Opinion

A Palestinian woman holds the key of her family’s home as she sits at the Balatah refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, on September 2.
US-Israeli strategy to end Palestinian refugee status is illegal
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Maya al-Orzza
Like Sweden, Finland has its Muslim-bashing populists
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
UK Labour Party fails to draw line under anti-Semitism row
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Mahmud el-Shafey
Russian-Iranian-Turkish alliance fractured at Tehran summit
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Thomas Seibert
Palestinian refugee students stand outside a classroom at one of the UNRWA schools in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 3
Lebanon’s Palestinians, the hardest hit by US funding cuts to UNRWA
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Samar Kadi
Palestinian children carry the fake coffin of the “deal of Trump” during a demonstration in Kfar Qaddum near Nablus
Arab states too, like Trump, share blame for Palestinian plight
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for a news conference in Tehran, on September 7
The Gordian knot called Idlib challenges Erdogan
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Yavuz Baydar
Kuwait’s Oil Minister Bakheet al-Rashidi arrives for an OPEC meeting in Vienna
Kuwait acts to resolve energy conflicts with neighbours
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Jareer Elass
Yemeni government dismisses UN report, warring factions prepare for Geneva talks
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Saleh Baidhani
Some Israelis will be more equal than others
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Charles Enderlin
About five million Palestinians – many languishing for decades in refugee camps across the Middle East – rely on the agency for essential food, healthcare and education.
US cuts to UNRWA point to the dark future being readied for the Palestinians
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Jonathan Cook
Erdogan is to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rohani on September 7 in Iran.
Turkey attempts precarious balance as it jockeys for position in Syria
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Thomas Seibert
Intolerance in Europe is destroying trust in Mediterranean region
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Francis Ghiles
Iranian President Hassan Rohani (C), Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meet in Ankara, on April 4
Can Tabriz talks usher in a Turkey-Iran-Russia axis?
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John C.K. Daly
A Russian soldier guides a Syrian woman at the Abu Duhur crossing on the eastern edge of Idlib province, on August 20.
Russia should draw lessons from Soviet experience for its Syrian war
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Khairallah Khairallah
Targeting young people at home does not solve Tehran’s paranoia problem
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Claude Salhani
A 2003 file picture shows UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (L) and US Secretary of State Colin Powell talking prior to the start of a UN Security Council on the situation in Iraq
It is the Iraq invasion that will define Kofi Annan
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
The Israeli government has been using legislation to marginalize Palestinian citizens for decades
The Nation-State Law and the Weakness of the Joint List
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Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud
Turkey, US rushing towards an irreparable rupture
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Yavuz Baydar
Italy in urgent need of national deradicalisation strategy
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Mahmud el-Shafey
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Iranian leader Hassan Rohani
Russia, Iran and Syria: strange and strained alliances
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Claude Salhani
Competition for dominating Mosul city is still ongoing among the Iraqi parties
The Geopolitical Threats in Post-IS Mosul
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Diyari Salih
The War Piece to End All War Pieces
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Tom Engelhardt
The Palestinian Refugees: Right vs. Reality
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Alon Ben-Meir
“The Right Of Return”—To Where?
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Alon Ben-Meir
A Trump-Rohani summit could be a disaster but odds for talks are remote
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Mark Habeeb
Lebanon’s Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri (C-R) meets with Russia’s special presidential envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev (2nd L) at his house in downtown Beirut, on July 26
Misreading Lebanon’s future
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Mohamad Kawas
A Syrian man evacuated from the area of Fuaa and Kafraya in the Idlib province, waits outside a bus at al-Eis crossing south of Aleppo, on July 19
Europe’s second Syrian migrant crisis could be coming
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Stephen Starr
A video clip of a young Egyptian man standing his ground during an interview with a journalist went viral recently in Egypt. The arrested man sold clothes that had been smuggled through the customs facilities of Port Said on the Mediterranean coast. When
Egypt urgently needs reforms
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Hatem al-Jawhari
An Iraqi woman holds a sign and a candle during a demonstration in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square, on July 31
Iraq religious authority feels heat of anti-corruption protests
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Bahira al-Sheikhly