World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Is the 60-day ceasefire with Iran declared by President Trump last month over? As is often the case with what the mercurial leader of the world’s only superpower says the answer is: yes-but not quite. In his tongue-lashing of Iran on the margin of the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump compared the…

Syria rejected the United States' request that Damascus intervene in Lebanon to confront Hezbollah. President Ahmed al-Sharaa expressed this refusal, affirming Syria's commitment to civil peace in Lebanon, wishing the Lebanese people well, and hoping that Lebanon's relationship with Syria would be…

Many Sudanese agree that intra-Sudanese dialogue constitutes the most realistic path for rescuing the country from its current crisis. After years of polarization and division, followed by a war that deepened the wounds and widened the circle of destruction and displacement, it has become clear…

The Sadrist movement in Iraq has once again shown that it places the interests of the people above all else. First, it rushed to announce the integration of the members of its military wing, the "Peace Brigades," into government forces - a commendable initiative. Those who had heard Moqtada al…

The political tug-of-war between Washington and Tehran continues even as the war remains suspended following the conclusion of a general memorandum of understanding in mid-June, laying the groundwork for ending the conflict and beginning new rounds of negotiations. Most of the memorandum's fourteen…

Any head of government in Israel seeks a visit to Washington, especially during an election campaign. The imminent visit is exactly what Netanyahu needs in his battle for political survival, which is different this time from those before it. His coalition's standing has slumped, as the opinion…

It has been nearly three weeks since the American-Iranian memorandum of understanding, and nothing in the course of the ongoing negotiations suggests that a final agreement is within reach. That brings the future of this negotiating track back into focus once the sixty-day period the memorandum set…

Baghdad is witnessing thunderous chapters of the war on corruption. Factual reports are mixed with fabrications, and accurate images with doctored pictures. The Baghdadis’ schadenfreude over the fall of the “big catches” has been loud and public. They watch the news: piles of dollars buried inside…

Someone asked: Why do the Saudis not resolve the situation in Yemen and put an end to the Houthi group? The truth is that, after many years of following developments in Yemen, I can say that the Houthi question is a “rabbit hole.” Whenever you think you have found the truth, you discover an…

The most dangerous societies are not those in which there are many thieves. Crime has been part of human life since the dawn of history, and no civilization or state has ever been free of it. The real danger begins when society’s view of theft itself changes and it is no longer seen as a…

Can healthy, normal relations be built between the Arab Gulf states, along with other Arab countries such as Jordan and Yemen, on the one hand, and Iran under the ideological rule of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the other? This question did not emerge only today, amid the exchange…

Does the Iranian experience since 1979 represent a model of political modernity rooted in religion, or is it better understood as a narrative that combines modern populism with traditional social and political structures? That question remains open, because understanding post-revolutionary Iran is…