Opinion

Overwhelmingly ceremonial. Flags of the Arab League members on display ahead of the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Beirut, January 17.
Is it still possible to save the Arab League?
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Iman Zayat
A Muslim woman holds posters as she protests against ‘hate and islamophobia’ in Brussels, last September 9
Misinterpreting Islam in the West
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Francis Ghiles
A shift in direction. A Syrian soldier stands at a checkpoint as a Russian military police vehicle passes by near the village of Almajdiyeh, last August.
The new game Russia, China play
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Claude Salhani
Popular Mobilization Forces parade in Basra
The Iranian-American Upcoming Confrontation in Iraq
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Diyari Salih
In the Jan 20 phone call, Erdogan told Trump that Turkey was “ready to take over the security” in Manbij “without losing time.”
Turkey claims Syria role as militants target US forces in second attack in days
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Thomas Seibert
Engine of growth. Saudi and foreign investors stand in front of the logo of Aramco in Riyadh
Saudi Aramco IPO still on the table
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Jareer Elass
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) meets with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, last September.
What safe zone? Turkey’s margin to manoeuvre in Syria shrinks
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Yavuz Baydar
Unambiguous message. Former Iranian Labour Minister Ali Rabiee.
1979 again? Spectre of unrest hangs over Iran
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Ali Alfoneh
Limited margin for manoeuvre. Iraq’s Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi (C) in Baghdad.
Iraq’s ministerial roulette grinds on as do fears of Iranian influence
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Nazli Tarzi
Empty rhetoric. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media at the parliament in Ankara, January 8.
Turkey-PKK grand bargain is a pipe dream
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Yavuz Baydar
Slighted. US national security adviser John Bolton (L) speaks to Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin (R) following their meeting in Ankara, January 8
Is Trump’s America a force for good in the Middle East?
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Ali Alfoneh
A Syrian flag flies in a rubble strewn street at the entrance of the Hajar al-Aswad neighbourhood on the southern outskirts of Damascus
What will Syria look like in 2019?
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Stephen Starr
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a meeting with navy commanders and officers in Tehran, November 28. (Office of Iran’s Supreme Leader)
Empty rhetoric will not save Iran
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Ibrahim al-Zoubeidi
PMF is looking for passing a parliamentary proposal calling for the withdrawal of the American troops from Iraq
Troubled relations between the US and Iraq's PMF
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Diyari Salih
White House communications director Bill Shine (L), White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (C), and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner in the Oval Office of the White House, December 11
The future of Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
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Mark Habeeb
Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani meets with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Doha, last November
Qatari ties to Iran, Turkey undermine regional security
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Iman Zayat
Police officers detain a Turkish man during protests in Istanbul, last May
Turkey’s free society is disappearing into a sarcophagus
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Yavuz Baydar
Spain’s far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal (C-R) speaks during a news conference in Seville, December 3
Andalusia earthquake hits Spanish politics
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Francis Ghiles
Customers looks at items for sale at the pop-up shop in London
Love refugees? Is Britain redefining a fraught debate?
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
A Palestinian woman walks past a portrait of late leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah
The two faces of the Palestinian dilemma
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Claude Salhani
Palestinians burn Donald Trump's picture during a protest against a US decision to cut funding to UNRWA
Deal of the Century in the International Law
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Suha Aljundi
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi meets with former Iraqi Kurdish region President Masoud Barzani in Baghdad, Iraq November 22, 2018
The Plight of Completion Adel Abdul Mahdi's Government
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Diyari Salih
Czech President Milos Zeman listens to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during a session at the Knesset
Israel’s new war of attrition on Jerusalem’s Palestinians
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Jonathan Cook
A protester participates in an anti-Islamophobia demonstration in London
The importance of defining Islamophobia in the UK
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Aaqil Ahmed
A general view showing the MI6 building in London
The tortured ‘truth’ of the Iraq war keeps surfacing
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Tallha Abdulrazaq
A protester participates in an anti-Islamophobia demonstration in London.
The importance of defining Islamophobia in the UK
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Aaqil Ahmed
A Houthi fighter holds a weapon as he looks at smoke rising from a building in Sana’a
Yemen’s vicious circle must be broken
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Khairallah Khairallah
A 2017 file picture shows Miriam and Sheldon Adelson attending a ceremony at Ariel University in the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank.
Christian Zionists are Israel’s political foot soldiers in US
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Mark Habeeb
Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Barzani's Forthcoming Visit To Baghdad
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Diyari Salih
Elections now loom large after Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s hawkish defence minister, resigned on Wednesday
Netanyahu’s ceasefire is meant to keep Gaza imprisoned
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Jonathan Cook