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Kuwaiti military helicopters perform during an airshow to mark the country's 63rd Independence Day celebrations in Kuwait City on February 26, 2024. YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP

At 64, Kuwait still faces many of the same challenges

As Kuwait marks its National Day, it continues to grapple with the lingering effects of past crises while confronting new economic, political, and security challenges

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 25, Feb 2025
Iraqis in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad. AFP

Agree to disagree: Just how 'national' are Iraq's national days?

In a country where nationalism is subordinate to religious and ethnic identity, a new law could have helped build a sense of 'Iraq'. If only its political class were not so addicted to disagreement.

Ayad Al-Anbar 28, May 2024
Members of the pro-independence Taiwan Statebuilding Party burn a Chinese flag on boat trip in the Taiwan Strait in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 1, 2022. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Flag Raisings and Burnings in Taiwan as Some Mark China's National Day

Two small Taiwanese groups at far ends of the debate over relations with Beijing marked China's national day on Saturday with flag raisings and flag burnings, very opposite responses at a time of…

01, Oct 2022
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PKK guerrillas scan for firing positions as they conduct military exercises in the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdish autonomous region, 18 November 2006. DAVID FURST / AFP
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What next after historic PKK decision to disband?

11 May 2025

Türkiye hailed the move to dissolve what it deems a terrorist group that claimed over 40,000 lives, but vows the fight would continue should the process collapse

Omer Onhon
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Business & Economy

Trump's 'big' agenda in Saudi Arabia

11 May 2025

A high-powered delegation will accompany him on his first official foreign trip of his second term as US president, reflecting a diverse agenda, spanning trade, defence and geopolitics

Maher Chmaytelli
Kashmiri men react after the ceasefire announcement between India and Pakistan, in Srinagar May 10, 2025. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali
Politics

A nerve-wracking ceasefire holds between India and Pakistan—for now

11 May 2025

Tensions will simmer even as they step back from full-blown war

The Economist
Culture & Social Affairs

The Israel-Palestine 'conflict' through the lens of novelists

12 May 2025

Palestinian novelists continue to tell their stories, demanding the attention of a world that has often looked away. Meanwhile, Israeli writers grapple with existential questions and self-doubt.

Samir Qasimi
Brian Stauffer
Politics

What if the US-Iran talks fail?

05 May 2025

Trump's approach to Iran is high risk, high reward

Arash Azizi

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