Opinion

Anti-government protest in Beirut
Lebanon doesn’t need Hariri’s ‘reforms’; it needs to change the way it governs
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Hussain Abdul-Hussain
Guards accompanying women at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp for the displaced where families of Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters are held, in the al-Hasakeh governorate in northeastern Syria
Handing ISIS fighters over to Turkey could terribly backfire
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Stephen Starr
Shams 1, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) plant, in al-Gharibiyah district on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi
With oil prices high, it is the perfect moment for oil producing countries to recommit to sustainable energy
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Jonathan Gornall
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan won but only in the short term
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Yavuz Baydar
A Palestinian man fills a container with water from a tank in the Bedouin village of Al-Maleh in Jordan valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
Israel prepares to turn Bedouin citizens into refugees in their own country
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Jonathan Cook
Other consequences of the Turkish incursion into Syria are perhaps more grave and urgent
As they rock Syrian boat, Erdogan and Trump ignore consequences
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Yavuz Baydar
US President Donald Trump
Trump's 'great and unmatched wisdom' is neither
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Claude Salhani
Refugees and migrants wait to be transferred to a camp in northern Greece, after their arrival from the island of Lesbos to the port of Piraeus near Athens
Europe does battle again with the demons of migration
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Iranian President Hassan Rohani chairing a cabinet meeting in Tehran
The difference between Saudi Arabia and Iran
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Khairallah Khairallah
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Why Israel is struggling to find a way out of its political deadlock
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Jonathan Cook
Iraqi Kurdistan
The Iraqi Kurdish parties and the PKK
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Diyari Salih
Zarif holds out offer of a nuclear free Iran at UNGA, but it will have to come with a committed cease fire deal as well, following strikes on Saudi oil plants.
Trump’s UNGA was a success. Iran now must look for a way out of escalation
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Martin Jay
Macron’s proposed deal may be a bridge too far for both the United States and Iran
Macron’s proposals a bridge too far for US, Iran
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Gregory Aftandilian
United Arab Emirates' astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri raises his fist from a bus before boarding a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station
Mansoori's space quest inspires all young Arabs
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Claude Salhani
Huthi supporters perform the traditional Baraa dance during a ceremony held to collect supplies for Huthi fighters in Sanaa
Five years of Huthi troublemaking in Sanaa
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Khairallah Khairallah
Chinese visitors arrive to the opening of the Syria rebuilding exhibition at the fair grounds in Damascus, Syria
Rebuilding Syria, one luxury hotel at a time
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
The latest debacle to dog Hariri is his craven handling of TV workers' pay
New buyer for Hariri’s own TV channel, mired in scandal?
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Martin Jay
TUrkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Is Erdogan’s ruling party imploding?
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Yavuz Baydar
US President Donald Trump (L) and his new Middle East peace envoy Avi Berkowitz
Israeli PM’s unilateralism is informed by Trump’s style
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri during the meeting to discuss a draft policy statement at the governmental palace in Beirut
Hariri tells the world: Hezbollah is your problem
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Mohamad Kawas
An Israeli election banner depicts US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hanging on the facade of a building in occupied Jerusalem
Palestinian peace plan postponed indefinitely
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Claude Salhani
A demonstrator bangs a pot during a protest demanding social and economic reforms as well as the departure of the country’s ruling elite in Algiers
Algerian, Sudanese Armies advance opposite but equally uncertain paths
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Francis Ghiles
US President Donald Trump
For now, Trump-Iran talks are about talking
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Rashmee Roshan Lall
A Lebanese protestor carries a placard bearing a cartoon portrait of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his visit to Beirut last March
The US decided that Lebanon’s affairs are its business
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Mohamad Kawas
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan’s triple impasse: The US, Russia and the Kurds
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Yavuz Baydar
A man glances at a rocket that flew away from an Iraqi militia group's weapons depot after it caught fire, in Baghdad, Iraq
The Explosion of Iraq's Weapons Depots
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Diyari Salih
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan’s triple impasse: The US, Russia and the Kurds
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Yavuz Baydar
French President Emmanuel Macron (R) meets with Algeria’s interim President Abdelkader Bensalah in Tunis
Russia and France wary of Algeria’s Hirak six months after onset
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Francis Ghiles
Yemeni demonstrators wave flags of former South Yemen as they march in Yemen’s second city of Aden
The STC has not just parachuted into Yemen
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Haitham El-Zobaidi
US soldiers climb into a vehicle of the US-led coalition as they prepare to leave the city of Ras al-Ain in Syria's Hasakeh province
Death of US Marine in Iraq brings renewed attention to ISIS threat
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Gregory Aftandilian