World News Insights: Opinion Articles

With each passing day, the depth of Lebanon’s predicament becomes clearer. Israel is nibbling away at territory after uprooting and displacing its entire population, while Iran, through the Quds Force, is meddling in the country and remains intent on eroding Lebanese sovereignty and decision-making…

Before the momentum generated by Lebanon “breaking of the taboo” of engaging in direct negotiations with Israel began to subside, there began to emerge European reverberations that complement the projects of Benjamin Netanyahu for the future of the Middle East. Having hosted last week the …

America, and so the world, are split. He inspires excitement in his supporters and the hatred of his opponents. His enemies are many, and his supporters are not few. Some say that his shadow weighs heavily on those who despise him - and that among them are those who dream of erasing him, that a…

Each time a new Secretary-General of the Arab League is due to be appointed, the issue is framed as one of a person rather than an institution. The incoming or outgoing Secretary-General is typically a figure of broad competence and experience, drawn from a distinguished diplomatic background and…

I watched and listened to an Iranian academic, Hossein Royvaran, speaking from inside Iran on Al Arabiya with the colleague Naif Al-Ahmari. He made a remarkable claim. This pro-government academic, speaking from Tehran, offered an interpretation that would make the Supreme Leader and head of the…

Iranian ambitions in the Gulf did not begin with the Iranian revolution. They are an extension of a conception that had taken shape during the reign of Mohammad Reza Shah in the 1970s amid Iran’s rapid ascent, which was driven by an unprecedented oil boom, military modernization, and an explicit…

Amjad Youssef has finally fallen into the hands of officers from the Syrian Ministry of Interior. He is among the most wanted figures of the Assad regime and among the most notorious war criminals of the regime’s war on its own people between 2011 and 2024 - a war that ended with the regime’s…

There is no doubt that rising life expectancy for both sexes is one of humanity’s great achievements and a sign of improved quality of life on Earth. Infant mortality has declined dramatically over the decades, as has mortality among children. This success in saving the lives of countless children…

With Kuwait’s emergence as an independent state in 1966, three pioneering forces emerged whose ambitions exceeded the resources at hand. The first was an emerging, highly ambitious press, working with rudimentary presses yet driven by diverse professional voices and experience. At the same time…

In his torrent of tweets, US President Donald Trump often claims that though he didn’t intend to do so, he has succeeded in bringing regime change to Iran. In the new regime he says he has created he finds unnamed reasonable people with whom he could reach a deal to end the war and make Iran…

From time to time, leaders of the Darfur movements that signed the Juba Peace Agreement issue statements that raise both confusion and concern. These statements hint at leveraging arms to consolidate positions or to obtain concessions in exchange for continuing to fight alongside the army against…

Iraq, like Lebanon, was dragged into supporting Iran’s war effort against its will. Unlike the Lebanese government that condemned and denounced Hezbollah’s actions, however, the government of Iraq neither prevented nor condemned the actions of the factions operating in the country, which targeted…