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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...
Indonesian diplomat Aloysius Selwas Taborat recently responded to our article titled “Indonesia’s cabinet secretary is sanitizing genocide in...
While most international analysis remains focused on the implications of the U.S.-Israeli escalation against Iran —from deterrence to the risk of a...
The war began with airstrikes and missiles. But the turning point may come from the economy. In this fight, Iran is trying to win by raising the cost,...
The concept of a false flag operation, though often dismissed as the stuff of thrillers, is a recognised tactic in security studies and international...
Over the past ten days, West Asia has been engulfed in a conflict whose consequences are already rippling far beyond the battlefields. After the...
Let us imagine a liberated Palestine. Let us consider how justice for the Palestinian people would reshape not only the region but, indeed, the entire...
The “real” chances of a nuclear hit-back from Israel, driven by desperation in an existential crisis, are generally considered low due to...
It is well known that Christian fundamentalists in the United States are among Israel’s most important supporters. It is also widely recognised that...
Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” is one of those concepts polite society cherishes because it flatters the audience. It reassures comfortable...
Since the night Israeli warplanes struck Tehran and killed senior Iranian officials, the region has lurched from retaliation to rupture — missiles...
When Caroline Levitt says that the United States is “steadily moving toward control of Iranian airspace” within four to six weeks, she is talking...
The explosions now echoing across Iran, Lebanon, and parts of the Gulf are not merely the sounds of another Middle Eastern war. They also reflect a...
The infamous Epstein files do not merely pulse with the sordid details of one man’s depravity; they are the autopsy report of a dying moral order....
Donald Trump has made the “America First” doctrine central to his political campaign and presidency. His presidency has been presented as a...
International Women’s Day is often marked by speeches about equality and symbolic gestures celebrating women’s progress. But these rituals ring...
The Arab Gulf states today find themselves in one of the most uncomfortable strategic positions in modern Middle Eastern politics. They are neither...
What do the US Congress, Nicolás Maduro, the riots in Iran, Jeffrey Epstein, and the destruction of Syria have in common? Zionism and Israel have...
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the central figure in the country’s political and religious...
There is a dangerous, academic notion currently haunting the halls of Washington and Tel Aviv: the idea that a fractured Iran, carved into a...
Villainous lunacy is abundant these days as the bombing of Iran by Israel and the United States continues. The rationale for this illegal...
The escalating confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran is often interpreted through the narrow prism of security threats, nuclear...
Nickolay Mladenov, former UN Special Coordinator for Middle East Affairs and now High Representative for the Board of Peace, is no stranger to...