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The unravelling of America’s Iran policy began with a single act of demolition. When Trump withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in...
When the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Egypt landed in Islamabad on March 29, 2026, much of the international media reached for the...
Energy in today’s Middle East is no longer merely an economic resource; it has become a central instrument of power, deterrence and geopolitical...
Three Indonesian soldiers were killed in southern Lebanon in less than 48 hours. They were not fighters. They were part of a United Nations...
Courage and integrity are rarely mentioned in the same breath when it comes to discussing Arab rulers and what are essential qualities of leadership....
This year marked the 50th anniversary of Land Day in colonised Palestine. On 30th March 1976, Israeli forces killed 6 Palestinians protesting against...
While global headlines fixate on the expanding confrontation between Israel and Iran, another story is quietly disappearing from view. It is not only...
The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the...
To understand why some Iraqis today defend the Islamic Republic of Iran with a fervor that borders on devotion, one must return to the...
I filled my car tank this week and paid 40% more than I did just a month ago. That isn’t just an economic abstraction, but another indirect Israeli...
Three weeks ago, this region operated under a set of assumptions that had held, more or less, for forty years. Iran would threaten. Proxies would...
A dangerous new chapter is unfolding in the Middle East, and the world is responding with an uneasy silence. What is emerging around the narrow waters...
“The world cannot preach non-proliferation while practising selective permission. That is not law – it is hierarchy.” The global discourse on...
The skies over Tehran and Natanz may still carry the lingering haze of joint U.S.-Israeli operations. Yet the world, filtered through the dominant...
If Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had died in his bed, from illness or old age, his death could have been more dangerous for the Iranian system...
Truth may well be the first casualty of war, but death, injury and environmental degradation are bound to be keeping up in the hit lists. Attacks on...
The statement issued by the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, announcing the summoning of the US chargé d’affaires and...
For months, a war has been unfolding across Iraq with little of the fanfare that once accompanied American military campaigns in the region. There are...
The escalation of hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran in February 2026 represents one of the most significant geopolitical crises...
I have always found it interesting, and at times revealing, when seasoned activists and intellectuals in the West, including those who see themselves...
When a man with an active arrest warrant for war crimes stands at a podium and explains that ‘Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis...
When tensions escalate between Iran and the United States, attention usually turns to the Gulf, Israel, maritime routes, and oil markets. But that...
With the Strait of Hormuz now effectively disrupted, the world is entering a new phase of energy insecurity. For Indonesia, the consequences are not...
The laziest word in Western commentary on Iran is not “theocracy,” “proxy,” or even “threat.” It is “hardliner.” Its compulsory twin,...
When tensions escalate between Iran and the United States, attention usually turns to the Gulf, Israel, maritime routes, and oil markets. But that...
The most exalted UN creation – the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees – is being isolated by the UN. While Israel destroyed...
It’s almost not worth considering, but precisely because it comes from the White House, the mad manoeuvrings and silly airings of the US President...
The conflict between two opposing forces ends when one of them decisively loses or gains in power. Faced with the horror of the occupation’s...
US President Donald Trump did not invent the phrase “fake news,” but he undoubtedly transformed it into a political weapon, relentlessly accusing...
Understanding the crisis Since 2023, Tunisia’s education system has been repeatedly disrupted by strikes, grade boycotts, and escalating...