Opinion

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
How will Jeremy Hunt deal with the Middle East?
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Mahmud el-Shafey
Fear of migrants unites right-wing populists in US, Europe
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Mark Habeeb
Can a poem be as deadly as a tank?
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Arm-wrestling or not, Turkey’s spat with the West leaves a mark
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Stephen Starr
Iran is not North Korea, it is borrowing a page from Saddam’s book
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Ibrahim al-Zoubeidi
vA banner reading “See you in Qatar,” in reference to the Qatar 2022 World Cup, in Moscow, on July 14
A failed winter cup will do no good to Qatar’s reputation
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Mahmud el-Shafey
American Islamophobia’s fake facts
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Arnold R. Isaacs
Much of social media’s pungent prominence in foreign diplomacy has been led by Trump.
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
An ALL-CAPS war on diplomacy
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Syrian flags hang from buildings as workers rebuild destroyed stores in Harasta on the outskirt of Damascus, on July 15
Talk of rebuilding Syria is delusional
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Stephen Starr
An activist holds a computer keyboard and makeshift handcuffs in Beirut? on July 24
Lebanon’s shrinking freedom of expression
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Mona Alami
‘Midnight Express’: It’s the 1970s once more in Erdogan’s Turkey
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Yavuz Baydar
The futuristic danger of Kirkuk problem
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Diyari Salih
Turkish opposition has hard time adjusting to Erdogan’s authoritarian politics
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Yavuz Baydar