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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...
The Al-Quds Day has been commemorate for almost 50 years on the last Friday of Ramadan, around the world. Can you tell us more about the London, the...
Opposing a war on Iran is not an emotional stance, nor is it an alignment with Tehran’s theocratic regime—a regime that has been cruel enough to...
As the region continues to endure the escalating Israeli-American war against Iran, international calls to halt the confrontation are growing louder....
On the morning of 28th February, I woke to an emergency alert telling everyone in Qatar to stay indoors. Moments later came the sounds, blasts,...
General Dan Cain, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a private warning to President Trump with the bluntness that democracies depend...
In international politics, starting a war is often easier than ending one. History has repeatedly shown that great powers can pull the trigger with a...
When people from abroad ask me what’s going on with Trump’s second term, I tell them that he is unlike other US presidents who were strongly...
If you are not paying attention to the dramatic developments between China and the United States, you must understand that something consequential has...
The new round of conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran is not a distant story confined to the Middle East. It carries immediate risks...
Humanitarian aid for Palestinians has always been a macabre game which the international community has played so well, to the point that aid and death...
The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While...
The Middle East stands again at the lip of an abyss, and the tremor is not regional – it is global. The reported killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader...
In the complex landscape of international politics, consistency of principle often forms the foundation of a leader’s moral authority. For Ukrainian...
As Lebanon approaches parliamentary elections in May 2026, the country stands at a crossroads. Hizballah, the mighty image of Lebanese politics and...
The martyrdom of Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei does not represent the end of an era, but the transformation of the Islamic Revolution into an even deeper,...
The Iranian dictator is dead, his repressive regime is being bombed into submission, and now the world can look forward to peace and stability. It...
For three days now, Iran has been under sustained bombardment. American and Israeli military power — long rehearsed through sanctions, covert...
Indonesia’s recent offer to mediate between Washington and Tehran might sound ambitious — but numerous factors suggest it is aspirational optics...
February 28, 2026. Another attack, another breach of the United Nations Charter. A gross violation of international law. As usual, a violation...
The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint United States–Israeli strikes has torn a hole not only through Iran’s leadership, but through the...
An earlier version of this article was completed a day before the joint Israeli-American war against Iran. The gist of it examined the likely...
The strike on Tehran was not just another exchange in the long shadow war between Israel and Iran. It was a precision operation timed to coincide with...
Many mistakenly believed — or preferred to believe — that President Donald Trump disliked war, or that he was practising some form of covert...
While President Trump cast the opening salvo against Iran as an act of defence—insisting the strikes were necessary “to defend the American people...
Many in the United States would scarcely identify the difference between Iran and Iraq, both countries based on ancient civilisations so...
The uneasy negotiations between the United States and Iran are unfolding under the shadow of a long historical truth: great-power systems rarely...
The United States has turned the talks with Iran upside down. What is happening now does not look like serious negotiations. It looks more like a way...
What is unfolding today between Iraq and Kuwait reopens a wound that never fully healed. Once again, geography is being subjected to political...
There are moments when the edifice of propaganda collapses, when the images of emaciated children, pulverised neighbourhoods, and mass graves pierce...
Over the past month, events in the region have escalated and expanded significantly, as Israel and the United States attempt to establish new control...
Earlier this month, Palestinian footballers, clubs and rights groups submitted a 120-page file to the International Criminal Court accusing FIFA...
While the third round of Iran-US talks is scheduled to be held today, 26th February, with the mediation of Oman at the country’s residence in...
It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible. When a text advocating...
Not long after the reciprocal trade agreement between Indonesia and the United States was signed by President Prabowo Subianto and President Donald...
Over the past two years, millions have voiced their solidarity with Palestine, many of whom had never done so before. This support has helped...
When negotiators gather in Geneva on Thursday for the third round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States, the most consequential item in...
At the inaugural Board of Peace meeting in Washington, President Prabowo Subianto pledged that Indonesia would send 8,000 or more troops to join an...
When British author David Icke wrote his seminal work, The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World, published in 1999, he was not speaking...
For decades, American military planners have operated on a simple assumption: that overwhelming force, applied decisively, could resolve almost any...
A joint report released recently by Forensic Architecture and Earshot reconstructs Israel’s massacre of aid workers in March 2025. Commencing with...
In a world where eating has become a solitary act, snatched quickly in front of a screen or in the corner of an office, Ramadan arrives to restore the...
When a sitting United States ambassador declares that it would be “fine if they took it all,” diplomacy does not merely slip — it crosses a...
The ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran, mediated by Oman and recently held in Geneva, have been presented by Western diplomacy as...