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Donald Trump is not negotiating with Iran. He is negotiating with the humiliation of having failed to break it. Beneath the ceasefires, memoranda,...
History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it...
Sophocles put it in four words the Chorus never had to repeat: “Pride breeds the tyrant.” Twenty-five centuries later, two men who believe...
The Father Emir is gone. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who died on Sunday at 74, was the architect of modern Qatar. But that description, however...
There is a seductive myth that China and Iran are allies bound by blood and ideology, that Beijing would ride to Tehran’s rescue the way NATO would...
For more than a decade, Yemen has been viewed primarily through the lens of a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Tehran’s support for the...
For decades, energy diplomacy in the region has been understood through three familiar dimensions: geography, natural resources and infrastructure....
When Massad Boulos, the US President’s Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs, chooses to meet senior Libyan officials from both East and West...
At certain moments, a person transcends the self, and their voice becomes the voice of an entire community. This is precisely what is happening today...
Humanitarian aid is a failed paradigm, be it the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees or the Board of Peace’s scheming. UNRWA has...
The meticulously disorganised 250th anniversary of American independence was branded as the dawn of a new ‘golden age ’, with the...
Nations do not usually commit suicide in one spectacular act. They do it by acquiring a taste for poison and calling it policy. They rename moral...
While the world’s attention has been consumed by the Iran war, the fragile Lebanon ceasefire, and Trump’s reality show — AKA the “Board of...
The Trump–al‑Sharaa summit in Ankara was not diplomacy. It was a structural detonation—one that has dragged Syria out of humanitarian paralysis...
Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes...
Can Lebanon extract a genuine, equitable peace from the 26th June Trilateral Framework Agreement (TFA)? The simple answer is yes, but that “yes”...
A major showdown on the House floor seemed imminent. An amendment, advanced by the Rules Committee, was poised to force a rare and telling record vote...
Fifteen-year-old Palestinian student Tala Mohammed Awad, a survivor of Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, has won a gold medal in the second...
What does it mean for Donald Trump to choose Ankara—politically and geographically the closest major capital to Iran—to declare that the...
As Iran prepares for the funeral ceremonies of Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the former Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, the scale of...
In politics, words are not changed for no reason. When a policy becomes too costly morally, legally, or internationally, states do not always abandon...
Whether Israelis will ever comprehend the irreparable damage inflicted upon their country’s reputation by their UN Ambassador, Danny Danon, is a...
Counter-Terrorism Service sealed every entrance to Baghdad’s Green Zone and moved with military precision through the residential compounds within....
The justice system of the United Kingdom, represented by stout cathedral structures and solemn rituals, tends to resemble a casino rather than a...
The 14-point U.S.-brokered framework signed in Washington on June 26 is being presented as a way to end the immediate fighting between Lebanon and...
The post-February 2026 war period marks a new phase in US–Iran relationship, a relationship of strange diplomatic impasse characterized by no war,...
“Another principle of the government, of the broad national government that I intend to lead, is that there is no room for two states. Between the...
The major geopolitical confrontations of our time have entered a phase that can only be described as zero‑sum exhaustion—a stage in which no actor...
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