World News Insights: Opinion Articles

During a recent flight, my neighboring passenger informed me that he had a layover on his way from Singapore to the United States. He told me he was a doctor and researcher who will be speaking at a conference on advances in fighting cancer. He said he believes that his participation in the…

A trove of leaked Pentagon documents reveals how deeply Russia’s security and intelligence services have been penetrated by the United States, demonstrating Washington’s ability to warn Ukraine about planned strikes and providing an assessment of the strength of Moscow’s war machine. The…

When a fire broke out last week at a Mexican detention center for migrants and asylum seekers in Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from El Paso, it seemed like cosmically bad luck, a double tragedy: People forced — by political instability, criminal violence, climate change or economic…

The German car industry succeeded in amending the European Union's plan to ban the sale of cars running on internal combustion engines by 2035. Simultaneously, a new Dutch pro-farmers party is threatening to derail the government's plan for large reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the…

Talk of water scarcity in Libya is nothing more than a series of mere lies and unfounded statements. According to the report issued by the Man-Made River Project Authority, massive quantities of water are found in the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer in the Kufra and Sarir Basins. While it shares this…

President Biden’s decision to end a 20-year war in August 2021 led to the swift collapse of the Afghan government and military. His administration has placed heavy blame on his predecessor. The Biden administration’s nearly two-year review of the calamitous American withdrawal from Afghanistan…

It is difficult to understand why the US has been provoking China on Taiwan and what it hopes to achieve from this provocation, especially at this time. Indeed, several Western powers are trying to establish channels of communication with Beijing as they strive to contain the escalating war in…

The majority of local and foreign parties rule out the possibility of reaching an imminent political breakthrough in Lebanon that would end the constitutional vacuum in the two top positions (the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister). The failure of the solution so far is linked to…

To dollarize or not to dollarize? This is the question that the ruling elite in Tehran is beginning to ask both in private and, increasingly, in public. At issue is to accept the US dollar as a de facto second currency of Iran at a time that national currency, often known as touman, continues a…

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…