World News Insights: Opinion Articles

On that bitterly cold day in the winter of 2022, Vladimir Putin launched his swift, sweeping offensive against Ukraine, hoping for its surrender within days. My almost certain impression at the time was that if the assault had targeted one of the major Western European nations instead of Ukraine,…

Last Thursday, the British magazine “The New World” was published with a front cover featuring an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was depicted wearing a military uniform and lying in state in a coffin draped in red velvet cloth, beneath which a caption read in a large font: "After…

The upcoming US midterm elections in early November promise to be exceptional in every sense of the word. They will amount to a series of major “tests” taking place on a single day—tests that could lead to a different set of calculations for President Donald Trump’s second term and redefine the…

The European Union is a political entity born from an era unlike anything that came before it. Europe is a continent with a distinctive geography and a human composition that has moved throughout history and across geography, driven by winds that were sometimes calm and at other times violent and…

A message has been sent through the Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani trilateral defense agreement, whose preparation took more than a year: that any assault on the security of the Gulf states ultimately means an assault on the security of the entire region. The signatory states deemed it necessary to send…

Is the world due for a new geopolitical crisis- one that may, at some point, harden into political and economic conflict? In the far north, where ice that has been accumulating for 2.58 million years is melting away, the first signs of a new polar confrontation seem to be appearing. A few days…

It is an exception in its place and in its time. It draws its foundational symbolism from the place, while giving geography an importance as broad as its three dimensions. As for time, it is not the product of the moment of signing. The choice of timing condenses multiple periods, past and future,…

When President Ronald Reagan took office, the Soviet Union was at the height of its vigor- or so the prevailing belief held. An iron revolutionary system in possession of an enormous nuclear arsenal. Why, then, did it collapse a few years later? Reagan saw what others did not. For all its…

No one disputes the power of the media's influence or the important role it plays in the lives of individuals and of society. But the direction that power takes depends directly on how deeply a subject is framed, on how it is handled, and on the grounds the communicative approach rests upon. …

Is the war launched by Israel and the US against Iran already over bar the shouting? As far as the war that the Islamic Republic started in 1979, the answer is no. The regime created by Ayatollah Khomeini built its legitimacy around its claim of fighting against the “Great Satan” and its “little”…

Those following the appointment of new leadership figures in Iran have for the most part paused at the name of General Mohsen Rezaei, who has taken up the post of secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council. There are various reasons why an observer would stop at this name in…

Amid Kuwait's heightened alert to the Iranian danger- whether from Iran directly or from Iran's agents in Iraq- this astonishing item lands in front of us: Kuwait's State Security foiled a new terrorist plot targeting one of the country's vital facilities, arresting a citizen who had joined ISIS…