World News Insights: Opinion Articles

What we are undergoing, including the recent Anglo-American raids in Yemen, is nothing more than "maneuvering warfare" through which the trajectory of the region is being negotiated. There's a realistic Western saying: "Making a mistake once is an opportunity to learn from it, repeating it…

Last Thursday, military forces from the United States and the United Kingdom struck nearly thirty different locations across Western Yemen to degrade Houthi military capabilities and dissuade the rebel group from further attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. It will take a bit more time to…

This was before the outbreak of the “Arab Spring.” The meeting was neither official nor public. A number of politicians decided to reflect on the situation in the region. The discussion reviewed the conditions in the Middle East in light of the US army’s uprooting of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Then…

A few days ago, Riad Al-Turk (Syrian) and Karim Mroueh (Lebanese) passed away. The two men, who died a few days apart, were born in the same year, 1930. They were communists for decades and then became leading communist figures, before they walked back, each in his own way, from their commitment to…

No one following developments in Syria disagrees that the situation has deteriorated to an unprecedented degree. Most observers believe the decline is accelerating, further exacerbating the situation in Syria, thereby prolonging the conflict, deepening the obstacles to resolving it, and raising the…

Iran’s relentless pressure on the US, via Arab proxies across the Middle East, has been mounting for some time, but intensified since the 7 October war in Gaza and may escalate after the latest attack on the Houthis in Yemen. While the Houthis have been firing drones and missiles at ships and…

The US-British strikes on the Houthis in response to their disruption of maritime navigation were predictable and inevitable. Rather, they had been so since the Houthis took control of Sanaa and insisted on behaving like a militia, not a political party that shares power with others, like the other…

“We will fight until it ends, or we end.” Words that express the logic of stubbornness and insistence on the war of extermination. This is the conviction of the Sudanese Army commander General Abdulfattah Al-Burhan in his response to peace with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as he rejected an…

If you thought you knew all you need to know about the war in Gaza, think again. Much depends on where and how you get your news from. Last week I decided to do a little, obviously non-scientific, experiment by following the Gaza news through two channels: the old BBC, one of Great Britain’s most…

If Israel were to calculate the losses it has suffered in its ongoing war, it could only come to this conclusion: Gaza, with its tunnels, has become a nightmare that strikes more fear than armies and all their lethal and devastating tools. Israel has dug itself into its own tunnel, and it is…

If its link with the West is among the most robust sources of Israel’s power, it could potentially become among the weakest. In the face of the West’s intense military, political, and financial support, there is a Western paradigm that the Jewish state favors and gravitates towards. What is this…

Since the outbreak of its war on Gaza, Israel has killed about 139 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Israel's targeting of Hezbollah members is not new; they have regularly come under fire on Syrian territory. Now, things are changing, especially after the Israeli war on Gaza. Israel is…