Opinion

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
It’s time to tame Erdogan
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Alon Ben-Meir
Amnesty's credibility in tatters
Amnesty’s report on Morocco undermines its credibility
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Saad Guerraoui
Baghdad's Karkh main appeals court building in Baghdad
Iraq’s judiciary is facing a real challenge
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Diyari Salih
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakkol Karman
Why Facebook must remove Tawakkol Karman from its oversight board
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Former National Security Advisor John Bolton listening to US President Donald Trump
'Erdogan doesn't care about ISIS,' Trump tells Bolton
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Ilhan Tanir
US President Donald Trump
US State Department sets a different course than Trump on Libya
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Mona el Mahruki
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan (R) laughs as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L)
Israel's blossoming China ties have become a casualty of superpower rivalry
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Muhammed Nafie
Kurdish fighters
What if US troops stay in KRI?
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Diyari Salih
Fatou Bensouda
Israel and the US step up efforts to intimidate the Hague war crimes court
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Jonathan Cook
US President Donald Trump and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Divide, beat and rule: Trump, Erdogan and mass protest
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David Lepeska
Anti-racism demonstrators take a knee near Toronto Police Headquarters during a march on Saturday, June 6, 2020, protesting the death of George Floyd
Jung’s persona and modern hypocrisy
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Suha Aljundi
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President Erdogan's letter and the EU's farcical reaction
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Yavuz Baydar
Courtroom at Baghdad's Karkh main appeals court building in Baghdad
Can the judiciary save Iraq's future?
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Diyari Salih
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad (R) meeting Iranian PM Mohammad Javad Zarif
The upcoming Middle East upheaval in the post-COVID-19, post-oil crisis world
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Khairallah Khairallah
First aid workers look after a woman suspected of being infected with COVID-19
Turkey’s response to coronavirus has been complete shambles
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US Brigadier General Vincent B. Barker (L) shakes hands with Iraq's Staff Major General Mohammad Fadhel Abbas during the handover ceremony of the K1 air base
Strategic repositioning of troops preserves Washington’s place in Iraq but for how long?
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Syria’s President Bashar Assad and Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meet in Damascus
The upcoming Middle Eastern upheaval
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Khairallah Khairallah
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) inspects medical facilities under construction
Erdogan is using the pandemic to fight his political rivals
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Baha al-Awam
Mustafa al-Kadhimi (L)
What is Kadhimi’s real plight?
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Diyari Salih
Workers at Egypt’s agriculture and fruit exporting company, Gamco, prepare oranges for export at a factory in Alexandria
Decision to reopen economy sparks fears of wider contagion in Egypt
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Amr Emam
A nurse cares for a new-born baby in a maternity room incubator, in Najaf, Iraq
The face of the world is bound to change after COVID-19
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Khairallah Khairallah
A member of Egypt’s security forces stands on a watchtower in the northern Sinai peninsula, as seen from the Israeli side of the border
Washington casts sceptical eye on Sinai-based MFO
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Geoffrey Aronson
A woman holds pictures of jailed former leader of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Selahattin Demirtas
Lockdown gives Turks a taste of life in Kurdish regions
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Stephen Starr
US troops block a highway in outskirts of Baghdad after a roadside bomb attack
If China were sued over the pandemic, the US should be over Iraq
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Head of Israel’s Blue and White Party Benny Gantz (R) and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu shake hands
Gantz joins Netanyahu in fractured landscape
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Gregory Aftandilian
Moroccan policeman, patrolling as part of a larger combined security force, instructs a man to return home
How Moroccans are coping in the age of the coronavirus
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Saad Guerraoui
17 years on: US and Iraqi generals shake hands during the handover of Qayyarah Airfield West from US-led coalition forces to the Iraqi military
17 years ago, the US' target was Iraq - not its regime
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Khairallah Khairallah
ISIS flag
ISIS urged its followers to avoid Europe like the plague.
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Syrian refugees hold bags of gloves for preventing the coronavirus' spread, in al-Wazzani area in southern Lebanon
Syria’s nightmare is far from over
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Claude Salhani
Family members attend a funeral ceremony in Ankara, March 1, for one of the Turkish soldiers killed in Idlib
Erdogan's invocation of Ottoman history fools no one
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Baha al-Awam