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When will Israel realise that invading Lebanon with paralytic compulsion can never be the solution to its security ills? Having destroyed Gaza with...
The war consuming the Middle East is, at its core, a zero-sum contest between two incompatible survival imperatives. Israel’s long-term security, as...
On February 28, 2026, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in an operation U.S. President Donald Trump said was carried out in...
“This is not incidental violence. It is the architecture of settler-colonialism, built on a foundation of dehumanisation and maintained by a policy...
On 26 March, the most revealing development in this war was not another missile barrage. It was the report that Pakistan had urged Washington to...
The Indonesian government’s plan to implement a one-day-a-week Work From Home (WFH) policy for civil servants following the 2026 Eid holidays...
Lying is as much a part of statecraft as it is of human nature. History is littered with deceptions—some confessed, others concealed—employed by...
The statement issued by the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, announcing the summoning of the US chargé d’affaires and...
For months, a war has been unfolding across Iraq with little of the fanfare that once accompanied American military campaigns in the region. There are...
The escalation of hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran in February 2026 represents one of the most significant geopolitical crises...
I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see themselves...
When a man with an active arrest warrant for war crimes stands at a podium and explains that ‘Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis...
When tensions escalate between Iran and the United States, attention usually turns to the Gulf, Israel, maritime routes, and oil markets. But that...
With the Strait of Hormuz now effectively disrupted, the world is entering a new phase of energy insecurity. For Indonesia, the consequences are not...
The laziest word in Western commentary on Iran is not “theocracy,” “proxy,” or even “threat.” It is “hardliner.” Its compulsory twin,...
When tensions escalate between Iran and the United States, attention usually turns to the Gulf, Israel, maritime routes, and oil markets. But that...
The most exalted UN creation – the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – is being isolated by the UN. While Israel destroyed...
It’s almost not worth considering, but precisely because it comes from the White House, the mad manoeuvrings and silly airings of the US President...
The conflict between two opposing forces ends when one of them decisively loses or gains in power. Faced with the horror of the occupation’s...
US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase “fake news,” but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, relentlessly accusing...
Understanding the crisis Since 2023, Tunisia’s education system has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, grade boycotts, and escalating...
The question sounds simple, but it goes beyond “military retaliation”. Why would Iran hit Gulf countries while saying its real enemies are the...
There is something tragic about the present moment, a theatre of contradictions staged around the attack on Iran, so brazen that one is tempted to...
When the United States and Israel struck Tehran in late February, Jakarta’s response was conspicuously muted, echoing the unusually quiet corridors...
By any reasonable standard, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s latest clarification should have settled the matter. Indonesia, he now insists,...
The first instinct of a discredited regime is not to answer dissent but to classify it. Name the dissenter. Isolate the constituency. Shrink the...
The recent Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field was a calculated move to deepen American entanglement, and provoke a direct confrontation...
Iran’s missile strike near Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility on Saturday night was more than a dramatic escalation in the shadow war between the...
The warning issued by Iran—that desalination infrastructure across the Gulf could become a target if conflict escalates—must not be dismissed as...
Three weeks into the war, Donald Trump finds himself trapped in a conflict of his own making. What was framed as a campaign of rapid...
The wording is familiar. The urgency is always absolute. The implication is unmistakable: Israel is not choosing war. It is forced into it. For many,...
The Nowruz greeting Vladimir Putin sent to Iran’s leadership and people is little more than a seasonal postcard—politically meaningless in a...
Joe Kent, the now former US Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, always seemed a bit off, especially to liberals. As a combat veteran...
Indonesia’s plan to deploy peacekeeping forces to the Gaza Strip, once heralded as a landmark moment in the country’s military diplomacy, has now...
The war in the Gulf has entered a decisive phase. Six months from now, the strategic landscape will look markedly different, shaped not only by the...
On 28th February, 2026, the US and Israel launched what they called Operation ‘Epic Fury’ and ‘Roaring Lion’ respectively, to destroy Iran’s...
With each dragged out day, President Donald Trump begins resembling a mad emperor who has not only taken leave of his senses but leave of everything...
Twenty days into the escalating confrontation involving Iran, the United States and Israel, it has become increasingly clear that this is not merely a...
How do you bomb a country “without mercy”—and end up strengthening it? When US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared that Washington would...
The current situation in the Middle East cannot be understood as a mere military escalation or a sequence of isolated confrontations. It represents a...
For all Palestine, particularly Gaza, is reduced to visibility or invisibility depending on how it best serves the Israeli and Western narratives, the...
The United States today finds itself ensnared in a war it cannot win, yet cannot leave. What appears, at first glance, as a familiar display of...
These nights in Tehran the sound of fighter jets has become part of everyday life. Explosions echo across the city at irregular intervals and the...
Several years ago, I asked a senior Omani scholar a question that has puzzled many in the Arab world: why does Muscat maintain such deep mutual trust...
It is not only European political leaders who have submitted to the American empire and its erratic emperor, Trump. Established media outlets are also...
War is the last refuge of failing states, but in Pakistan it often seems to be the first hobby of men who confuse uniforms with omniscience. When...
In recent days, the first publicly reported meeting between Hamas representatives and President Trump’s newly established Board of Peace (BoP)...
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring...
It is a strange moment when a nonviolent act of conscience—refusing to buy a burger, skipping a cup of coffee—draws more concern from public...
In February, Ali Larijani shuttled between Muscat and Doha as part of the diplomatic channel between Iran and the United States. On 18 March, Iran...
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