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Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a "Get Out the Vote" rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, on February 17, 2024. AFP
Politics

Will the Supreme Court rescue Trump's presidential bid?

A hearing at the United States Supreme Court gripped the country in early February, as lawyers for Colorado were defending a decision there to…

Aqeel Abbas 20 February , 2024
A serious game plan to advance a two-state solution with unified support from the US and its regional partners would help turn the tide against Iran and those who support it. shutterstock
Politics

A harder line on Iran is necessary for lasting Middle East peace

More than four months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the human toll continues to mount in Gaza, and the opportunity costs for wider regional…

Brian Katulis 20 February , 2024
Will Israel defy global cries against Rafah assault?
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Will Israel defy global cries against Rafah assault?

Fares Garabet 19 February , 2024
El-Dabaa is Egypt’s first nuclear power plant. Egyptian Nuclear Power Plants Authority
Business & Economy

Dabaa nuclear power plant puts Egypt on the global clean energy map

Global energy markets are currently disrupted by the supply difficulties caused by the high tensions in the Red Sea and the attacks on shipping by…

Marcelle Nasr 19 February , 2024
Where once Middle Eastern states took little interest in this war-torn Arabic-speaking state on the Horn of Africa, today it is a key arena for Middle Eastern foreign policy and, at times, competition. Nash Weerasekera
Politics

The Middle East’s growing interest in Somalia

As global attention remains fixed on Israel's war on Gaza, a less-reported crisis is bubbling up at the other end of the Red Sea that could prove…

Christopher Phillips 19 February , 2024
Syrian President Hafez al-Assad (C) is applauded by his Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam (R) and Syrian deputies on 11 March 1999 in Damascus. SANA/AFP
Documents & Memoirs

Hafez al-Assad: ‘Al-Zoubi betrayed me, hold him accountable’

It was a single shot to the head that killed Mahmoud al-Zoubi, the prime minister of Syria from 1987 to 2000. Officially, he killed himself. Some…

Ibrahim Hamidi 19 February , 2024
Opinion

Every Israeli accusation is a confession

There is a saying making the rounds that "every Israeli accusation is a confession", and it couldn't be more true amidst the backdrop of its brutal…

Nikolaos van Dam 19 February , 2024
Opinion

Gaza horrors expose the lie of universal human rights

For all the talk of universal human rights and justice, it doesn't amount to much if perpetrators of war crimes are protected from prosecution and…

Houssam Itani 18 February , 2024
Israel's war on Gaza will either send the region spiralling into an intractable war or can be a turning point for a better future for all. Saudi Arabia can play a key role in achieving the latter. Sara Gironi Carnevale
Politics

The Middle East stands at a crossroads between two futures

The terrible war on Gaza marks a pivotal juncture for the Middle East. The region is at a crossroads between a path leading to escalation, chaos and…

Ibrahim Hamidi 18 February , 2024
Hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18 km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia on Feb. 17, 2011. AP
Politics

How the Sahel became a breeding ground for terrorists

The Islamic State (IS) group has been the focus of intense global scrutiny since 2014 when it started taking territory in northwest Iraq and…

Abdullah F. Alrebh 18 February , 2024
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Shaky Israel-Iran ceasefire points to unfinished business

24 June 2025

What Trump has dubbed the '12-Day War' could be just the opening salvo of a much longer conflict

Michael Horowitz
Emergency workers check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba in southern Israel on June 24, 2025. John Wessels / AFP
Business & Economy

Counting the cost of the Israel-Iran war

24 June 2025

The recent Israel-Iran war is not just a regional flashpoint; it is a mirror reflecting the fragility and interdependence of the modern global economy

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
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Attacks on Iran make a nuclear bomb more likely

20 June 2025

Iran's nuclear programme is damaged, but its determination is heightened

Eric Brewer
Opinion

Israeli and Iranian claims of victory ring hollow

25 June 2025

Netanyahu did not realise his goal of ending Iran's nuclear programme and regime change, and Iran stood alone in its war with Israel, as global and regional allies left it to fend for itself

Houssam Itani
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

Ali Khamenei: the guardian of Iran'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

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