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Britain’s Hidden Hand in the Kurdish Crisis

Hadi Elis The Puppeteer of the Middle East: Britain’s Legacy of Sabotage Against the Kurds Standfirst: From WWI chemica…
US to respond to Iranian attacks on forces in Middle East: Trump

US President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States will retaliate against Iran following missile and drone att…
The West Bank’s Ultra-Apartheid (and the Collusive International Silence)

By Dan Steinbock Gaza showed the genocidal face of Israel’s expulsive strategy. In the West Bank, the same objective is …
Putin, Xi gather with world leaders for SCO summit in Kyrgyzstan

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and more than a dozen other world leaders are gathering …
Araghchi accuses Netanyahu of deceiving US over war on Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of practicing deception an…
China’s Rise Under Trump: Tactical Windfall or Lasting Strategic Gain?

There may be few people who have done more to improve China’s image around the world than Donald Trump. What Beijing cou…
Between the Old and the New: Have the Arabs Stopped Reading History?

Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh The most disturbing thing revealed by the Fourth Gulf War and its aftermath is not that it answe…
Canada Chooses to Fight Back: Ottawa Enters a Trade War With Washington

For more than three decades, Canada and the United States built one of the world’s most deeply integrated economic…
Lebanon’s Three Scenarios at Ali al-Taher Hill

Saad Ilyas Lebanon’s southern frontier is no longer merely hovering on the edge of escalation. It has entered a new phas…
Six Months Into Trump’s Iran War, America Is Trapped in Another Endless Conflict

Six months into America’s war with Iran, the conflict is beginning to resemble another version of the “forever wars” tha…
Qatar Expands Its Partnership with NATO

Qatar is pursuing two parallel tracks in an increasingly turbulent regional environment: diplomacy on the one hand and s…
SCO at 25—As an Election Observer

Farhat Asif Today 23 August 2026, citizens across Kazakhstan are electing the first Kurultai under the country’s new Co…

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