Opinion

US President Donald Trump meets with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC
Trump and Erdogan: An odd couple glued together by calculations
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Yavuz Baydar
Israeli soldiers
Israel is silencing last voices against abuse of Palestinians
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Jonathan Cook
Workers remove scaffolding at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, Qatar
World Cup 2022: Who wants to see the poor die for the rich?
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Suha Aljundi
Demonstrators take to the streets in the capital Algiers to protest against the government
Solutions to the Maghreb’s problems must be homegrown
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Francis Ghiles
Anti-government protesters try to cross the al- Shuhada (Martyrs) bridge in central Baghdad
The battle for Iraq is a battle for the whole region
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Khairallah Khairallah
Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Russian military vehicle on November 8, 2019, during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol
Europe's ambiguous stance on Turkey's Syria incursion
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Baha al-Awam
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri
Hariri positioning himself for a come back to remove ‘new’ Hezbollah president?
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Martin Jay
Palestinians attend Friday prayer during a protest against Jewish settlements near Yata, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
How Trump’s Deal of the Century became old news
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Geoffrey Aronson
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi
The Death of Al Baghdadi won’t end the violence but it will change the Jihadi landscape of the Middle East
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Faisal Al Yafai
Camp Bucca was a significant incubator for the Islamic State group
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the rise of extremism in Iraq
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Kathy Kelly
Sign
In Syria, history is repeating itself
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Lebanese protesters gather in Beirut, October 21
Iranian regime watching Lebanon protests with wariness
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Gareth Smyth
There is widespread agreement in Washington circles that the only language Erdogan understands is coercive diplomacy backed by a big stick
Don’t just impose sanctions on Turkey
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Omer Taspinar
Photo taken on June 28, 2019 shows US President Donald Trump (R) attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka.
Trump has forever changed map of the Middle East
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Claude Salhani
A demonstrator stands behind riot police during a protest at Riad al-Solh square in Beirut
'Switzerland of the Middle East' is on the brink of failure
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Claude Salhani
An Iraqi man waves his national flag during demonstrations in central Baghdad against their government
What will the protests of 25th October in Iraq look like?
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Diyari Salih
The Sochi accord deepened ties between Russia and Turkey
Syria 'enters new phase' with Russian-Turkish accord on north-east
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Thomas Seibert
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Egypt and Ethiopia are bound together by geography; an outside mediator won’t change that
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Faisal Al Yafai
Anti-government protest in Beirut
Lebanon doesn’t need Hariri’s ‘reforms’; it needs to change the way it governs
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Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Guards accompanying women at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp for the displaced where families of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters are held, in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria
Handing ISIS fighters over to Turkey could terribly backfire
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Stephen Starr
Shams 1, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) plant, in al-Gharibiyah district on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi
With oil prices high, it is the perfect moment for oil producing countries to recommit to sustainable energy
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Jonathan Gornall
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan won but only in the short term
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Yavuz Baydar
A Palestinian man fills a container with water from a tank in the Bedouin village of Al-Maleh in Jordan valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Israel prepares to turn Bedouin citizens into refugees in their own country
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Jonathan Cook
Other consequences of the Turkish incursion into Syria are perhaps more grave and urgent
As they rock Syrian boat, Erdogan and Trump ignore consequences
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Yavuz Baydar
US President Donald Trump
Trump's 'great and unmatched wisdom' is neither
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Claude Salhani
Refugees and migrants wait to be transferred to a camp in northern Greece, after their arrival from the island of Lesbos to the port of Piraeus near Athens
Europe does battle again with the demons of migration
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Iranian President Hassan Rohani chairing a cabinet meeting in Tehran
The difference between Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Khairallah Khairallah
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Why Israel is struggling to find a way out of its political deadlock
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Jonathan Cook
Iraqi Kurdistan
The Iraqi Kurdish parties and the PKK
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Diyari Salih
Zarif holds out offer of a nuclear free Iran at UNGA, but it will have to come with a committed cease fire deal as well, following strikes on Saudi oil plants.
Trump’s UNGA was a success. Iran now must look for a way out of escalation
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Martin Jay