Opinion

Iraq's 60 years of turmoil and destruction
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Khairallah Khairallah
Given Damascus’ limited manpower, Iran’s presence within Syria allows Russia to continue towards its principal war aim: preserving the regime.
Against conflicted alliances, Russia maintains its diplomatic balancing act
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Simon Speakman Cordall
A file picture shows Egyptian Army officers walking in front of a huge screen during the opening ceremony of a waterway at the Suez Canal in Ismailia
In Sisi’s Egypt, army plays major role across society
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Ibrahim Ouf
Competition for dominating Mosul city is still ongoing among the Iraqi parties
Iraq protests rattle politicians but fail to bring any big change
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Mamoon Alabbasi
Protests and the Iraqi future
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Diyari Salih
Turkey seen as reintroducing state of emergency through ‘back door’
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Thomas Seibert
Israel’s new law is an elegy for Palestinian rights
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Will Iran be hit hard by new US sanctions? It remains to be seen
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Gareth Smyth
US President Donald Trump arrives at the airport in Helsinki on the eve of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on July 15
Do all roads now lead to Moscow?
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Mark Habeeb
AU summit reflects fractured state of Africa
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Francis Ghiles
Russia runs the show in Syria.
Syria, Iran, unicorns and rainbows: The Trump-Putin tryst
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
The ambivalent US attitude toward Iran
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Suha Aljundi
By razing Khan al-Ahmar, Israel will bulldoze illusions of peace process
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Jonathan Cook
The man who knows too much. Lebanese journalist Fidaa Itani
Fidaa Itani and Lebanon’s battle for free speech
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Makram Rabah
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) talks to US President Donald Trump during their meeting at the G20 summit in Hamburg, last July
What the Middle East can expect from the Trump-Putin summit
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John C.K. Daly
India looks for alternatives to Iranian oil imports
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Jareer Elass
Rohani embarks on charm campaign in Europe
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Claude Salhani
Al-Qaeda 2.0 emerges from power struggles"
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Ed Blanche
After Erdogan’s election win, Turkey will continue to cause concerns in the US
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Thomas Frank
Women leave the Saudi Driving School inside Princess Nora University in Riyadh
Saudi women’s road ahead
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Abdallah al-Alamy
Iraqi men wave their national flags on the streets of Baghdad
Iran had no future in Iraq and it cannot change that
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Khairallah Khairallah
Falling rial has Iranians slamming regional adventurism
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Ali Alfoneh
For the EU, Turkey is now only a transactional partner. Period
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Yavuz Baydar
How the Kurdish-rooted HDP party survived Erdogan’s onslaught
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Stephen Starr
Tehran’s Grand Bazaar unrest a harbinger of change to come
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Claude Salhani
Trump’s ‘disruptive’ approach rattles traditional allies
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Francis Ghiles
Britain's Prince William visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, June 28, 2018.
British choreography should have risen beyond the symbolic
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
A Hezbollah fighter holds an Iran-made anti-aircraft missile launcher on the border with Israel in Naqoura
Hezbollah places all of Lebanon at risk
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Mona Alami
Global migration, from American dream to nightmare
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Trump’s foreign policy has little use for human rights advocacy
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Mark Habeeb