World News Insights: Opinion Articles

There must be some connection between the “Project 2025: Mandate for Leadership – The Conservative Promise,” prepared by the Heritage Foundation, and Donald Trump’s domestic and foreign policies. I reviewed it – it’s about a thousand pages long. When asked about it during his presidential…

Sudanese political parties and movements have long suffered from factionalism, but this problem is now at its peak. No party has managed to remain intact, and some have fragmented into small factions that are difficult to reunite. The war, which has been raging for nearly two years now, deepened…

Tehran is nervous both regionally and internationally. Its dilemma deepens as its options narrow and its friends disappear, whether deliberately or out of self-interest. It has few friends, as nations are driven by interests, not friendship or ideology. These friends, burdened by an array of…

“Make Germany Great Again!” It was with this slogan that Friedrich Merz emerged as the main victor in last Sunday’s general election in Germany. Sounds familiar? To be exact, the man who is set to become Germany’s next Chancellor borrowed the phrase made popular by Donald Trump in the United…

Two major phenomena/catastrophes have weighed on the Levant for decades: one is military coups and security states that grew out of them- Syria and Iraq were its two theatres- and the next is militia groups whose main presence was in Lebanon. These two phenomena, although their last representatives…

Discussing the reconstruction of Gaza without its inhabitants, the Mar-a-Lago resort could serve as an alternative for Gaza’s residents. Since the goal is to turn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East," it would only make sense to house them in another resort so they can later adapt to life in…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abdullah Ocalan’s new initiative to end the five-decade-long conflict in Türkiye seems serious. If successful, it could completely reshape dynamics across the region. The objective of Turkish leaders is clear: disarming the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), de-securitizing…

Musa Abu Marzouk, the head of Hamas’ foreign relations office, told The New York Times that he would not have supported the October 7 attack on Israel had he known the scale of destruction it would bring to Gaza. He also indicated that there is some willingness within Hamas to negotiate the future…

One month after President Trump was sworn in for a second term, Democratic despair and denial are giving way to an angry message from party activists and voters to their leaders. Do something. Across the country, anti-Trump protests and fiery town halls are flickering back to life. In polling…

Hezbollah held a mass funeral for its former Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, and his successor, Hashem Safi al-Din, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on February 23. A measured reading of the scene would be of use. It should be approached with a cold political mind and without sentiment or…

A journalist can occasionally be plagued by a certain subject during their career. It seems I have been cursed with the issue of assassinations. I was very close to danger during one assassination and was on the other line of the phone when one figure was assassinated. Add to that that…

Two notable developments unfolded last week. The first was Reuters admitting- an entire week after the fact- that it had published a misleading report about Jordan’s King Abdullah II’s statements during his meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. The report had sparked a baseless…