World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The 2019 financial and economic collapse presented an exceptional opportunity to chart a new path that could pull Lebanon out of rock bottom. However, the power-hungry political establishment, which had been postponing the collapse since 2017, made protecting bankrupt banks its top priority,…

After the guns have relatively fallen silent and the voices of extremism, which often fuel entrenchment and sharp polarization, have subsided, a question now presents itself at every turn in Yemen. Simple on the surface, it is deeply problematic beneath it: where do you stand on the recent…

Venezuela’s two “former” leaders, the late Chávez and his successor Maduro, somehow resemble figures from the Middle East, Saddam, Khomeini, and Gaddafi. They were famous for bombastic speeches, populist slogans, and zero achievements. Who can forget Chávez’s words from the UN podium about US…

The world woke up to momentous developments in Venezuela yesterday. Despite their gravity, however, they were not unexpected. Indeed, neither US President Donald Trump nor his aides and generals hid their intention to invade Venezuela, overthrow its government, and install an alternative regime…

It is hardly surprising that the Saudi initiative to host the intra-Southern dialogue has been well received in Yemen. The initiative offers the people of southern Yemen, as well as all of its factions, an opportunity to develop a united vision for the Southern Question and a framework for…

The daring raid that snagged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was an awesome display of the capabilities that make the US military the world’s best by far. It serves as proof that President Donald Trump’s corollary to the Monroe Doctrine is real, and reminds us of his penchant for using force in…

The year 2025 will be remembered as one of shocks and of resilience, a year of uncertainty but also a year of tech boom and record performance. Despite higher tariffs, geopolitical fragmentation and elevated policy uncertainty, global trade and economic activity held up across advanced and emerging…

If “Trump’s court” summons you, then take the issue with the seriousness it deserves. This applies whether you are a president accused of sponsoring terrorism or of running a drug empire. It also applies if you are the leader of a faction assigned to harass the “Great Satan,” its embassies, and its…

It is too early to judge whether Iran’s president can contain the anger on the streets. The protest movement that erupted days ago in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar — triggered by the collapse of the Iranian currency — quickly spread to universities, some state-run industrial facilities, and other cities. …

For decades most “Iranologists” regarded one theory as “certain” in Iranian politics: Three segments of society would never rebel against the system created by Khomeini in 1979. The three were the bazaaris, the clergy and university students seduced by leftist ideas in vogue across the globe at…

Until the 1970s, a proclivity for one-size-fits-all solutions to the region's problems had shaped Arab political thought, particularly in the Levant. "Unity,liberation," and, occasionally, socialism initiated by a "national democratic regime," were presented as the pathway for realizing the…

No one can read ISIS’s infamous manuscript “The Management of Savagery” can fail to see that the organization’s ideology built around a “project of vengeance” that has no coherent doctrine like those developed by other violent fundamentalist groups like al-Jihad and al-Jamaa Islamiya, or even their…