Opinion

Illegal Israeli settlements
Israeli history offers lessons for Palestinian leaders
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
US President Donald Trump
Iran crisis may make Trump look like Lord of War. But can he take the blowback?
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Martin Jay
Lebanese protesters carry national flags as they take part in anti-government demonstrations in central Beirut
There is light at the end of the tunnel for Lebanon
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Khairallah Khairallah
Donald J. Trump is indeed the definition of a deluge and we, the American people, are present-day Venice; we are, that is, six feet under water, even if we don’t quite know it.
Après moi, le déluge...
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Tom Engelhardt
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Is Netanyahu ready to inflame war to escape his legal troubles?
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Jonathan Cook
A Syrian government soldier holds up a portrait of President Bashar al-Assad and a Syrian national flag while another stands by a Kurdish YPG flag
In Syria, PKK mimics Assad’s propaganda
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Kyle Orton
US President Donald Trump
Confusion marks US role in north-eastern Syria
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Gregory Aftandilian
US President Donald Trump meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his accompanying delegation
Back against the wall, Erdogan battles to win time
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Yavuz Baydar
Emirati Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash speaks during a press conference in Dubai
Seeking a new approach to Gulf security
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Gareth Smyth
Oval meeting
Turkey’s Erdogan scores a pyrrhic victory in Washington
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Omer Taspinar
Iran's uranium enrichment
Are sanctions really about hurting Iran or about propping up the US arms industry?
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Jonathan Gornall
In Bolivia, the unrest is about President Evo Morales’s fourth-term election victory, which some describe as a fraud
Arab spring, summer, autumn, winter… worldwide
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
US President Donald Trump meets with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC
Trump and Erdogan: An odd couple glued together by calculations
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Yavuz Baydar
Israeli soldiers
Israel is silencing last voices against abuse of Palestinians
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Jonathan Cook
Workers remove scaffolding at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, Qatar
World Cup 2022: Who wants to see the poor die for the rich?
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Suha Aljundi
Demonstrators take to the streets in the capital Algiers to protest against the government
Solutions to the Maghreb’s problems must be homegrown
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Francis Ghiles
Anti-government protesters try to cross the al- Shuhada (Martyrs) bridge in central Baghdad
The battle for Iraq is a battle for the whole region
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Khairallah Khairallah
Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Russian military vehicle on November 8, 2019, during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol
Europe's ambiguous stance on Turkey's Syria incursion
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Baha al-Awam
Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri
Hariri positioning himself for a come back to remove ‘new’ Hezbollah president?
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Martin Jay
Palestinians attend Friday prayer during a protest against Jewish settlements near Yata, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
How Trump’s Deal of the Century became old news
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Geoffrey Aronson
Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi
The Death of Al Baghdadi won’t end the violence but it will change the Jihadi landscape of the Middle East
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Faisal Al Yafai
Camp Bucca was a significant incubator for the Islamic State group
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the rise of extremism in Iraq
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Kathy Kelly
Sign
In Syria, history is repeating itself
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Lebanese protesters gather in Beirut, October 21
Iranian regime watching Lebanon protests with wariness
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Gareth Smyth
There is widespread agreement in Washington circles that the only language Erdogan understands is coercive diplomacy backed by a big stick
Don’t just impose sanctions on Turkey
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Omer Taspinar
Photo taken on June 28, 2019 shows US President Donald Trump (R) attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka.
Trump has forever changed map of the Middle East
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Claude Salhani
A demonstrator stands behind riot police during a protest at Riad al-Solh square in Beirut
'Switzerland of the Middle East' is on the brink of failure
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Claude Salhani
An Iraqi man waves his national flag during demonstrations in central Baghdad against their government
What will the protests of 25th October in Iraq look like?
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Diyari Salih
The Sochi accord deepened ties between Russia and Turkey
Syria 'enters new phase' with Russian-Turkish accord on north-east
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Thomas Seibert
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Egypt and Ethiopia are bound together by geography; an outside mediator won’t change that
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Faisal Al Yafai