World News Insights: Opinion Articles

As Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken flew to Mongolia on July 31, his mind was on events far away, in the Middle East. Hours earlier, Israel had assassinated a top Hamas leader in Tehran, and Iranian officials were vowing retaliation for the murder of a close ally on their soil. Using a secure…

When someone is described as "having his voice heard," it means he is influential or powerful. The voice is a tool of power and empowerment, and because it is so, those who object or make demands "raise their voices." If their demands are not met, they raise their voices even higher, eventually…

Where will Benjamin Netanyahu take Israel? Where will he take the Middle East and United States? His rivals in Israel are warning that he is not concerned with a ceasefire unless it is preceded by a victory. They are warning that he is costing Israel too many losses. His opponents have failed to…

The guiding principle in our region, historically shaped by the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict, was once “land for peace.” This concept served as the legal interpretation of UN Security Council Resolution 242, which was seen as a foundation for peace. Today, however, we face a new reality: …

Under the patronage of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the third Global Artificial Intelligence Summit will take place in Riyadh on Sept. 10-12, featuring more than 300 speakers and the participation of some of the most prominent experts in the field worldwide. Saudi Arabia’s interest in AI…

In one of those outbursts that he specializes in Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for the US Presidency, called his Democrat rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris, a “Communist.” Since I doubt that Ms. Harris has anything but the faintest notion about Communism, a zombie ideology that…

The seven southern towns that were cut off of Lebanon during the French Mandate, and have now become Israeli settlements, remain in the Lebanese collective memory, particularly that of the South. There are several reasons to remember these towns, given the emerging threats to geographic integrity…

For two years, a rural town in the middle of Michigan has been embroiled in a civil war over plans by a Chinese-owned electric vehicle battery company to build a $2.4 billion factory. On Tuesday, the local furor collided with presidential politics as the Trump campaign sought to leverage anti-China…

Sometimes, we are seized by a moralistic tendency to generate an ideal version of reality in which good unites with good to confront evil which, in turn, also unites with evil. On both sides, what is smaller and belongs to lower rank lines up behind what is larger and of a higher rank. However,…

Even before Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, William Casey, who would later become among the most prominent intelligence chiefs in the US, coined the term "October Surprise" in 1980, the concept had already been a reality on the ground. In the fall of 1956, the Suez War and the Hungarian Uprising…

This June, I was invited on a friend’s podcast to answer a question I’ve been asked over and over again in the Trump era. Are Christians really persecuted in the United States of America? Millions of my fellow evangelicals believe we are, or they believe we’re one election away from a crackdown…

Iraq is undergoing a significant transformation in its foreign policy, with a focus on achieving national sovereignty, economic integration, and diplomatic balance. Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani’s administration has embarked on reshaping Iraq’s role in the region, positioning the country…