Opinion

Turkey’s election turning into a fight on other fronts
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Yavuz Baydar
Trump’s Middle East policy grows clearer but consequences remain unpredictable
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Mark Habeeb
Iran’s Mujahideen-e Khalq has friends at the White House
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Bernd Debusmann
An Anti-Erdogan Storm is brewing in Washington
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Yavuz Baydar
Can the heroic act of the Paris ‘Spider-Man’ change the perception of migrants?
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Amiri’s list is likely to be joined by its political ally
Iraqi post-election horse-trading in full swing
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Mamoon Alabbasi
King Abdullah of Jordan: Balancing on an ever-tighter tightrope
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James M. Dorsey
The flags of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries
A year on, no end in sight for Qatar boycott
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Mohammed Alkhereiji
Is regime change Trump’s goal in Iran?
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Gregory Aftandilian
A general view of the Qatari side of the Abu Samrah border crossing with Saudi Arabia.
Doha’s attitude keeps it isolated from neighbours
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Iman Zayat
Palestinian woman Hamas supporter holds up a rifle.
Hamas is impervious to change in Gaza
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Khairallah Khairallah
Israelis cheer on competitors during a second stage of Giro d'Italia, Tour of Italy cycling race.
Israel finds many benefits in closer ties to Europe
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Maya al-Orzza
Can Trump’s Iran Policy Lead to Regime Change in Tehran?
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Ali Alfoneh
Cracks Start to Show in Syria’s Unlikely Alliances
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Simon Speakman Cordall
Former staff general in the Iraqi Army Ayad Futayyih al-Rawi
Iraqis will regret some of their own doings but it’ll be too late
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Farouk Yousef
Dozens of civilians have been killed in the clashes
Chaos in southern Libya could spin out of control
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Michel Cousins
Targeting the misery of Syria’s refugees
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Makram Rabah
Al-Sadr’s loyalists were involved in sectarian bloodshed in Iraq that ravaged the country
Al-Sadr’s strong electoral showing puts US in quandary
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Gregory Aftandilian
Italy’s politics have Euro-Mediterranean ramifications
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Francis Ghiles
The Thessaloniki factor in the Turkish election
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Yavuz Baydar
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz and Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Jeddah, last July
Support and intervention in Iraq are not the same
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Mohammed Alkhereiji
Colonel Turki al-Malki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, displays wreckage from Iranian-Houthi suicide drones in Khobar city, last April
Houthi-IRGC ties on Washington’s radar again
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Iman Zayat
Saudi Arabia, wary of Iran's influence, is nervous about a US troop pullout from Syria.
Trump cannot outsource Syria’s reconstruction
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Gregory Aftandilian
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is seen on a video screen as he addresses his supporters in Beirut, Lebanon.
With Hezbollah, Washington preaching to deaf ears
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Claude Salhani
Gaza violence dims peace prospects
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Thomas Seibert
With media cheerleading him fully, Erdogan hopes to win
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Yavuz Baydar
Palestinians said they would continue their mass protests
Palestinians face worsening crises with little hope of redress
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Mamoon Alabbasi
Going against history.
Lebanon cannot live outside its Arab environment
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Ali al-Amin
A Palestinian waits for Israeli soldiers to open the barrier gate of the to enter his farm in the village of Habla near Qalqilya
Unchecked brutality shows that Palestinians are alone
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Iman Zayat
Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit (L), Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (C) and Hossam Zaki, the League’s deputy secretary-general, attend Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, on May 17
GCC says ‘serious consequences’ from US embassy move
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Mohammed Alkhereiji