World News Insights: Opinion Articles

With the escalation of the American-Israeli war on Iran, the question is no longer confined to the scale of the strikes and Iran’s retaliation. The potential repercussions of the conflict and the way in which it will reshape the regional order are now front and center. The assassinations of Supreme…

The current Iranian regime was born from the embers of alarm. Khomeini’s revolution took on a responsibility that goes beyond the country’s means, despite its position and wealth. Revolutions are similar to individuals; victories make them arrogant, reckless and risk-takers. Khomeini imposed…

The entrenched crisis of the Iranian regime and the fierce wars raging across the Middle East cannot be properly understood without looking into the deep roots of the complex relationship between religion and politics in Iran. This is not a recent phenomenon but one that stretches back centuries,…

It has been said — and the wisest words are those of the discerning — that “geography is God’s shadow upon the earth, and history is humanity’s shadow upon nature.” From geography, we turn to the consultative meeting held last Wednesday night in Riyadh, bringing together the foreign ministers of…

Talk of potential negotiations between Lebanon and Israel continues to fluctuate, appearing plausible at times and nearly nonexistent at others. This comes amid a renewed Israeli war that is open-ended in both time and geography, nearly two decades after the July 2006 war and the adoption of United…

With the war between the Israel-US duo and the Islamic Republic in Iran entering its third week two questions are asked in policy circles across the world. The first is: how long will it last? The answer is: how long is a string? Which means: because no one knows, no speculation is warranted. …

We are seeing growing signs, both diplomatic and military, that the confrontation along the Lebanese-Israeli border may be on the verge of entering a phase unlike anything Lebanon has known in years. Behind the scenes, conversations among political and military officials suggest that Lebanon may be…

It seems to me that Europe has had enough of Donald Trump's foreign policy, and I see its response to Trump's call for European participation in securing the Strait of Hormuz as one reflection of its exasperation. Consider this: mere hours before their dispute over the strait erupted, the EU…

The premise suggests that in its war against Iran, the United States is trying to entangle Gulf states alongside it, only to later abandon them. The question is: Could President Donald Trump walk away from the war with Iran, leave the region, and abandon Gulf countries to face Tehran on their own? …

Many Lebanese are reaching for well-known historical episodes these days: the repeated partitions of Poland resulting from its position between Russia and Germany, for example, or Belgium's neutrality in the Second World War, which the Nazis disregarded in their sweeping assault on its democratic…

Despite the alarm stirred by Goldman Sachs's recent forecast of a regional recession this year, state revenue may be a more useful benchmark than GDP for assessing the impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran on Saudi Arabia's economy and the Gulf states more broadly. Indeed, the primary driver of…

Despite the anger of the MAGA base, President Donald Trump has not acquiesced to their demands. Despite the repeated claim that Trump does nothing without the approval of his base, he has shown that he does not always comply with the wishes of this powerful constituency. He showed in Gaza,…