World News Insights: Opinion Articles

All of this is happening for the first time. Israel has been waging a multi-front war for ten months, a war it does not have the capacity to decide. Lebanese Hezbollah has been waging a "support war" for ten months, and it claims this war will only end once the Israeli assault on Gaza stops. A…

The scene before us is extremely fluid. From Washington to Gaza, and from Tehran to Ukraine, we find signs that, unless everyone wakes up to the gravity of these ongoing shifts, a dangerous moment of madness is imminent. Take the divisions in the United States and the Democratic Party, for example…

Complex questions occupy the minds of the Sudanese. Those are not only related to when the war will stop, but also to how it will end, through which kind of agreements, and to the fate of the two warring sides. Will they return as if nothing had happened, sharing power, wealth and influence...? …

According to the Iranian constitution, the transition period is to last fifty days, and this stipulation was applied to the letter. There was no delay; fifty days after President Ebrahim Raisi's passing, Masoud Pezeshkian was elected Iran’s new president. Meanwhile, Lebanon has not elected a new…

Last week, Republicans were back under the Republican Party’s convention limelight in Milwaukee. This time they looked as determined to send Donald J Trump to the White House in November as they were in 2016. Eight years ago, Trump looked like a bolt out of the blue that though threatening the…

From the US to all four corners of the globe, everyone is recalibrating their positions after the shots were fired in Pennsylvania. Former President Donald Trump miraculously escaped death, but the bullets wounded President Biden and his party. The repercussions of the failed assassination attempt…

The door to reassessments and reflections on violence was opened wide immediately after the failed attempt to assassinate Donald Trump. The history of the United States, as we well know, is brimming with violence, particularly against the "red" indigenous population and the Afro-American “blacks.”…

Traveling on a ship that hardly fits all the people crammed into it, over turbulent waters amid poor weather conditions, one could get used to the seasickness with time, patiently enduring the discomfort. The passenger might even catch the virus of indifference. Suddenly, however, a wild storm hits…

If the President of the United States were not a leader who has an impact on all our lives, the physical and mental health of President Joe Biden would not have drawn all the attention it has received, nor would we have heard all this noise or comments. This reminds me of 1982, when Israeli…

Leading the race to the White House is one thing, and booking a prominent place in history is another. History is an eraser that only those who leave unremovable marks can resist. To book a place in history, an American president must write his own story and turn it into a decisive chapter of his…

Sixty-six years have passed since the 14 July Revolution in 1958, an event that still sparks debate among Iraqis. Some support the shift to a republic, while others argue a monarchy is better for Iraq’s complexities. While I won’t judge the event itself, its deep-rooted causes, or its aftermath,…

For a week now, democrats around the world have been celebrating France’s immense victory. Democracy succeeded in preventing the extremist National Rally party from obtaining a parliamentary majority, even denying it first and second place. Strikingly, however, many of those who are now praising…