World News Insights: Opinion Articles

For President Trump, the map of Ukraine on an easel in the Oval Office had an obvious message. Russia has taken a big chunk of territory in an eastern region known as the Donbas. That territory, shaded in red, was gone. Ukraine needed to make a deal to get peace, or it risked losing more. For…

The embezzlement of hundreds of millions of European agricultural funds in Greece is not an isolated incident, but rather a manifestation of a trend not limited to the EU or Greece in particular. It involved 400 million Euros in subsidies to support sustainable agriculture and land management,…

On the eve of the Extraordinary Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, the gravest existential threat facing the region and the Islamic world weighs more heavily on the conscience of the world than ever. It is the Zionist entity that continues its…

The positions of the Lebanese Communist Party and its leadership are not totally comprehensible. Their despair and rage are appropriate, be it due to the resumption of Lebanon's subjection to Israeli occupation or because of their solidarity with the civilian victims of the genocidal war in Gaza…

On October 10, as the committee that chooses this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, US President Donald Trump is expected to be in Transcaucasia to inaugurate work on a 166-kilometer-long railway line in one of the world’s most rugged terrains. The planned line is already dubbed the Trump…

It will not be easy for the Sudanese people to forget the pain of this war. It has touched nearly every household. Nearly every corner of the country has been ravaged, and the scars will remain etched in collective memory for a long time to come. Sudan will not be what it was before the war…

For decades, fear-mongering and conspiracy theories (that went so far they almost sparked a civil war) have been among key tools and tactics of Lebanon’s sectarian faction, especially in the face of attempts to curtail their influence. Nonetheless, the denial we see from Hezbollah, a party that…

Before the war on Gaza broke out and expanded to several other countries in the region, the world had been dreaming of a “New Middle East,” that is, of turning the region into an oasis of stability, sparing its people the scourge of perpetual conflict, and relieving the world of constant…

It may be another case of the adage: The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Either way, it has come as a welcome surprise for China to see its top global rival, the United States, pick a fight with Beijing’s biggest Asian competitor, India. Relations between Washington and New Delhi are on the…

Netanyahu’s allies are also his adversaries, both Arabs and Israelis. He spares no effort in provoking them and stirring enough dust to stay at the top of the headlines or to distract them from his own issues. The focus on Netanyahu as an individual is understandable and even justified under the…

For decades, the same basic question has haunted the Middle East: what is the greatest obstacle to the consolidation of stability and sovereignty? To me, the answer is clear. The “statization of militias:” non-state armed groups and revolutionary movements’ transformation from temporary entities…

On Friday, someone anonymously emailed me an article from a far-right American website as supposed proof that I had killed my husband with Covid vaccines — a reboot of the same baseless narrative first pushed in the weeks following his death in late 2022. According to mRNA vaccine conspiracists,…