World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The recent meeting between the United States, France, and Syria remains the subject of much speculation and debate, with much of the focus on what was actually agreed upon... This state of affairs is neither new nor surprising, given the unusual circumstances in which the meeting was held and…

The recent events in Sweida were not merely sectarian clashes between unruly, radical, or tribal forces and the people of Jabal al-Druze. Rather, they were also a window into the profound structural crisis that has been rattling Syria since the collapse of the Assad regime that no one shed a tear…

When you see the "diligence" of an Israeli with the audacity to appear in Western media and try to justify their government's actions, watching them spectacularly fail to defend their position or respond to their interlocutor, you notice that it does nothing to soften the cutting criticism of…

Wars have erupted in several Middle Eastern countries, and Israel has gotten involved in all of them. It took on Hezbollah in Lebanon, eliminated most of its leaders, and dismantled most, though not all, of its military capabilities. Hezbollah remains at the center of controversy, both inside…

The war in Gaza, with all its horrors, is approaching its second year, making it the longest and deadliest confrontation in the history of the Palestinian and Arab-Israeli conflict. Why has the Gaza war lasted this long? Some believe that Israel fears for the remaining hostages. Others think…

The first component of wisdom is a precise assessment of the balance of power. It is indispensable in war, revolution, or a coup d’état. The balance of power is an almost inescapable consideration that cannot easily be written out of the equation. Ignoring it usually leads to catastrophic…

Recently, some Israelis and Jews opposed to Netanyahu’s government have noticed that the images coming out of Gaza resemble, to some extent, images that conveyed faces from the Jewish Holocaust. The densely populated civilian areas punished indiscriminately - killed by weapons as well as starvation…

History shows us that the Middle East has long been the land of spiritual values. To this day, these values remain the moral system of large segments of the globe. It is in this region that the three monotheistic religions were born. It was on this land that the routes of global trade once passed,…

After the Assad regime fell and the emergence of Sharaa as the new leader, Syrians were inundated with talk of “optimism” and “pessimism.” But, to a large extent, so were the Lebanese, as they had also witnessed a change to their governance. These two concepts, optimism and pessimism, are…

No sane person can think that the horrors unfolding in Gaza can simply be swept under the rug and forgotten the moment the guns fall silent. This war is the kind of cataclysmic event that stretches across time and etches itself deep into the collective conscience. The horror now goes beyond Gaza…

Amid the sweeping changes reshaping the Middle East, debates about the utility of keeping the roughly 40,000 US troops currently deployed across the region. With air and naval bases from Syria to the Gulf, their presence has come under renewed scrutiny following the recent US strikes on Iran’s…

The Agreement on the Regulation of Navigation in Khor Abdullah, which the Republic of Iraq and the State of Kuwait signed on April 29, 2012, offered an adequate technical and administrative framework for dealing with the repercussions of Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, resolving the…