World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Without any of the rapture seen when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and a number of political and civil society groups signed the “Sudan Founding Charter” in Nairobi last month, it was announced that the signatories had agreed to a transitional constitution that document adopts secularism, calls…

One self-evident condition for solving a problem is recognizing that it exists, and the problem in Lebanon is its defeat. However, Hezbollah does not acknowledge this defeat. As for the occupation and destruction, this defeat's extremely visible and undeniable consequences, they are attributed to…

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…

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi is returning to Iraq as a geopolitical earthquake shakes the Middle East, depriving Iran of its strategic footholds in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. The first conclusion we can draw is that Tehran does not set the tempo any longer. Meanwhile, the…

Much has been said about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s controversial meeting at the White House, and it generated many images, if not “conspiracy theories.” Nonetheless, the scene was a message to the world, a lesson to those who remain captive to outdated conceptions of former US…

Many people avoid posing a pressing- or rather burning- question, and their avoidance sometimes even leads them, whenever this question looms, to hurriedly deflect or swallow it. As for the question, it is this: How did the “Al-Aqsa Flood” disaster trigger that other disaster which the Israelis…

He rubbed his eyes, as if doubting what he saw. The scene was unbelievable—stunning, unexpected. Luck had never been this generous to him. He asked the guard for a big amount of ice and a bottle worthy of an unprecedented celebration. The guard hesitated—his master was not one to drink. He was an…

There must be some connection between the “Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership – The Conservative Promise,” prepared by the Heritage Foundation, and Donald Trump’s domestic and foreign policies. I reviewed it – it’s about a thousand pages long. When asked about it during his presidential…

Sudanese political parties and movements have long suffered from factionalism, but this problem is now at its peak. No party has managed to remain intact, and some have fragmented into small factions that are difficult to reunite. The war, which has been raging for nearly two years now, deepened…

Tehran is nervous both regionally and internationally. Its dilemma deepens as its options narrow and its friends disappear, whether deliberately or out of self-interest. It has few friends, as nations are driven by interests, not friendship or ideology. These friends, burdened by an array of…

“Make Germany Great Again!” It was with this slogan that Friedrich Merz emerged as the main victor in last Sunday’s general election in Germany. Sounds familiar? To be exact, the man who is set to become Germany’s next Chancellor borrowed the phrase made popular by Donald Trump in the United…

Two major phenomena/catastrophes have weighed on the Levant for decades: one is military coups and security states that grew out of them- Syria and Iraq were its two theatres- and the next is militia groups whose main presence was in Lebanon. These two phenomena, although their last representatives…