World News Insights: Opinion Articles

“Strategic stability” was one of the most prominent concepts of the Cold War era, during the height of the confrontation between the Warsaw Pact and NATO. At the time, the objective was to avoid falling into the nuclear trap and avoid the worst, as humanity stood alarmingly close to catastrophe…

Wars are not the only catastrophe that can befall nations. Limbo is even more exhausting: “non-war and non-peace.” This is precisely the situation the region finds itself in today. Tensions between Iran and the United States persist, markets remain uneasy, and maritime trade is under pressure. No…

A few days ago, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a “dangerous erosion” in respect for international law and the UN Charter, stressing that the lack of commitment to international law is pushing the world toward chaos and escalating conflicts. This is not the first time he…

With Iran and the US still moving towards some form of truce it may be too early to provide a final assessment of the conflict. A truce, or armistice in military terms, is something more than a lee ceasefire but something less than a peace accord. It doesn’t end a war; only moth-balls it sine die…

Despite the continued fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran, the conflict does not appear to have entered a phase of genuine calm. Amid mediation efforts led by Pakistan to prevent renewed confrontation, US intelligence assessments indicate that China and Russia continue to provide…

The level of destruction in Sudan has reached its peak. The country now faces a cruel challenge that it must overcome sooner rather than later. It is a heavy burden carried by the weary shoulders of the Sudanese people. The time has come to cast it aside and rid themselves of its deadly philosophy…

It has been over four years since the Russian-Ukrainian war broke out, and neither side is managing to decide the battle militarily. This has been an exceptionally grave conflict. The first of its kind on the European continent since the end of the Second World War, it has placed NATO countries in…

Between the corridors of the Grand Mosque, the plains of Makkah, the valley of Mina, the plain of Arafat, and the grounds of Muzdalifah, millions of pilgrims move these days answering the call of their Lord. They have come from every corner of the earth, with their diverse races, languages,…

I first encountered the term “the Lebanonization of Iraq” in the headline of a Reuters story published shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein, when the American occupation authorities were considering the adoption of an ethno-sectarian quota system resembling the political system that has been in…

My brother, friend, and foster brother through nursing, Hassan Yassin, passed away. May God have mercy on him. I knew him for fifty years, from the time he was working independently as a consultant on oil affairs, drawing on the experience he had gained as director of the office of the late…

With the partial formation of Ali Faleh al-Zaidi’s government, the greatest dilemma facing both the man himself and Iraq as a whole is beginning to crystallize. His background as one of Iraq’s leading businessmen, combined with the support of the Coordination Framework, the coalition of Shiite…

At the moment Hamas launched the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, Qassam Brigades Commander Mohammed Deif called on “the Palestinian youth in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and inside Israel to rise up... Whoever has a rifle should bring it out; its time has come.” Deif also urged the Arab and Islamic nations…