World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The Makkah Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan marks an important development in the structure of regional security- not only for the three countries' military capabilities, but for their political and economic weight, their geographic positions, and their reach…

It has become clear that the war waged by Iran is against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf sisters, and is not an Iranian war against the US or Israel. Iran has attacked Saudi Arabia with more than 1,000 drones since last February, in addition to ballistic missiles that targeted civilian…

Some Lebanese are inclined to reject any peace with Israel - now, tomorrow, and the day after - regardless of who is in power. Others lean toward full peace and normalization with it, "now, now, not tomorrow," regardless of who is in power. Both faces of this impulse, rendering turn people into…

It is only natural to feel indignation and anger toward an enemy like Israel, which in recent years has known nothing but killing, destruction, and blocking any prospects for peace. However, two issues have become highly pressing, even if they appear distinct. The first is the vacillation between…

To understand the intellectual and emotional turmoil sweeping the Middle East during this highly volatile period, one need look no further than Lebanon. This state of affairs is driven by two primary factors: first, the country's diverse landscape of distinct groups with deeply contrasting views…

Climate change was not treated with the level of international seriousness it deserved, even though discussions about it began as early as the 1990s. For many years, it was regarded largely as a theoretical issue, until the world witnessed climate change becoming an undeniable reality. Its…

When the Sudanese army and the Joint Forces recaptured the Jabra al-Sheikh area in Kordofan late last month, the most striking sight was not the scale of the military destruction, but what had been done to the area's main hospital. It had been rendered completely inoperable after being subjected to…

After every United Nations-led political process has failed to end the division or bring Libya to elections, could the initiative put forward by Massad Boulos, the US president's adviser on African and Middle Eastern affairs, become a realistic way out of Libya's chronically tangled crisis? And is…

Looking at Iranian conduct in the Middle East through the lens of isolated events is no longer sufficient to understand what is happening. The escalation unfolding across multiple arenas — from the Gulf to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen — does not appear, in the view of…

The events sweeping the Middle East these past days have run along two paths: a return to war, or a turn to negotiation - an effort, within the terms of a violated truce, to find a way out of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran has chosen to seize. Iran's claim runs not only along the…

Interpretations of the “framework agreement” reached between Lebanon and Israel on June 26 differ by political camp. Each side reads it through its own understanding of Lebanon's supreme national interest. Yet a national consensus is beginning to form, above the usual divisions and alignments, in…

War is not always waged for destruction alone. At times it is a means of forcing out information that negotiation could not uncover. Each side hides its true strength, its capacity to endure, and the losses it can absorb. A military strike puts those claims to the test. War then reveals whether a…