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Observations have become the only way in which the UN feigns intervention against Israeli colonial violence. A recent press release published by the...
The relationship between the United States and Israel has long been presented as an alliance founded on shared democratic values, strategic interests...
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...
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...
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...
In Herat, construction on the TAPI pipeline is advancing, raising questions about when local businesses and households might receive its gas....
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...
There is something magnificently obscene about a civilization that treats association with a sex trafficker as a moral scandal but endorsement of a...
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....
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...
The 80-minute documentary NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is chastening. It examines the conduct of the Israeli Defence Forces...
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...
Mansour Abbas is offering Israel a practical demonstration that Arabs and Jews can share responsibility for their country. Benjamin Netanyahu presents...
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...
The distant thunder of drones over Adigrat is not merely another African conflict. It is the sound of a continent’s most fragile peace...
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...
The phone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa—following months of firing salvos via...
Colombia’s decision to withdraw from South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), followed by the...
In recent days, three developments have emerged as key preliminary indicators that the US may be preparing to step up its military campaign against...
Developments in Yemen today cannot be separated from the repercussions of the war waged by the United States and Israel against Iran. The prolonged...
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...
The Gulf has spent decades buying security from the world’s most powerful military. American bases dot the region, advanced weapons fill its...
Azerbaijani oil passes through Turkiye to Israel, its gas reaches European markets, and Emirati and Saudi capital finances its power plants. This...
President Trump has promised that the United States will not attack Iran before the 3rd November midterm elections. That statement sounds like...
This week, something happened in Britain that should worry every reader, every writer and everyone who believes in free speech. Faber, the publisher...
Espionage novels portray the spy as a person in a trench coat carrying stolen documents and disappearing into a dark alley. Israeli spy, Jonathan...
There is something profoundly vile about discriminating against women and policing their bodies in the name of secularism. Dictating what a woman...
The Green Party has put the conversation back on track: the problem is not the lack of creative solutions to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The...
According to the Trump administration, there is a ceasefire in Gaza, since 10th October 2025. This would suggest that no firing is going on, nobody is...
Opinion polls in Israel tell us many things, but they do not tell the whole story. Sometimes Netanyahu’s bloc appears close to returning to power....
When I entered Gaza through the crossing, I was shocked and stunned by what I saw. Looking to my right and left, all the houses were destroyed,...
The latest diplomatic deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz exposes the central problem in the US–Iran confrontation: Washington wants concessions from...
Nothing spells hypocrisy more accurately than the UN commemorating its failures. In a press release titled One year after ceasefire announcement,...
Dr Muhammad Al Jasser, chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, spent four days in Jakarta, from 7 to 10 October 2026. The IsDB is a...
The struggle of Gaza’s people is frequently interpreted through the competing languages of security, nationalism, religion and geopolitics. Each...
Few pieces of land carry as much weight as the 12 square kilometres known as E1. It is an unremarkable stretch of hillside on a map, but for critics...
On Friday, President Trump described his phone call with Vladimir Putin as “highly successful.” By Monday, oil traders had reason to agree. Kyiv...
The recent attacks on Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, particularly the strikes against King Khalid International Airport, represent a significant...
Not all political corruption begins with money. Sometimes, it begins with success. Public imagination has long been trained to look for corruption in...
With thousands of buildings damaged and the punishing winter fast approaching, displaced Palestinians sheltering inside Gaza’s ruins face two bitter...
The white ihram garments of Umrah pilgrims, stained crimson on the departure concourse of King Khalid International Airport. That image, seared into...
The rhetoric of “existential threat” has become the dominant currency of political legitimacy in both Israel and Europe. In Israel, this rhetoric...
On 8 October, 2026, Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, announced that the British Consulate General in Jerusalem “ceases operations...
Three weeks before Michigan decides whether to send the first Muslim senator to Washington, the president still cannot or will not say the man’s...
Saudi Arabia can afford a long war. It can buy aircraft, missiles, drones, air-defense systems and intelligence. It can absorb losses that would...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi landed in Jakarta on Saturday evening, 10 October 2026, at the end of an Asian tour that began in South Korea...
In a mountainous area of Yemen, solar-powered pumps changed how families obtained water. Households that had spent hours collecting it gained access...
By Mansoor Qaisar, Islamabad When Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye signed the Makkah Alliance for Defence in August, most of us read it as a...
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has exposed two political universes: a South Africa that defies imperial power and Israeli impunity, and a nuclear-armed...
They are a trying lot, spruiking their overvalued, loss-making firms, sowing discord and fear, and then seeking state collaboration that will serve to...