World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Wars are no longer confined to their battlegrounds. Social media has granted them the opportunity to infiltrate far-off places. It’s enough for a person to look at their phone to learn about a massacre taking place thousands of kilometers away. The world can no longer claim ignorance over…

The collapse of the Assad regime raised many questions on the Arab world and beyond. Conspiracy theories have been dug up to explain the speed of this collapse, but the sequence of events, the conditions of the regime, the opposition’s popularity, and the regional support it received all made clear…

The reformist and conservative wings of Iran’s political elite and ruling class converge around former Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Driven by imperial aspirations to retrieve Iran’s historical strategic orbit, the 1979 regime developed its geopolitical narrative by fusing imperial and…

Iraq’s designation of Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis (Ansar Allah) as terrorist organizations, whose assets must therefore be confiscated, was a warm-up for ending the era of Iranophilic militias. Swiftly walking this step back, under the flimsy pretext that the designation had been made …

How does the US see its role in global politics at least for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s tenure at the White House? That is the question that following a procedure followed by all presidents since the 1970s the just published National Security Strategy wishes to address. The new…

Libya faces a catastrophic threat that could shatter its national identity. After already losing its political identity with the emergence of “the State of Libya” (a term whose meaning is unclear: is it a republic, a “Jamahiriya,” or a monarchy), an prolonged vacuum in the presidency and the…

The American administration’s decision to impose sanctions on the network recruiting Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a step in the right direction. These measures address a fundamental driver of the conflict and civilian suffering: the role of foreign…

Lebanon finds itself in an unenviable political and military situation. At this difficult stage of its modern history, the US is exerting unprecedented political pressure; not a day goes by without an Israeli assault, and Hezbollah, the party primarily concerned, is not backing down. In fact,…

Most of all in the Gaza Strip, but also in Lebanon and Syria, the options have been narrowed down to two, both of which could be named after the two men behind them, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. It is either the American “applying pressure” or the Israeli “being pressured,” per the…

The dynamics of “adaptation” to the regional shift in the Near East have reopened a number of dormant and postponed issues. As Israel’s pursuit of domination persists, the push for “normalization” is accelerating, sometimes in the name of political realism, and at other times in the name of betting…

A year has passed since the fall of the Assad regime. The change has been immense, and its consequences are still unfolding. As the first anniversary approaches, key questions remain unresolved, the most prominent being: Why did Bashar al-Assad and his regime become subservient to Iran so early in…

Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lebanon was not a religious occasion that Lebanese people could simply move beyond and forget. It became a mirror that, in just three days, exposed what Lebanon has been trying to hide for decades. In a country that has mastered the art of adorning ruin, Lebanon suddenly…