World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The suffering of Sudanese is unmistakable. You touch it in the markets and the streets, in people's talk of rising prices, the deterioration of the pound, and the climbing dollar exchange rate; you feel it in the lines of cars waiting for hours at the petrol stations. It is a daily suffering that…

The Houthis have long played, and continue to play, the role of a war proxy and Iran’s arm in the region. What has occurred recently is essentially the implementation of a military strategy known since the time of Sun Tzu as stretching the edges. This time, however, the objective is to relieve…

The British Labour government has finally moved from words to action regarding Israel. Even before stepping across the threshold of Downing Street, the new Prime Minister admitted that the previous Labour government, led by Keir Starmer, failed to rise to the level of the tragedy in Gaza, stressing…

The Iranian war continues along its various fronts. In reality, it is called an Iranian war because Iran was its source when Hamas launched its attack on October 7, 2023; when it mobilized its other proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen to provide support; and when it responded to the anticipated…

Twenty-five years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and after following much of what has been published about the terrorism dilemma, one cannot say that the world has failed to learn a great deal about counterterrorism. On the contrary, the world has learned a great deal. Intelligence…

When Adyan was born in a rural hospital in Lahj, southwestern Yemen, he weighed just 900 grams. At only 28 weeks, his chances of survival were slim. In many conflict-affected settings, a baby born that early would not survive. But Adyan did. The midwife caring for him had access to modern equipment…

The most recent wave of Yemeni displacement to Djibouti, against the backdrop of the accelerating events on Yemen's western coast, was not the first of its kind, nor is it merely a passing humanitarian situation imposed by the circumstances of the present conflict. It is the extension of a long…

At a highly sensitive juncture, and amid increasing talk regarding the possibility of a third round of regional escalation, Iraqis are confronted with a fateful question: Is there someone seeking to make Iraq a part of this conflict - not merely a venue from which messages are dispatched or through…

Before becoming preoccupied with calculating how many Iranian vessels were struck in the Strait of Hormuz, or how many commercial ships came under Iranian attack, we must step back slightly from this specific image and attempt to view what is happening through a comprehensive and broader lens of…

Years ago, news spread about a system resembling a credit rating used by China to evaluate its citizens and determine their eligibility for government services. This unverified news fed the imagination of the "free world" regarding the difference between itself and authoritarian states. In the free…

Voltaire attributed to the French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche the phrase "the imagination is the madwoman of the house" (meaning the madwoman of the soul), to emphasize the importance of reason in seventeenth-century classical thought and eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophy, which later…

The old guard in the Palestinian arena consists not merely of individuals who have occupied and continue to hold leadership positions since its founding, it is also a formula that has governed the arena for decades without any fundamental renewal of its structure or figures. Following the radical…