Opinion

Iraqi protesters raise signs reading in Arabic "#WillNotSurrender to loose arms", during a demonstration outside outside the Basra local government headquarters last month
The Iraqi protests: a critical view
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Diyari Salih
A demonstrator holds a placard during a protest against Turkish government's recent refugee policies in Istanbul
Can the world afford changing the rules on refugees?
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by his wife Emine, arrives at Ataturk airport
EU’s blind eye to Turkey may prove costly
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Yavuz Baydar
A members of Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) walks past a poster at the militia group’s media centre in Baghdad, July 2
Iran-backed PMF militias extend their role beyond Iraqi ‘national defence’
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Nazli Tarzi
Tunisian military officers escort the coffin of late President Beji Caid Essebsi during his state funeral at the presidential palace in Tunis, July 27
Beji Caid Essebsi’s legacy
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Oussama Romdhani
A police officer shows drug pills at a police station in Basra, Iraq
Religious sermons warn of the drug threat in Iraq
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Diyari Salih
Russian military cargo plane carrying S-400 missile defence system from Russia to the Murted military airbase in Ankara
What history teaches us about Turkey’s purchase of Russia’s S-400 system
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Yavuz Baydar
Israeli policemen detain a member of the Abu Asab family as he protested their eviction by the police from the house they lived in for decades, in the Old City of Jerusalem
How the Goliath of the Jerusalem settler movement persuaded the world it’s really David
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Jonathan Cook
The logo of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia
Why conspiracy theories thrive in the Middle East
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Claude Salhani
Saudi Arabia’s new Ambassador to the United States Princess Reema bint Bandar bin Sultan (R) presents her credentials to US President Donald Trump in Washington
Momentum building for stronger US-Saudi ties
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Iman Zayat
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi
The day Tunisia stood still
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Oussama Romdhani
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak (L), Venezuela’s Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo (R) and Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih at an OPEC+ meeting in Vienna
Extensions of output cuts raise questions about OPEC’s future
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Jareer Elass
A son of a Houthi supporter sits on the back of a truck with food aid in Sana’a
The Houthis’ real enemy is their own people
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Iman Zayat
Young teachers take part in a protest demanding their integration in the civil service as employees of the education ministry in Rabat
Medium-term prospects are uneven across Maghreb
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Francis Ghiles
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner
Trump’s peace plan has been designed to fail – exactly like its predecessors
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Jonathan Cook
Workers carry signs in solidarity with Mourad Eulmi, the head of the Algerian family-owned firm SOVAC, a partner of Volkswagen AG, questioned in court about corruption accusations in Algiers
Algeria’s generals fail to see turmoil’s toll on economy
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Francis Ghiles
Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate of Turkey’s secular opposition Republican People’s Party, makes a statement after his election victory, in Istanbul, June 23, 2019
Will Istanbul results finally see Turkey’s CHP get it together?
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Stephen Starr
The Pardis petrochemical complex facilities is seen in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran
Iran’s petrochemical ambitions in tatters after new wave of US sanctions
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Jareer Elass
Netanyahu's electoral magic may be deserting him
Forget Trump’s 'deal of the century'. Israel was always on course to annexation
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Jonathan Cook
People watch a live broadcast of a televised debate between Istanbul's mayoral candidate Binali Yildirim (R) and Istanbul's deposed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu (L)
What the Istanbul election could tell us
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Stephen Starr
London Mayor Sadiq Khan (R) and British Home Secretary Sajid Javid
In Trump’s world, there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ European Muslims
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Imamoglu’s rise on the political scene is an existential threat to Erdogan and his ruling party
Will Imamoglu score victory in Istanbul election again?
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Yavuz Baydar
Popular Mobilization Forces
Iraq's security heart is still troubled
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Diyari Salih
An Iranian woman works on her laptop in Tehran
Tehran tangled in web of disinformation
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Claude Salhani
Should anyone but Binyamin Netanyahu be elected Israeli prime minister in the next go-round, the landscape could change considerably
US peace plan comes unglued over Israel’s election rerun
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Kelly Kennedy
A Saudi soldier stands guard at the press centre for the Arab and Islamic summits in Mecca, May 30
Iran’s ‘non-aggression’ talk fools no one
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Iman Zayat
Leaders of Islamic countries pose for a group picture ahead of Islamic Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early Saturday, June 1, 2019
Mecca summits reflect Arabs' defensive strategy towards Iran
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Khairallah Khairallah
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) speaks with King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh
Arab states exercise restraint as US-Iran tensions simmer
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Iman Zayat
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they pose on the West Wing colonnade in the Rose Garden at the White House
Trump and Netanyahu share similar bluster but want no war with Iran
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Gregory Aftandilian
A view of a street in Vilvoorde, Belgium
This European country’s deradicalisation plan actually works
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Stephen Starr