World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Those who believe that sparking or fanning wars in their neighbors’ homes can be done at no cost are mistaken. Once the fire is stoked, it recognizes no borders and does not distinguish between those who sparked it and those who merely live nearby. The events unfolding in Sudan today offer a stark…

A year into US President Donald Trump’s second term, it has become clear his victory was a fleeting anomaly, but a stark reflection of extreme grievances against traditional institutions. With a solid majority in Congress, President Trump has a mandate that few of his predecessors had enjoyed,…

After most had expected an imminent US/Israeli strike on Iran, it never materialized. Matters have calmed somewhat for now, but questions around the scale and timing of such a strike remain. Would it send a deterrent message to Iran intended to compel a shift in its regional policy? Or, as others…

Former minister and international financial expert Adel Afiouni says that “changing the system and reform from within, working with elements of the ruling class and to make gradual progress in the hope of saving the country, is a theory that has failed a thousand times.” This assessment by a…

The statement by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on the involvement of 21 individuals and entities in financing the Houthi militia was shocking. The statement said the targeted individuals form the financial and logistical infrastructure that enables the Houthis to…

Once again, diplomacy is seen as a better solution than war. This is evident in both Iran and Greenland, where diplomatic solutions are prioritized over...

A year into the term of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the debate rages on in a political environment that can hardly agree on a vision or an approach, and a population that harsh experiences have not taught the importance of reaching a bare minimum consensus. Today, Lebanon’s problems seem like…

It seems all but certain that the Levant, and Iran, are turning the page on the defiance era. As well as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Assad regime, the regime in Tehran is itself on the precipice of a decisive phase that threatens its survival, while Iraq finds itself compelled to reconsider its…

No one in the region or the world wants to see Iran fragment or disintegrate, not out of sympathy for the regime but because the collapse of a state as large as Iran would not be a containable domestic affair. It would be a geopolitical earthquake whose aftershocks would reverberate across the…

General Mazloum Abdi asked President Ahmad al-Sharaa for something he cannot give. Al-Sharaa cannot parcel out the “new Syria” among its components. Genuine decentralization for Kurdish areas would immediately raise parallel claims by the Alawites of the coast and the Druze of Suwayda. Without a…

Washington’s current policy approach toward Iran seeks to apply maximum pressure while avoiding open-ended military confrontation. Rather than rushing to resolve the conflict, this American administration prefers to manage tensions within carefully calibrated limits, keeping options for deterrence…

Two voices have been rumbled globally since the Venezuelan event: one questions the need for international law as such, with the negative answer implied in the question, and the other loudly decries its absence with feigned innocence. The law is a process of contention and a framework assessed…