World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Every year, people around the world stand before the "emperor of maladies" in fear and reverence and ask: How far have we come in the fight to eradicate this disease? How much longer will it continue to take our lives and instill fear in our hearts? What progress has science made in recent years? …

There have been many mass marches in history, and they have been turned into material for myths and mystification and constitute a trove of wealth for the imagination. Mass gatherings of people stir the same emotions and images as the difficult paths paved with pain that they traverse. The point of…

Even the most seasoned among us journalists are currently witnessing a historic moment. I believe that we have not seen anything like this since the emergence of the new world order following the Cold War... perhaps even since the end of World War II. We have not seen the foundations of…

Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa's choice of Saudi Arabia as the destination of his first foreign visit aimed to deliver blunt messages inside Syria and beyond. This isn’t only about Saudi Arabia being an economic and political heavyweight on the Arab, Islamic and international levels, but…

It was March 1994, more than two years after the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the debates within the US Embassy in Moscow were heated. Diplomats in the economic section, backed by the Treasury Department in Washington, argued ardently that radical free-market reforms were the only path for post…

The situation is developing rapidly in the Sudanese arena. Over the past two weeks, the army has made significant advances at the expense of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the states of Al-Jazira and Khartoum, shifting the balance of military power. The army, along with allied groups- among…

Is American democracy at risk? Two overarching complexes are closing in on it, threatening to strip the United States of its crown jewel- its very essence and the foundation it has been built upon since the Declaration of Independence. Americans have long taken pride in, and loudly championed,…

As Ahmad Al-Sharaa is inaugurated as Syria’s president, the country enters a new phase. Syria, which had endured years of coups—so much so that it was said Syrians could anticipate them before they happened due to the constant conflicts among military comrades—later transitioned into a Stalinist…

"Trump in Tehran!" This is the name of an operetta imagined by some American advocates of Realpolitik calling themselves Council on Foreign Relations rather than the sobriquet that G.K. Chesterton would have suggested: The Club of Queer Trades. The “Real” part of the English-German cliché is…

In a week of swift military shifts, the Sudanese Armed Forces have completed the liberation of Bahri city, except for a few pockets that are currently being cleared. At the same time, there is little left to do to recapture Khartoum, and the army is advancing towards the capital from several…

The "beneficial outcome" (or at least one of them) of the "harmful" “Al-Aqsa Flood," might be that it rid us of the idea that force is the solution to the Israel problem. Neither our many wars nor our resistance movements achieved their mission. As for the things that should be said, they…

Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all…