Opinion

Citizens were already peeved at the rising cost of petrol, but the government's reactive response also raises important questions about the point of parliament

The Syrian president addresses the UN General Assembly today, representing a much-changed country from a year ago. But an international opening only puts the onus back on Damascus to deliver

It is not enough to contain militias. The state must strengthen its institutions and army so that decisions about war and peace rest with the state

They present themselves as defenders of Arab and Islamic causes, yet their actions have now brought the threat closer to Mecca itself

After exhausting his military options, the US president has turned instead to economic warfare. But if Yemeni rebels gain the ability to disrupt Red Sea traffic, that could change things

Sarmada was not an unforeseeable tragedy. It was the latest in a series of deadly warnings that should already have pushed Syria's transitional authorities to act

Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate and one of the architects of artificial intelligence, is now warning the world about the very technology he helped…

Washington has succeeded in converting military and economic pressure into a new political reality: an Iran that is less capable of financing its proxies

The seemingly coordinated global condemnation of Israel's settlement activity has raised eyebrows as to why countries are drawing a line now, after years of silence during Israel's brutal war on Gaza

Assala's concert, if it goes ahead, would be an important sign that the government can resist conservative pressure campaigns, but it is not a long-term solution

Under sustained economic and military pressure, Iran may come to the conclusion that nuclear weapons are the ultimate and only guarantee of regime survival

Whether the US president will experience setbacks in the forthcoming midterm elections will largely depend on how he manages the ongoing conflict with Tehran