Khamenei's killing opens up a strategic abyss

Gulf states' delicate balancing act—maintaining security partnerships with the US while cautiously reopening channels to Iran—has been shattered

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy

France’s Gamble

[caption id="attachment_55254413" align="aligncenter" width="900"] US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) shake hands ahead of a working lunch, at the US ambassador's…

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Hezbollah Won; Hezbollah Lost

[caption id="attachment_55254409" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, speaks during a ceremony on the eve of the tenth…

Hanin Ghaddar

How Saudi Arabia Is Stepping Up in Iraq

by Firas Maksad, Kenneth M. Pollack Some of the best news to come from the Middle East in a long time is the recent and long-overdue improvement in relations between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. It…

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Pay Up, Europe

[caption id="attachment_55254385" align="aligncenter" width="682"] Donald Trump during the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit in Brussels(Picture by Christophe Licoppe/Photonews via…

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Why Does ISIS Spare Italy?

[caption id="attachment_55254370" align="aligncenter" width="3386"] Salvatore Lucania, called Lucky Luciano (1897-1962), gangster of sicilian mafia (with handcuffs and cigaret) leaving the court in…

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The “Great Firewall” of China

[caption id="attachment_55254366" align="aligncenter" width="900"] People congregate and take photographs at a make-shift tribute outside the Google Inc. office in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, Jan…

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