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Culture & Social Affairs

Saad Yakan: I am pessimistic about the future of humanity

For Syrian artist Saad Yakan, painting is how he best expresses himself and where he channels his hope for humanity.His art embodies everything from…

Hoda Salim Al-Muhithawi 01 April , 2024
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield votes abstain during a vote on a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during a United Nations Security Council meeting on 25 March, 2024. AFP
Politics

Why the US abstention in Gaza ceasefire vote matters

It may have taken the United Nations Security Council more than five months to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. But the fact the…

Con Coughlin 01 April , 2024
Palestinians in Gaza are caged and starving
Cartoons

Palestinians in Gaza are caged and starving

Fares Garabet 01 April , 2024
Israel claims to have killed Marwan Issa, the second most wanted man in Hamas, who is believed to be one of the masterminds of the 7 October attacks. Axel Rangel Garcia
Profiles

Marwan Issa: The 'shadow man' of Hamas

The Israeli army told the world it targeted the second most senior leader in the military wing of Hamas in an air strike on the Nuseirat camp in the…

Salem Al Rayyes 31 March , 2024
Mauritania has a big new gas field about to go live and a handy Atlantic location for exports. Add a well-stocked mineral larder, and you have an attractive mix. Sara Gironi Carnevale
Business & Economy

Regional suitors standby as Mauritania’s fortunes look up

Site of the world’s biggest camel and jewellery markets, Mauritania is also said to be home to a million poets, its vast landscapes acting as muse…

Mohamed Sharki 31 March , 2024
A makeshift memorial in front of the Crocus City Hall in Moscow's northern suburb of Krasnogorsk, which was attacked by Islamic State gunmen, killing at least 143 people. Russia blames Ukraine. AFP
Politics

Russia changes tone on Ukraine 'war' after Moscow terror attack

One of the strangest things about Russia’s war on Ukraine has been its insistence on not using the word ‘war’ for the past two years. It was called a…

Samer Elias 31 March , 2024
Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda, suspected of taking part in the attack on a concert hall that killed 137 people in Moscow, which IS-KP claimed, sits inside the defendant's cage on 24 March 2024. AFP
Politics

ISKP: Who are the murky terrorists behind the Moscow concert hall attack?

More than a week on from the horrific scenes broadcast from a Moscow concert venue on the evening of 22 March, the organisation that later claimed…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 30 March , 2024
Opinion

Trump's warning to Israel shows its precarious position

As predicted, Israel is ignoring UN Security Council resolution 2728 passed earlier this week, which called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. …

Houssam Itani 30 March , 2024
Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

Lifting the veil on America's invisible civil war

The United States is sharply divided ahead of November’s general election, which will see the same two candidates face off again. The last one was so…

Shadi Alaa Aldin 30 March , 2024
In this photograph provided by the Syrian news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (L) talks with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell May 3, 2003 in Damascus. Getty
Documents & Memoirs

Khaddam Files: Powell hands al-Assad list of demands

When Syria’s former Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam left for Paris in 2005, he took reams of papers, reports, notes, and files with him.Khaddam…

Ibrahim Hamidi 30 March , 2024
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses Iranians on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (portrait), in Tehran on June 4, 2025. KHAMENEI.IR / AFP
Profiles

How Israel upended Khamenei’s strategic patience doctrine

21 June 2025

For decades, Iran's supreme leader—first Khomeini, then Khamenei—pursued a strategy of backing regional militias to fight Israel, but with the 'resistance axis' in tatters, Iran is left to fight alone

Arash Azizi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

How Israel pulled off its unprecedented strike on Iran

18 June 2025

Years of painstaking intelligence work went into the operation that activated vast networks of operatives and involved multiple layers of subterfuge

Michael Horowitz
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, while gathering with others during a rally in solidarity with the government against Israel's attacks on Iran on June 14, 2025. ATTA KENARE / AFP
Politics

Iran is further from regime change than Israel thinks

17 June 2025

Israel sees an opportunity to eliminate a strategic regional rival, but the future course of events primarily hinges on what Trump decides to do next

Houssam Itani
Michelle Thompson.
Business & Economy

What would happen if Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz?

18 June 2025

The strait carries up to 20% of the world's oil exports at around 20 million barrels of oil each day. Any closure could cost the global economy greatly, even if only for a short time.

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi
Eduardo Ramon
Politics

Will Iran-Israel strikes derail Trump's Mideast vision?

14 June 2025

Trump and Netanyahu disagree on whether to use military force to stop Iran's nuclear programme, and Israel's punishing attack on Iran places the region on a worrisome trajectory

Robert Ford

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