Op-ed

Hadi Elis  The Puppeteer of the Middle East: Britain’s Legacy of Sabotage Against the Kurds Standfirst: From WWI chemical weapons to the recent betrayal of Rojava, Britain has consistently worked to deny Kurdish self-determination, using Turkey as its willing proxy. Since World War I, Britain has systematically manipulated …

US President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will retaliate against Iran following missile and drone attacks on American forces in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). “We’re going to hit them hard. There will be a response,” Trump told Fox News. He noted that …

By Dan Steinbock Gaza showed the genocidal face of Israel’s expulsive strategy. In the West Bank, the same objective is realized with incremental escalation. The ultimate goal is the same – the final expulsion of the Palestinians. Today, the West Bank is a nightmare of vicious settlement expansion, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and more than a dozen other world leaders are gathering in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for a two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional bloc increasingly positioned as a counterweight to Western influence. The group is marking its …

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of practicing deception and duplicity, describing him as a “serpent.” Araghchi stated that Netanyahu openly boasts in Hebrew about having deceived the US administration and pushed it into waging a war on Iran on behalf of …

There may be few people who have done more to improve China’s image around the world than Donald Trump. What Beijing could not accomplish through decades of diplomacy, trade and public diplomacy, Trump’s confrontational approach toward America’s allies and partners has, in many respects, helped accelerate. A recent …

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh The most disturbing thing revealed by the Fourth Gulf War and its aftermath is not that it answered old questions. It is that it opened a much larger set of new ones. Perhaps the most unsettling is also the simplest: Is the Arab world approaching …

For more than three decades, Canada and the United States built one of the world’s most deeply integrated economic relationships on an assumption that once seemed almost axiomatic: geography, shared infrastructure and an extraordinarily dense network of trade would ultimately prove stronger than political disagreements. That assumption is …

Saad Ilyas Lebanon’s southern frontier is no longer merely hovering on the edge of escalation. It has entered a new phase of strategic brinkmanship between Israel and Hezbollah, in which every drone, artillery strike and political statement risks becoming part of a much larger contest over who ultimately …