World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Millions have watched the videos of Iranian pilgrims being received in Madinah and saw how they were greeted warmly and presented with flowers as they arrived, one after the other, to perform the Hajj pilgrimage this year. They were at ease, in safety, and far from the fallout of the war that has…

Few observers were surprised by the local election results in Britain and Northern Ireland yesterday. Opinion polls had already shown that the ruling Labor Party was heading toward a painful defeat under its weak, opportunistic leadership that lacks substance, conviction, and charisma. Its…

The Israeli war on Lebanon has entered its third month. The “pretext” for this war was, of course, a response to Hezbollah’s strategy of “unity of arenas,” or “unity of tracks,” which the group pursued first in the name of solidarity with Gaza, and then in solidarity with Iran after the…

Since the American-Israeli war on Iran erupted on Feb. 28, discordant voices in our region and in Western media have grown louder, questioning Saudi Arabia’s position on a conflict the Kingdom had initially worked hard to prevent, and then made intensive efforts to stop and resolve diplomatically. …

For a long time, Lebanon was accused of being the pampered country in the midst of an Arab world defined by struggle and sacrifice. At best, it was treated as a nation of questionable belonging and suspect intentions. It therefore had to be stripped of its Arab identity, its rights, and its…

“Hezbollah” is struggling to impose a single narrative on the southern massacre, or a single interpretation of it, and views any dissenting opinion as “treason” or a “stabbing in the back of the sacrifices.” Its goal is to prevent its own community, which carried it for years, from saying what it…

Is the war between Iran and the US-Israel tandem over bar the shouting? Even a week ago, the question might have sounded fanciful as President Donald Trump was still threatening to wipe Iran off the map. Now, however, he is talking of “progress” towards a deal confirming what he and his aides…

Throughout history, there have been those who transformed prevailing ideas, examined their origins, and anticipated their future trajectories. Among the most accomplished in this regard were philosophers, who succeeded in distinguishing between good and evil, while excelling at interpreting reality…

One senses that the government of Iran’s Supreme Leader has adopted the American way of dealing with the problems around it. The United States devised a method for dealing with global issues that successive administrations have consistently adopted. Why would they not embrace an approach they…

The confrontation between Sudan and Ethiopia is no longer a border dispute or a dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Recent drone attacks that were followed by the direct accusations Sudan has leveled at Addis Ababa suggest that the two countries’ relationship has reached a far more…

When the revolution triumphed in Iran in 1979, it produced a hybrid system combining "republicanism" and "Islamism." Sovereign decisions are ultimately made with the blessing of the "Supreme Leader" in the “Wilayat al-Faqih” system developed by Ruhollah Khomeini. This doctrine constituted an…

The question of restricting armament to the hands of the Lebanese state has become the central political issue of President Joseph Aoun's term far more quickly than anyone anticipated. Aoun had been elected in early 2025 and in the wake of the Israeli war on Lebanon, which severely weakened…