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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...