Opinion

US Defense Secretary James Mattis listens (L) as US President Donald Trump speaks at the White House in Washington, on October 23
Is US Defence Secretary Mattis on his way out?
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Gregory Aftandilian
Iranian judiciary chief Sadegh Larijani (L) and Iranian President Hassan Rohani during a meeting in Tehran
Iran’s wrong bet on US-Saudi rupture
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Iman Zayat
Police officers patrol the area around Herald Square in New York
Trump’s antiterrorism strategy describes ‘a nation at war’
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Mark Habeeb
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint news conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Russian soft power places Moscow at the centre of Syria’s chaos
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Simon Speakman Cordall
Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Avarice with No Limits
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Suha Aljundi
Head of Libyan Presidency Council Fayez al-Sarraj (R) speaks during a news conference with UN Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame in Tripoli
Controversial appointments sow further division in Libya
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Michel Cousins
Does Francophonie matter for the Arab world?
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Claude Salhani
US ramps up rhetoric on Iran but not military posture
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Gregory Aftandilian
China’s Middle East policy runs into problems
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Francis Ghiles
Netanyahu Is Destroying Both Israel And The Palestinians
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Alon Ben-Meir
Palestnian man, who is hoping to cross into Egypt, shouts as he holds his passport and other family members’ passports at the Rafah border crossing
Desperate young Gazans at dead end
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Adly Sadeq
Iranian missile strikes spark wariness
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Simon Speakman Cordall
Hating Muslims in the age of Trump
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Juan Cole
The Iraqi honour guard stands at attention during the presidential handover ceremony at the presidential palace in Baghdad, on October 3
In Iraq, political changes mean more of the same
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Mamoon Alabbasi
The legitimacy of UAE War in Yemen
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Suha Aljundi
Why there aren’t many Arab Nobel science laureates
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Khadija Hamouchi
Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations Riyad Mansour attends a UN Security Council meeting in New York, on July 24
Trump’s unfounded optimism on Israeli-Palestinian peace
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Mark Habeeb
Members of Russian and Syrian forces stand guard near posters of Syrian President Bashar Assad (L) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Abu Duhur crossing on the eastern edge of Idlib, last August.
Russia is still on the wrong path in Syria
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Khairallah Khairallah
At the UN General Assembly, Trump promised his peace plan would be unveiled in the next two to three months
Everyone washes their hands as Gaza’s economy goes into freefall
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Jonathan Cook
US works to quash European attempts to bypass Iran sanctions
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Thomas Frank
Turkish soldiers atop an armoured personnel carrier secure the streets of the north-western city of Afrin, last March
Turkey eyes new Syria incursion after Idlib deal
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Thomas Seibert
Trump closing PLO office in Washington invites Palestinian extremism
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Claude Salhani
The end of Syria’s civil war and the beginning of the conflict over the spoils
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Alon Ben-Meir
Can Political Consensus Rescue Iraq?
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Diyari Salih
The Deal Or The Debacle Of The Century?
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Alon Ben-Meir
Palestine is test of Trump’s plan to tear up international order
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Jonathan Cook
A demonstrator scuffles with Israeli policemen in the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar
Palestinians up the diplomatic ante against Israel, US
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Mamoon Alabbasi
Rise of Sweden Democrats highlights normalisation of anti-migration sentiment
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Mahmud el-Shafey
A man walks past a campaign poster of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in Najaf
Abadi edged out of prime minister’s race but real change in Iraq remains remote
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Mamoon Alabbasi
Why Does Al-Abadi Prefer to Face Turkey Now?
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Diyari Salih