World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The old guard in the Palestinian arena consists not merely of individuals who have occupied and continue to hold leadership positions since its founding, it is also a formula that has governed the arena for decades without any fundamental renewal of its structure or figures. Following the radical…

An observer might get the impression that the memorandum of understanding signed by the US and Iran was closer to a memorandum of misunderstanding. The US wanted more from the war than what the memorandum provides, while Iran wanted something completely different. Donald Trump stresses that the war…

Among the most famous sayings of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, may God be pleased with him: "If you are in retreat and death is advancing, how swift the meeting must be." I recalled this wise saying amid the clamor that accompanied the words of Jacob Coxon, the British researcher who resigned from the…

The debate in Lebanon turns on the vacuum that the end of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) mission might leave behind. But the more useful question is not whether these forces should be kept, or a similar force substituted for them, but whether Lebanon is ready to move from…

A new chapter in Saudi Arabia's cultural and creative journey begins this morning as the inaugural cohort of students at Riyadh University of the Arts starts their first academic semester. The university launches with immense ambition, bold objectives, and a steadfast foundation: a Saudi identity…

On November 5, 2009, Houthi fighters infiltrated the Saudi village of Al-Khoubah in the Jazan region and climbed Jabal al-Dukhan, attempting to seize control of it, during what became known as the "Sixth War" between the Houthis and the Yemeni government led by then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh. …

Talk of a federal system has once again returned loudly in Lebanon. In other words, an undeclared partition. The campaign is now being led by men of considerable refinement and integrity. But everyone knows that federalism, decentralization, and other such labels are attempts to soften the…

For some time now, I have been following discussions about renewed attempts to launch a Sudanese-Sudanese national dialogue. Like every Arab, I hope one of these efforts succeeds in bringing an end to this tragedy, which has dragged on far longer than it should have. Yet Arab experiences, and…

The latest developments on the ground in Yemen are so significant that their seriousness cannot be understated. Iran now has an arm on the vital Bab el-Mandeb Strait through its proxy, the Houthi militia, which has seized the port of Mokha and the Yemeni islands in the southern Red Sea. The…

The Second Nabatieh Appeal was not merely a call to save a threatened city, nor simply a continuation of an earlier appeal that had warned of a danger drawing near. Between the two appeals, the situation moved from a stage of warning to one in which the danger has become existential for the city…

The far-right Alternative for Germany party has won in one of the states of what was formerly East Germany. It may take power in that small state for the first time, having defeated the Christian Democratic Union, the country’s governing party, in the local elections. Every German media outlet, and…

On this day, September 11, 2001, a full quarter century ago, the world witnessed attacks against the United States of America. It was an event that took the world by surprise and threw it into confusion, given that it targeted the most powerful state in the world, and given the enormity of the…