World News Insights: Opinion Articles

After the defeat of June 5, 1967, the late Libyan journalist Rashad Bashir al-Huni traveled to Cairo and attended the trials of senior Egyptian officers who were held responsible for the defeat. He returned to Libya and wrote an article in *Al-Haqiqa*, the newspaper he edited, titled: “Knights…

Lebanon’s position on the question of negotiations will take shape when the three presidencies converge on a balanced vision of a situation in which lines of longitude intersect with lines of latitude, in the familiar metaphor for unresolved cases. In this context, it can be said that the visit of…

The Gulf summit held in Jeddah last Tuesday came at an extremely sensitive moment that could lay between two truces: a temporary military truce and a political truce that has yet to fully take shape. In such unpredictable moments open final communiques are not merely diplomatic texts, they become…

The Middle East is entering a decisive phase marked by a reengineering of geopolitical balances, particularly in the wake of rapid developments in the trajectory of US–Iran relations and the shifts accompanying Washington’s deterrence doctrine. This complex landscape, in which diplomacy intertwines…

Writers of political fiction have managed to spread the idea of “Talmudic Greater Israel,” taking advantage of the current weakening of Iranian power, which is spreading fear and frustration among Iran’s allies. In my view, we are witnessing an important historical moment: a conflict between two…

Between the natural state and the parallel state that stands in its place, especially in functional terms, the Shiite duo (Hezbollah and Amal Movement) has succeeded in entrenching sectarianism through a distorted iteration of older failed Lebanese models. In truth, the duo’s conduct at the height…

When President Donald Trump triggered the current war against Iran more than 60 days ago, the assumption mostly promoted by Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu, the junior partner in the enterprise, was that the whole thing would be wrapped up within weeks by Tehran implicitly admitting defeat as it…

Like much of the Arab region, Lebanon is currently facing grave dangers. For many years, it has been living with the consequences of a conflict waged from its own territory between the “party of the Iranian axis” based within it and its opponents, entirely separate from the state of “Greater…

The war between the United States and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, along with the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, has brought renewed focus on the role of intelligence in shaping the future of states, presidents, leaders, and…

Major General Al-Nour Al-Qubba’s (Al-Nour Ahmed Adam) defection from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to join the Sudanese army is not a minor military development. His decision raises deep questions about the cohesion and future of these forces amid mounting battlefield pressure and successive…

From the moment Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said that negotiations do not mean relinquishing rights, and that he is prepared to bear responsibility for the choices ahead, it seemed as though the discourse opened a window onto a question deeper than day-to-day politics, one that concerns the very…

A few days ago, the annual report of Vision 2030 was released, marking a journey launched under the leadership of Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman. It set out to define the contours of a nation renewing itself and a society racing against time, placing people, not…