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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...
When it comes to asylum seekers, the Australian political machine has prided itself on using cruelty and a purposely obtuse understanding of...
As the war in Gaza continues to devastate Palestinian life, and the ongoing confrontation involving Iran, Israel, and the United States deepens...
Joe Kent’s resignation is not an anomaly but an alarm: elite dissent is surfacing early because this war is built on deception. Joe Kent’s...
The EU yesterday confirmed €458 million in humanitarian aid for Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Palestine will receive €124 million...
On 11 March 2026 two statements emerged from the international system that together reveal more about contemporary diplomacy than any solemn lecture...
The closure of virtually all commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz occasioned by the Iran War is not merely a matter of oil and gas, the...
The war in Iran did not begin with a missile strike or a declaration. It began in the sweltering August of 1953, in the offices of a CIA operative...
Minutes before iftar, Mamdouh A. (45) and his neighbour Sayed A. (63) were fatally shot during Ramadan following the renewal of a blood feud between...
When Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched their military aggression against Iran on 28th February, they appeared convinced that the war would...
Donald Trump’s confrontation with Iran appears to have been built on a fundamental misreading of the country he chose to confront. The assumption in...
Persian proverb goes, ‘A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.’ True to that maxim, Iran has...
President Trump is not only failing to learn from history. He is also failing to learn from what is happening right now. This was not a small tactical...
No modern state has suffered as much as Iraq in trying to define the meaning of sovereignty since 2003. Here, “sovereignty” is not a...
Israel has not formally declared the annexation of the occupied West Bank. No dramatic parliamentary vote has proclaimed sovereignty over the...
For decades, American foreign policy was built on a hybrid of realism, self -interest and idealism. Today, it is being rebuilt on the hallucinatory...
The big drain on military resources has begun. A war apparently already won (and not), against an adversary supposedly without means to fight back,...
The escalating confrontation between Iran on one side and the United States and Israel on the other is often framed in familiar strategic language:...
The United States and Israel did not stumble into war with Iran. They were driven into it — by the relentless drumbeat of political rhetoric, by...
Indonesia condemned Israel’s closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during this Ramadan with the language it has used for decades: strong rejection,...
As war spreads across the Persian Gulf, the first tremors are felt in oil markets. The deeper shock may come later — in the foundations of the...
War is not a violation of the international order. For a select few, it is the international order working exactly as intended; a machine that...
Israel’s blanket evacuation orders for Dahiyeh and southern Lebanon breach the core safeguards of Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 49) which...
After the 12-day war in May last year, it was clear that both sides would be face-to-face soon. They restarted on 28th February 2026. Israel-US...
Every year, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, millions of people around the world mobilise to mark the International Day of Al-Quds,...
In the dark corridors of the United States’ power and politics, where morality is starkly traded for profit, and human lives are calculated as...
“The geopolitical genie is out of the bottle: by capitalizing on geography to disrupt global trade, countries can strengthen their strategic...
War rarely begins with a single event. More often than not, it emerges from years of mounting tensions, failed diplomacy and strategic...
In mid-February 2026, Senator Lindsey Graham stood before cameras in Tel Aviv and delivered what he called one of his ‘most consequential messages...
Indicators are mounting that the world is heading toward an era of multipolarity, signaling the twilight of the age of singular American hegemony and...
Settler violence in the occupied West Bank is unacceptable, the EU and the UK stated yesterday. “Impunity for such acts risks provoking further...
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