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The timing of Hamas’ attack obviously was not accidental

Hamas’ brutal attack could have been avoided

A view shows destroyed buildings in the aftermath of the the deadly storm that hit Derna, in Libya

When climate change and a failing state collide

Oussama Romdhani

This is a reasonable and widely accepted approach that embodies Saudi Arabia’s new orientations

Saudi Arabia and the BRICS bloc

"If Somalia becomes a theater for power plays between the West and BRICS, we may well be witnessing the early stages of a new geopolitical cold war"

BRICS and Ethiopia: A new frontier in geopolitical tug-of-war

Ismail D. Osman

The socio-political turmoil in Israel is tearing the country apart

A perilous implosion awaits Israel unless true democracy prevails

The fifth cycle introduces remote voting, enabling voters to cast their ballots from anywhere

Continuity and development in the Emirati Shura approach

Tunisian President Kais Saied receives the UAE Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan al-Nahyan at the Carthage Palace in Tunis, August 4

A tale of two Spartas

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Burnt vehicles after Israeli settlers attacked near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last month

The occupation and Jewish values

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh

Blinken’s visit against the backdrop of Saudi-American ties

No magic trick or balancing act by Netanyahu can possibly control the outcomes

Netanyahu promoting armed intifada in West Bank

'It is now up to Riyadh to seize the opportunity and assert its position as a regional leader and take up the mantle of peace maker'

Saudi Arabia is best positioned to be the peace maker

Erdogan could have experienced a significant drop in his support base from past elections

Telling insights into the Turkish elections

The voting system has now reverted to a proportional representation model

New election system, same corrupt government for Iraq

Victoria Stewart-Jolley

"Every Israeli should remember that the occupation stains the country’s independence day"

An occupying power cannot be a beacon of democracy

Netanyahu’s dream of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia will not be realized

Netanyahu’s dismal failure to guard Israel-Arab relations

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Syria’s comeback to the Arab fold

Limiting Saudi contracts to international companies that have a regional center in the Kingdom is a positive decision

Positive Saudi track 2023

Abdullah Al Alami

Before European Hegemony by Abu-Lughod revisited

Abdus Sattar Ghazali

The US needs an alibi to justify remaining in Syria to fight “terrorism”

US occupiers lash out as Syria War draws to an end

M.K. Bhadrakumar

Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu’s reality check is overdue

Bush relied on mythical weapons of mass destruction and a nonexistent link between Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks to justify his war on Iraq

How team Bush escaped justice over Iraq

Trump and Netanyahu

Trump and Netanyahu behind prison bars — a satire

This is a diplomatic outcome the US never seriously pursued

Seismic Iran-Saudi rapprochement isolates US

A US Marine Corp watches as a statue of Iraq's President Saddam Hussein falls in central Baghdad's Firdaus Square in April 2003

The American war from hell, 20 years later

The list of the Iranian government’s atrocities against its own people is hard to numerate

Iran’s human rights violations are indescribable

Western countries have invested billions of dollars into helping Ukraine militarily

Western calculations in the Ukraine war

The newly-formed Netanyahu government is betraying every single principle of the country’s founders’ vision

On the march to destroy Israel as we know It

The continued divisions between Fatah and Hamas and the effects of Israeli occupation heavily impede the human service work of Palestinian civil society

Community-driven decentralization and reconciliation in Palestine

Yossef Ben-Meir

Israel strictly maintains its blockade and control of people and goods over the two crossings to and from Gaza

The absurdity of the Israel-Hamas relationship

Both governments were apparently intent on ignoring the questionable provenance of the skulls

Algeria and France: adding insult to injury

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