World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The Biden administration’s position on the recent developments in Syria, where extremist militias led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Al-Nusra Front) are making gains, seems to suggest more than mere indifference to the chaos unfolding there. True, Türkiye is the primary beneficiary of these…

As global attention this week converges on Riyadh for the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, known as COP16, the urgency to combat land degradation and desertification takes center stage. For the Near East and North Africa region, where…

The speech by the new Hezbollah Secretary-General, Sheikh Naim Qassem, was extremely important for several reasons, in terms of both its timing and content. Broadcast on Saturday, it was Sheikh Naim's first speech after the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, which was brokered by the United States…

Those awaiting an Axis of Resistance critique that addresses Hezbollah's war and the reasons for its defeat, or that merely acknowledges this defeat, will likely be disappointed. Despite the catastrophic developments that have just unfolded, "declaring victory" remains the narrative on this front…

It is as if this difficult part of the world is destined to live with constant bloodshed. Countries break apart, wars are never really resolved, and peace is only really just a truce. We have witnessed the horrors in Gaza and later, Lebanon. The barbarity of the Israeli attacks demonstrated that…

The president-elect follows the markets closely. He bragged frequently about how well stocks performed in his first term in office, and said they had boomed this year in anticipation of his return to the White House. Since Election Day, a great deal of financial analysis has been devoted to one…

Almost five years after Covid blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out. The H5N1 avian flu, having mutated its way across species, is raging out of control among the nation’s…

Over the course of this conflict, one of our era’s longest, wars were temporarily or permanently stopped through ceasefire agreements and arrangements. They were often concluded through foreign intervention crowned by a Security Council resolution. The most recent ceasefire agreement was concluded…

It is true that the recent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon is a replica of agreements made over the past forty years, all of which failed to prevent subsequent wars. However, this war and this agreement differ from previous ones, and we might witness its implementations starting next…

Will cataclysms caused by wars in Gaza and Lebanon lead to a review of Iran’s military presence in the Levant? Judging by the buzz in Tehran political circles, echoed in the official media, the answer may be yes. Four factors may have pushed a review higher on the agenda. First, feeling more…

Will the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain a fantasy, or will it become a reality after the request for "full compliance" with the arrest warrants for him and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was issued by the International Criminal Court? Both are accused of…

We have been seeing a new term for a few years now, especially since Al-Aqsa Flood: "anti-Rejectionism;" it suggests that the thoughts and actions of the two opposing sides are governed by the same logic. Those who use this term are implying that their stance represents a synthesis of the two that…