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The first seventy days of Ali Falih al-Zaidi's premiership renewed significant hope among Iraqis since he took office, before Tehran dispelled it. It was a period marked by the pursuit of corrupt figures, the reform of crippled government agencies, and efforts to restrict weapons to the state by…

More than a year after the latest phase of the US-Israel war against Iran started with a 12-day mass bombing a consensus is emerging among pundits that President Donald Trump who casts himself as the commander-in-chief in this conflict cannot win it. One sign that Trump himself may have reached…

Around the world, healthcare systems are being asked to do more with less. Populations are aging, chronic diseases are rising, and demand for specialized care is growing faster than the supply of specialists. In too many communities, geography still determines whether a patient receives timely,…

Many people followed the news of the nuclear agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States, each for their own reason. Some viewed it from a political perspective, others regarded it as a source of national pride, while a third group focused on its commercial implications. For me, however,…

The scale of foreign interference in Sudan's ongoing war is no longer a secret. Numerous international reports and media outlets have documented it, and the Sudanese government has raised the issue repeatedly, backing its complaints to the UN Security Council with photographs and documents showing…

In searching for the roots of the tragedies Arabs are now enduring amid the region's overlapping wars, attention turns again and again to the militias ravaging the area. Their leaders share distinctive traits that betray considerable brutality, cloaked in conduct whose religious basis is…

Imagine walking into a job interview and finding that the person sizing you up is not a person at all, but an artificial intelligence system. Or picture a taxi driver in Beijing or Shanghai who wakes each morning fearing for his livelihood because, by media accounts, the authorities have licensed…

Syria's foreign relations may be in better shape today than at any point in decades. It has shown in its dealings with its neighbors, and in a shared push by nearly every state in the region, except Israel, toward a future of cooperation rather than the old inheritance of meddling, plotting, and…

The Suez Canal was the Middle East's great flashpoint until the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran. After that, the map of the conflict changed. The prize became the Gulf's oil, and it has remained the prize ever since. The shift was gradual, unfolding from the 1950s to the present. Its logic…

The Washington summit between President Donald Trump and President Joseph Aoun reaffirmed Lebanon’s path toward independence after decades of occupation and subordination to an axis of destruction that exacted a staggering toll: mass killing, systematic devastation on the scale of more than one…

America's standing in the world has never rested on military and economic power alone. It has also rested on the stability of its institutions, its respect for the orderly transfer of power, and the predictability of its policies—qualities that inspired allies' confidence in American leadership of…

I asked the man who is in the thick of it for his assessment of the situation in southern Lebanon. He replied: "Part of our territory is occupied. It is a hostage in the hands of the Israeli army. I wish the Lebanese army were capable of recovering the occupied land by its own forces, but that is…