must do next

On Wednesday, 21st  October, four Muslim-majority countries signed a new defence agreement in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Turkiye, Qatar, Pakistan...

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Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat

After Mecca, why Badr? Because this pact builds, not binds

After Mecca, why Badr? Because this pact builds, not binds

Within hours of the ink drying in Doha, the label arrived: another “Muslim NATO.” It is the wrong label for the wrong agreement. On Wednesday,...

22.10.2026 100

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Mansoor Qaisar

Trump’s Iran war is on an Israeli leash

Trump’s Iran war is on an Israeli leash

On October 21, the Financial Times reported that Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed his military to prepare a multi-day bombing campaign against Iran...

22.10.2026 150

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Dr. Sara Neumann

The empty stadium illusion: Why banning Israeli fans is not enough

The empty stadium illusion: Why banning Israeli fans is not enough

The stadium is empty, but Israel is still in the game. Though any form of isolation of those responsible for genocide is welcome, the growing movement...

22.10.2026 100

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Dr Ramzy Baroud

Dead for fifteen years, yet Gaddafi still shapes political debate in a divided Libya

Dead for fifteen years, yet Gaddafi still shapes political debate in a divided Libya

Two days ago, on 20 October, Gaddafi’s supporters marked the fifteenth anniversary of his death. Killed and hurriedly buried in a secret grave whose...

22.10.2026 150

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Dr Mustafa Fetouri

Gaza’s fragile internet lifeline: Nattat’s battle to keep his neighbourhood connected

Gaza’s fragile internet lifeline: Nattat’s battle to keep his neighbourhood connected

For Ali Nattat, the day begins with a look at the sky. In Gaza, the sunlight falling on his solar panels determines whether he can keep his...

21.10.2026 150

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Rami Ruhmi

When Israeli Jewish mob terror makes Western headlines

When Israeli Jewish mob terror makes Western headlines

Twice recently, Israeli Jewish mob terror in the occupied West Bank broke through the international media’s wall of self-censorship: first, when the...

21.10.2026 90

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Jamal Kanj

Building digital resilience: Qatar, Iraq and the new Gulf–Europe fibre corridor

Building digital resilience: Qatar, Iraq and the new Gulf–Europe fibre corridor

Qatar’s Ooredoo is working to establish a new data route from the Persian Gulf to Turkiye and Europe through Iraq. On 7th October 2026, its...

21.10.2026 100

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Dr Umud Shokri

Revived Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline could introduce new dynamics in the politics of the Middle East

Revived Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline could introduce new dynamics in the politics of the Middle East

Israel has proposed reviving the Ashkelon-Eilat pipeline to divert oil cargo away from the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandeb in the Red Sea. The...

21.10.2026 100

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Thembisa Fakude

Olive theft is just one component of Israel’s colonial structure

Olive theft is just one component of Israel’s colonial structure

Observations have become the only way in which the UN feigns intervention against Israeli colonial violence. A recent press release published by the...

20.10.2026 80

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Ramona Wadi

The unravelling alliance – when Israel’s interests clash with America’s

The unravelling alliance – when Israel’s interests clash with America’s

The relationship between the United States and Israel has long been presented as an alliance founded on shared democratic values, strategic interests...

20.10.2026 90

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Ranjan Solomon

Egyptians do not trust General El-Sisi’s promises

Egyptians do not trust General El-Sisi’s promises

Egyptians had barely begun to take comfort in President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s pledge not to tamper with the Constitution and his assurance that...

20.10.2026 200

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Mahmoud Hassan

Trump can strike Iran again. He cannot bomb Hormuz open

Trump can strike Iran again. He cannot bomb Hormuz open

A navy can control water. It can’t make a merchant captain sail through it. Warships stop missiles, sure, but no admiral can promise a shipping...

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Mansoor Qaisar

When diplomacy arrived in Jakarta and justice did not

When diplomacy arrived in Jakarta and justice did not

The paradox has acquired a second dimension, and it is written in the ruins of Gaza. Indonesia, a nation that presents itself to the world as a rising...

19.10.2026 100

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

From TAPI to CASA-1000: How can Afghanistan benefit from energy corridors?

From TAPI to CASA-1000: How can Afghanistan benefit from energy corridors?

In Herat, construction on the TAPI pipeline is advancing, raising questions about when local businesses and households might receive its gas....

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Dr Kamran Yeganegi

The very stable genius, nine years later

The very stable genius, nine years later

In January 2018, after a book questioned his mental fitness, the president of the United States sat down and wrote his own diagnosis. “My two...

19.10.2026 70

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Jasim Al-Azzawi

Trump, Epstein, and the Netanyahu endorsement: The strange standards of Western shame

Trump, Epstein, and the Netanyahu endorsement: The strange standards of Western shame

There is something magnificently obscene about a civilization that treats association with a sex trafficker as a moral scandal but endorsement of a...

19.10.2026 90

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Junaid S. Ahmad

What a Somali-British MP Reveals About Europe’s Hijab Obsession

What a Somali-British MP Reveals About Europe’s Hijab Obsession

What would George Orwell make of today’s debates over identity, integration, and the Muslim veil in Europe? It is an impossible question, of course....

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Karam Nama

Overland lifelines under pressure: Iran’s trade with its neighbours

Overland lifelines under pressure: Iran’s trade with its neighbours

Iran is turning to its land borders for ways to keep trade moving as the U.S. naval blockade constrains shipping. But these routes are best seen as a...

19.10.2026 150

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Dr Umud Shokri

The language of extermination: NAZA, Artificial Intelligence and Gaza

The language of extermination: NAZA, Artificial Intelligence and Gaza

The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening.  It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces...

18.10.2026 100

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Dr Binoy Kampmark

If Anne Frank were alive today

If Anne Frank were alive today

Anne Frank would be 97 years old if she were alive in 2026. We know that her life was cut short by the German Gestapo. Bergen-Belsen concentration...

18.10.2026 100

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Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam

Israel’s election: The Arab vote and Netanyahu’s politics of exclusion

Israel’s election: The Arab vote and Netanyahu’s politics of exclusion

Mansour Abbas is offering Israel a practical demonstration that Arabs and Jews can share responsibility for their country. Benjamin Netanyahu presents...

17.10.2026 200

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Dr Egemen Bağış

Beyond oil: The Gulf crisis is becoming a food security crisis

Beyond oil: The Gulf crisis is becoming a food security crisis

Ask most people what the Gulf crisis will cost the world and they will say oil. Fair enough. Prices are the part we can watch every morning. But the...

17.10.2026 200

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Mansoor Qaisar

Why Ethiopia and Eritrea’s march to war demands global attention

The distant thunder of drones over Adigrat is not merely another African conflict. It is the sound of a continent’s most fragile peace...

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Kurniawan Arif Maspul

The Yemen trap: Why Saudi Arabia should reject Israel’s help

If reports are true that Benjamin Netanyahu tried to offer Israeli involvement on Saudi Arabia’s side in the war in Yemen, this should not be read...

16.10.2026 90

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Tamer Ajrami

Coercive diplomacy: What does the call between Netanyahu and al-Sharaa really mean?

The phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa—following months of firing salvos via...

16.10.2026 100

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Karam Nama

Diplomats to MEMO: Colombia’s ICJ withdrawal reflects alignment with US

Colombia’s decision to withdraw from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), followed by the...

16.10.2026 250

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Eman Abusidu

Why a new US–Israeli war against Iran could carry enormous risks

In recent days, three developments have emerged as key preliminary indicators that the US may be preparing to step up its military campaign against...

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Saied Reza Ameli

From Hormuz to Bab el-Mandeb: Saudi Arabia’s difficult choices

Developments in Yemen today cannot be separated from the repercussions of the war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran. The prolonged...

16.10.2026 80

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Dr Sania Faisal El-Husseini

The international community does not object to permanent forced displacement

Mere days after Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered a detailed plan for the return of over 33,000 Palestinians forcibly displaced by Israeli...

15.10.2026 100

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Ramona Wadi