Tariq Al-Homayed

Military chaos, so to speak, has taken hold in our region since the October 7 operation in Gaza and the subsequent wars in Lebanon: Israeli-Iranian military skirmishes, the fall of Assad, US strikes in Yemen, and then Israel’s rampage in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon. Nonetheless, one remarkable…

President Ahmad Al-Sharaa prudently defused a dangerous crisis in a matter of days- a crisis that posed a dramatic threat to the country. Indeed, the powerful winds of incitement and misinformation could have turned the sparks of what happened in the coastal regions into a massive fire. Bloodshed,…

The criminal military attacks seen in Syrian coastal regions last Thursday cannot be attributed to the remnants of the Assad regime alone. These men who did not fight when the criminal Assad had been in the Presidential Palace in Damascus would not fight now, with Bashar in Moscow. We cannot…

There is concern for Syria, its security, stability, and unity. This concern is justified for several reasons. Despite my firm conviction that Syria is off today, after the criminal Bashar al-Assad has fled, its path is riddled with wolves and mistakes. Some of these mistakes that ultimately serve…

Musa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’ foreign relations office, told The New York Times that he would not have supported the October 7 attack on Israel had he known the scale of destruction it would bring to Gaza. He also indicated that there is some willingness within Hamas to negotiate the future…

Two notable developments unfolded last week. The first was Reuters admitting- an entire week after the fact- that it had published a misleading report about Jordan’s King Abdullah II’s statements during his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. The report had sparked a baseless…

I have been making this point for a while now: Saudi Arabia does not have a "zero problems" policy; rather, it has adopted a "zero severance" policy. That is, the Kingdom does not totally cut ties and boycott others, as politics is the art of the possible, and it requires communication, even with…

The above title is not my opinion, but that of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, who stated: "Hamas should relinquish power if serving Palestinian interests demands it." This is the correct stance to take given the escalating crisis in the region. It is a dangerous crisis…

President Donald Trump bewildered everyone—in the region, the world, and the United States—with his “idea” to displace the people of Gaza to Jordan and Egypt, rebuild it as an American territory, and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” The confusion continues as Trump continues to…

Since Bashar al-Assad fled the country and Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Damascus, eventually being declared president, every speech and interview he has given, whether televised or in print, reflects a degree of rationality Syria had not seen in half a century. President Sharaa has been interviewed…