World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Contradictory reports have been circulating amid the ambiguity around why rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon and who launched them. Hezbollah sources have said that it had not been informed about the operation, claiming the rockets were fired by Hamas in retaliation to Israel’s assault on…

Ukrainians appreciate Western support but they also point out that one of the main reasons which emboldened Russia to act aggressively was the mild reaction when it annexed Crimea. Ukrainians also claim that the West was hesitant at first when Russia attacked Ukraine last February. It was only…

On January 22, 1963, French President Charles de Gaulle and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Treaty of Cooperation, which was called the ‘Elysée Treaty’. The two leaders ended the worst history of conflicts in Europe, including the two world wars. Their countries turned into the…

Approximately three months ago, a vessel carrying a staggering cargo of 5,000 weapons, over 1.5 million rounds of ammunition, and 7,000 missile components was intercepted and seized en route from Iran to a Yemeni port under Houthi control. This is just one of dozens, if not hundreds, of similar…

A new movement has been gaining steam since the China-brokered agreement between Saudi Arabia and Iran concluded. This boisterous movement has struck iron with iron, as "funding" has been halted, beneficiaries have been identified, and obsolete tools have been destroyed or suspended. They will be…

The news just passed us by. It drew neither our attention nor our commentary: Vietnam announced that it would sign a free trade deal with Israel. This happened after seven years of negotiations between the two countries. The details of the reports on this development are no less…

When members of Congress grilled TikTok’s chief executive last month on Capitol Hill, the app’s supporters sprang to its defense online. The lawmakers were “old, tech-illiterate,” one said. “Out of touch, paranoid and self-righteous,” said another. The hourslong hearing “destroyed the illusion…

A series of consequential events that rarely occur simultaneously unfolded last week. The most interesting, though also the least significant, was US President Donald Trump’s arraignment in a Manhattan courtroom over hush-money payments to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels. Alleged to have used…

The Israeli government is adopting a very dangerous policy. The raids of the Al-Aqsa Mosque are pouring fuel on already blazing fires. The insistence on settlement expansion offers the owners of the land no choice but to defend it relentlessly. The insistence on dismissing the moderate and…

At the 20th anniversary of the Iraq war, we stand in the same position relative to the initial invasion as America stood in 1985 relative to the 1965 arrival of our first combat troops in Vietnam. This makes it a useful moment to compare the two conflicts and their effects, and to consider —…

Some are wary of concepts preceded by prefixes like “post” and “neo,” as their negative definition could imply difficulties in positively defining them. This is particularly true of “postmodernism,” which is not only impossible to strictly define, but also rejects the principle of definition…

As typically happens when Israel gets condemned internationally for its violations against the rights of the Palestinians or assaults on their holy sites, the militias of our region make the politically naive decisions to intervene and flip the situation on its head. The actions of these…