Opinion

The president is struggling, but his challenger is no spring chicken, and the Senate has been described as a nursing home. The US political system seems fairly fixed, so can the young break through?

At the NATO summit in Washington, D.C., Blinken announced that the first batch of F-16 fighter jets would be sent to Ukraine. But is it too little, too late?

The Middle East remains a region where leaders ride to power in tanks and then chain themselves to the structure of the state itself.

An imprisoned Kurdish leader and fears of a permanent Kurdish presence in Syria's north could lead to talks between two of the Middle East's longest serving rulers.

The Kingdom's carbons are still performing and surprising, while its huge investment portfolio is top of the table. With such an ambitious economic transformation to pay for, this is just as well.

NATO leaders will want reassurance that Biden has the mental strength and physical stamina to fulfil one of the world's most demanding leadership roles

Algeria's efforts to stymie the five-member union with a three-member breakaway group have been thankfully thwarted

In an organisation whose five members seem to be forever fighting, agreeing on anything is an achievement. The election of a please-all technocrat lets all parties sleep at night.

Instead of instilling fear into the group, Hezbollah has only escalated the magnitude, intensity, and reach of its attacks on Israel

The progression toward a more just and humane society is not a given. Society can relapse into old and draconian systems of governance.

Our July edition goes in search of Gaza's next structure and asks whether Israel will turn its tanks north towards Lebanon, while also hearing from 'Putin's mind' on Trump and Biden.

Iran's president is simply a figurehead; its foreign policy lies in the hands of the Supreme Leader