World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Once again, diplomacy is seen as a better solution than war. This is evident in both Iran and Greenland, where diplomatic solutions are prioritized over...

A year into the term of Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, the debate rages on in a political environment that can hardly agree on a vision or an approach, and a population that harsh experiences have not taught the importance of reaching a bare minimum consensus. Today, Lebanon’s problems seem like…

It seems all but certain that the Levant, and Iran, are turning the page on the defiance era. As well as Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Assad regime, the regime in Tehran is itself on the precipice of a decisive phase that threatens its survival, while Iraq finds itself compelled to reconsider its…

No one in the region or the world wants to see Iran fragment or disintegrate, not out of sympathy for the regime but because the collapse of a state as large as Iran would not be a containable domestic affair. It would be a geopolitical earthquake whose aftershocks would reverberate across the…

General Mazloum Abdi asked President Ahmad al-Sharaa for something he cannot give. Al-Sharaa cannot parcel out the “new Syria” among its components. Genuine decentralization for Kurdish areas would immediately raise parallel claims by the Alawites of the coast and the Druze of Suwayda. Without a…

Washington’s current policy approach toward Iran seeks to apply maximum pressure while avoiding open-ended military confrontation. Rather than rushing to resolve the conflict, this American administration prefers to manage tensions within carefully calibrated limits, keeping options for deterrence…

Two voices have been rumbled globally since the Venezuelan event: one questions the need for international law as such, with the negative answer implied in the question, and the other loudly decries its absence with feigned innocence. The law is a process of contention and a framework assessed…

Ending the nuclear program and stopping external activity could spare Iran foreign intervention that enables internal change by exploiting widespread domestic unrest. The Iranian regime is facing an existential crisis for the first time since the founder of the Islamic Republic returned to Tehran…

Today marks the first anniversary of Donald J Trump’s return to the White House, and you may or may not want to celebrate. What you can’t do is deny that it has been an exciting year. The first thing worth noting is that the year in question was different from the first year in Trump’s first…

The Sudanese government’s announcement that it would relocate its operations to Khartoum suggests that the country has entered into a new phase of recovery. It is not a merely symbolic measure but a step that reflects a genuine shift toward reviving the heart of Sudan. Khartoum was rendered an…

Developments in Iran have been evolving rapidly since late December 2025, taking a dangerous direction that cannot be reduced to “livelihood grievances.” The current wave of protests seems like a serious test for the political system, not only because the streets have filled but also because the…

The international order does not undergo major shifts when there is an equilibrium. Usually, they unfold when things are in flux and there is a vacuum to fill, as the previous rules erode with no alternatives emerging to replace them and when hegemons lose either the will or ability to oversee this…