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Turkiye steps up dual-track strategy with its neighbors

Turkiye steps up dual-track strategy with its neighbors

Since 2011, Turkiye’s relations with neighboring Syria and Iraq have been strained. However, 2024 was a milestone in its ties with both countries....

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Israeli voters have opened the door to political change

Israeli voters have opened the door to political change

At first glance, the results of this week’s Israeli general election may seem puzzling. Two figures, in particular, could give the wrong impression....

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The selective solidarity at the heart of India’s voter protests

The selective solidarity at the heart of India’s voter protests

Across India, opposition parties, students and farmers are protesting against a sweeping revision of electoral rolls that has removed some 130 million...

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Palestinian citizens of Israel have redrawn the political landscape

Palestinian citizens of Israel have redrawn the political landscape

Dr. Dania Koleilat Khatib Most of the votes are counted in Israel’s parliamentary election and there is no clear winner. It is obvious that neither...

29.10.2026 20

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Credibility and legitimacy of the UN is at stake amid failure to confront Houthi threat

Credibility and legitimacy of the UN is at stake amid failure to confront Houthi threat

The UN has so far failed to take tangible, decisive action to halt the escalating campaign of violence by the Houthis in Yemen and across the wider...

29.10.2026 20

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Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but cannot expect change

Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but cannot expect change

For the majority of Israelis, the general election on October 27 is a choice between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the forces that oppose him,...

27.10.2026 20

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French fires could engulf the arsonists

French fires could engulf the arsonists

Watching the mass protests unfold across France, one wonders who is not trying to exploit the social unrest there. The cliche that France since 1789...

27.10.2026 20

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The French government is hiding behind a ‘riots’ narrative

The French government is hiding behind a ‘riots’ narrative

Images from the violent unrest in France have travelled around the world. Smashed shop windows, destroyed property, acts of looting and raging fires...

26.10.2026 20

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Lula’s victory may be a turning point for Latin America

Lula’s victory may be a turning point for Latin America

At 80, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pulled off an extraordinary political victory. After losing the first round to Flavio Bolsonaro, son of...

26.10.2026 20

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Building the economy Africa needs

Building the economy Africa needs

As geopolitical tensions reshape the world economy, Africa faces a choice: it can allow itself to be carried along by events into an uncertain future...

25.10.2026 20

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A unity govt in Israel means political paralysis

A unity govt in Israel means political paralysis

Reports in the Israeli press suggest that President Isaac Herzog is seeking to promote a Netanyahu-Eisenkot national unity government after next...

24.10.2026 20

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When peace and development came to the same table

When peace and development came to the same table

Thursday, October 22, may well be remembered as a significant day in the recent history of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In a province where years of political...

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US must incorporate Houthi threat into its Iran strategy

US must incorporate Houthi threat into its Iran strategy

The intensification of Houthi military operations across Yemen and into Saudi Arabia in recent weeks highlights the need for a more decisive element...

22.10.2026 10

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Russia can help in containing the Iran war

Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg The Gulf Cooperation Council-Russia Strategic Dialogue, held in Bahrain on Sunday, was an opportunity to discuss regional...

22.10.2026 40

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Europe is in trouble, and it is blaming Muslims

As protests in France turned violent late last week, the French far right quickly resorted to racist language to blame the Muslim youth for the...

22.10.2026 40

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Moscow warms to the Taliban, and Pakistan loses leverage

The changing tone of the Moscow Format on Afghanistan is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. What began as a regional diplomatic mechanism...

20.10.2026 40

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Israel’s election will not deliver a change in course

One of the most extraordinary features of the current Israeli election campaign is just how little Israeli politics has changed. We have largely the...

20.10.2026 30

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Losing Cuba, the global trickster

Mario Reinaldo Machado Cuba is once again in the United States’s crosshairs. Washington’s operation in Venezuela at the start of the year is...

19.10.2026 20

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Israel is still in the game

The stadium is empty but Israel is still in the game. Though any form of isolation of those responsible for genocide is welcome, the growing movement...

19.10.2026 30

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Netanyahu’s latest ‘warning’ is a sign of desperation

It is never a good sign when a country’s leader, on the eve of an election, appears at a military base and speaks of signs that unspecified enemies...

18.10.2026 20

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Egypt enters the war

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Egypt had long been expected to join the Gulf front in confronting Iran and its proxies in Iraq and Yemen. This is, after all, a...

18.10.2026 40

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Pakistan’s Middle East calculus: Defender or mediator?

Pakistan’s role in Middle Eastern security entered a new phase when it signed a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement with Saudi Arabia in September...

18.10.2026 30

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Kaja Kallas: Europe’s diplomatic power and a defining role in principled politics

In global politics, some positions are symbols of power. Others expose a more fundamental question: how should power be exercised? Kaja Kallas, the...

17.10.2026 20

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Lai’s agenda digresses from path to peace

The debate over “maintaining the status quo” in Taiwan has intensified this year, particularly after a statement by US President Donald Trump....

15.10.2026 30

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Houthis’ weapon supply lines must be cut

Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg The growing number of attacks by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia is fueled by the large stock of missiles and drones...

15.10.2026 20

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Why UK Greens’ ‘Zionism is racism’ vote matters

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...

14.10.2026 20

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Saudi Arabia’s national spirit in the face of Houthi attacks

The recent Houthi attacks on Saudi civilian airports, which have left a number of people dead or injured and caused the temporary closures of King...

14.10.2026 20

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Pakistan has locked down Imran Khan’s stronghold – but it could backfire

Schools closed. The internet partially shut. Roads blocked by shipping containers. And the army arriving in town. Imran Khan’s party stronghold,...

14.10.2026 30

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The escalation in Yemen is a turning point

Yemen is witnessing a major military escalation that has once again brought the western coast and the area around the Bab al-Mandeb strait to the...

13.10.2026 20

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Liberman revives the ‘Jordan option’ for the West Bank

Avigdor Liberman, the head of Israel’s Yisrael Beiteinu party, last month told a Hebrew-language podcast that Jordan should take security and...

13.10.2026 30

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Jordan’s patience with Israel is wearing thin

In a world in which Israel is losing friends and allies at a pace that should concern every Israeli, the wrath of Jordan’s King Abdullah, as...

11.10.2026 40

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The Houthis have crossed every red line

How many civilians must be killed before the world stops treating the Houthi militia as a political actor that can be managed through statements and...

11.10.2026 30

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A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing

When the “ceasefire” was announced on October 10 last year, we knew how much needed repairing. For the first time in a long while, we thought we...

10.10.2026 30

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With or without Hamas

As we begin the fourth year of a war that has brought the near-total destruction of Gaza, calls for Hamas to surrender administrative authority and...

10.10.2026 20

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Bosnia’s political future looks increasingly like its past

The latest general elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on October 4, repeated a pattern familiar from most electoral contests over the past...

08.10.2026 30

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The war and elusive hopes of peace in Yemen

Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg On Sunday, Yemeni President Rashad Al-Alimi announced the start of major operations to retake the areas of the country...

08.10.2026 40

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Mixed signals won’t help mend Sino-Japanese relations

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants credit for being open to talks with China while, at the same time, maintaining a tougher security posture...

07.10.2026 30

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Oct 7: Trauma, tragedy and the normalisation of Palestinian suffering

Three years is long enough for a child to learn to speak, to walk and to begin discovering the world. In Gaza, three years have instead been measured...

07.10.2026 30

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Toxic Israeli elections and abusive religious fanatics

The combination of the Jewish holidays, the anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks and the critical Israeli elections has proven to be an enabling...

07.10.2026 30

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What would it take for the Yemen offensive to succeed?

Abdulla Banndar Al-Etaibi Two days after the announced counter-offensive by the internationally recognised Yemeni government, the operation named Dawn...

07.10.2026 30

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India’s ‘million mutinies’ are puncturing Modi’s aura of invincibility

This October, India is a country where a million mutinies are gathering force. India’s “cockroaches” — supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party...

07.10.2026 40

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Netanyahu cannot afford for the Gaza war to end

There is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the Gaza war: Israel repeatedly speaks of ceasefires, negotiations and security arrangements...

05.10.2026 40

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Child Abuse in Pakistan: The Justice Gap in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Child abuse remains one of the most critical protection challenges facing Pakistan. Across the country, from Karachi to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),...

05.10.2026 40

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Burnham’s vision promises the change voters desire

The speech British Prime Minister Andy Burnham gave to the Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool last week may come to be seen as seminal....

05.10.2026 40

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Chokepoint diplomacy weaponizing maritime geography

The recent fall of the Yemeni city of Mokha and its strategic port, followed immediately by the Houthi militia’s invasion of Mayun Island in the...

04.10.2026 40

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Russia’s nuclear plants are ageing. Who will pay to dismantle them?

The world often discusses the nuclear threat posed by Russia, but far less attention is paid to the nuclear risks within Russia itself, particularly...

04.10.2026 40

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The double standards of a failed execution

Let’s pretend that the Islamic Republic of Iran had undertaken to execute a 50-year-old woman for a crime committed when she was an 18-year-old....

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To reclaim its sovereignty, Senegal must approach debt differently

Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund and Senegal announced a new loan programme worth $2.2bn. This came after a previous deal was...

03.10.2026 40

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Washington’s diplomacy in Sudan has backfired

After more than three years, Washington continues to fumble its way through a response to Sudan’s heart-wrenching war. This past week, it may have...

02.10.2026 30

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Iraq must not become an Iranian banana republic

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed The withdrawal of American and other international forces from Iraq comes at one of the most difficult and dangerous moments...

02.10.2026 40

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