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Baghdad is relieved because it managed to avoid falling into several traps. Iraqi factions entertained the idea of expanding the conflict in wake of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation in Gaza and opening of the “support front” in Lebanon. However, internal advice and external warnings steered Iraq clear…

Last week, global and regional media outlets focused on President Donald Trump’s visit to Riyadh, Doha, and Abu Dhabi. Some of the piles of analysis we saw were objective and fact-based; others were fanciful and prejudiced. Some theories have now been shown to be misguided. One is the theory…

It has become common knowledge that Benjamin Netanyahu did not hesitate to mobilize the far right, in both its nationalist and religious wings, in a campaign against the Oslo Accords and Yitzhak Rabin. The latter was portrayed wearing the uniform of a Nazi officer in an infamous poster by this…

If you are under pressure to do something but know that you can’t do anything, what do you do? Well, you do nothing but to appear to be doing something you invoke grand principles and grand sentiments. This is what French President Emmanuel Macron and his Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot have…

It is difficult to get the Sudanese people to agree on any political question. Continuous debate, unending disputes, and entrenched polarization have long defined the Sudanese political landscape. That has been the case since Sudan gained its independence nearly seven decades ago at the latest. …

The sanctions imposed by the United States on the Bashar al-Assad regime have been top of Syrians’ minds in the past five months since following the regime’s swift collapse in December 2024. The expectation had been that these sanctions would be lifted after the regime they had targeted was toppled…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claims that Washington’s demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium are "excessive and outrageous," accusing the US of demonstrating "sheer arrogance.I don't think nuclear talks with the US will bring results. I don't know what will happen," Khamenei added. He…

Recent events in Libya have once again laid bare security and other actors’ persistent failure to uphold international humanitarian and human rights law and underlines the urgent need to break cycles of violence and impunity. The blatant disregard for fundamental human rights is not only a moral…

President Donald Trump’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last week exceeded expectations, putting Saudi-American relations on a new trajectory. A series of major agreements were signed, reflecting the extraordinary alignment of the two nations’ interests and reaffirming the Kingdom’s status…

Let us forget, for a moment, that the president of the United States is the most powerful political leader in the world, and that he can annihilate humanity at the press of a button or obliterate the global economy with an “executive order.” For a moment, let us put that to one side and focus,…

It is difficult to single out one aspect of US President Donald Trump’s pivotal visit to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, as the most prominent or important. The visit was clearly not merely made for investment deals alone. Rather, it amounts to a turning point that consolidates…

Baghdad has the unusual ability to force its visitor to open up about the past and its pains. The ability becomes more pronounced when the friends choose to have dinner on the banks of the Tigris only to find out that the current resort was once one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces. I believe people…