Opinion

An Iraqi protester clad with the national flag takes part in anti-government protests at Tahrir square in Baghdad
Protests are reviving the concept of the state in Iraq
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Diyari Salih
Qasem Soleimani
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Trump has thrown the dice. Now Tehran’s turn
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Martin Jay
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a ceremony in Ankara
List of friends shrinks as Turkey pursues aggressive policies
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Francis Ghiles
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Is Erdoğan’s Turkey a rogue state?
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Yavuz Baydar
Symbolic graves adorned with names and pictures of anti-government protesters, who have been killed in protests at Baghdad's Tahrir Square
Elusive consensus on prime minister makes early Iraqi elections more likely
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Azhar Al-Rubaie
A woman covers her face with the national flag, as Algerian protesters demonstrate in the capital Algiers against ailing president's bid for a fifth term on March 8, 2019.
Arab street protests are not about ideology
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Ali Qassem
Some political parties are now announcing some names, affirming that those figures are adopted by public opinion.
Iraq's new generation takes change into their hands
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Diyari Salih
US President Donald Trump
New US policy on West Bank Settlements buries two-state solution
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Claude Salhani
Rohingya refugees watch on a mobile phone a live feed of Myanmar's State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi's appearance at the UN's International Court of Justice in the Hague
Gambia’s case for Rohingyas underlines shared humanity
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Ankara clashes with EU as it flexes muscles in Mediterranean
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Thomas Seibert
A Lebanese anti-government protester wears a gas mask in Beirut
Time for political change in Lebanon
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Ali al-Amin
An Iraqi anti-government demonstrator shows a basket full of empty bullet cartridges found in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square
Iraqi government sanctioned militia’s killing of protesters
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
A militia leader in politician’s disguise
How effective are US sanctions on Iran-linked militias in Iraq?
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James Snell
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at his Likud Party headquarters in Tel Aviv
Next chapter in ‘Deal of the Century’: Israeli annexation of Jordan Valley
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Geoffrey Aronson
US President Donald Trump (L) and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R)
Erdogan uses NATO rifts to buy time
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Yavuz Baydar
Iranian women walk past a bus station in Tehran
Objectification of women in Iran
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Mona Silavi
US President Donald Trump
Trump is dismantling the international order
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James Zogby
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan uses religion, fear to stay politically afloat
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Yavuz Baydar
Illegal Israeli settlements
Israeli history offers lessons for Palestinian leaders
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
US President Donald Trump
Iran crisis may make Trump look like Lord of War. But can he take the blowback?
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Martin Jay
Lebanese protesters carry national flags as they take part in anti-government demonstrations in central Beirut
There is light at the end of the tunnel for Lebanon
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Khairallah Khairallah
Donald J. Trump is indeed the definition of a deluge and we, the American people, are present-day Venice; we are, that is, six feet under water, even if we don’t quite know it.
Après moi, le déluge...
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Tom Engelhardt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Is Netanyahu ready to inflame war to escape his legal troubles?
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Jonathan Cook
A Syrian government soldier holds up a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad and a Syrian national flag while another stands by a Kurdish YPG flag
In Syria, PKK mimics Assad’s propaganda
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Kyle Orton
US President Donald Trump
Confusion marks US role in north-eastern Syria
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Gregory Aftandilian
US President Donald Trump meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his accompanying delegation
Back against the wall, Erdogan battles to win time
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Yavuz Baydar
Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash speaks during a press conference in Dubai
Seeking a new approach to Gulf security
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Gareth Smyth
Oval meeting
Turkey’s Erdogan scores a pyrrhic victory in Washington
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Omer Taspinar
Iran's uranium enrichment
Are sanctions really about hurting Iran or about propping up the US arms industry?
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Jonathan Gornall
In Bolivia, the unrest is about President Evo Morales’s fourth-term election victory, which some describe as a fraud
Arab spring, summer, autumn, winter… worldwide
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Rashmee Roshan Lall