Op-ed

By Roya Bagher A proposal to forgive student debt in exchange for enlistment in a potential US ground force against Iran raises a fundamental question about the relationship between military power and public willingness to fight. If such a proposal gains traction, it would suggest that the challenge …

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaidi’s tour from Riyadh to Kuwait, Beirut, and Damascus is more than a series of routine diplomatic visits. It reflects Baghdad’s attempt to reposition itself in a region where security concerns increasingly overlap with economic interests, traditional alliances are being reshaped, and regional …

With just five days remaining before Israel’s October 27 election, speculation is mounting over whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could launch another military confrontation with Iran. Amid stalled negotiations, heightened military activity and competing political pressures in Washington and Jerusalem, the region faces a familiar but dangerous question: …

By Saleem Al-Batayneh Former Jordanian Member of Parliament It is difficult for any Arab who possesses the capacity for independent thought and critical analysis to look at the intellectual darkness enveloping much of the Arab world without feeling profound sadness and frustration. The depth of this darkness varies …

The Financial Times has published an article by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in which he warned of the dangers of false assumptions about Iran. He stressed that progress would only be possible if the United States acknowledged that there is no military solution to the current situation. …

Qatar, Türkiye, Pakistan, and Indonesia signed a “multilateral” military memorandum ofunderstandingyesterday, Wednesday, named “Badr,” according to a statement by the QatarNews Agency. The statementsaid that the four countries “complement one another” andthat the memorandum would enable themto “leverage each country’s capabilities in the fieldof defense manufacturing.” It also …

Hadi Elis The United States entered its war with Iran possessing something few militaries in history have had at comparable scale: extraordinary technological superiority, an enormous intelligence architecture and increasingly sophisticated artificial-intelligence systems capable of processing information at speeds no human organization could match. Artificial intelligence has become …

Tamara Berro When Chinese President Xi Jinping met Donald Trump in May, Taiwan was at the centre of the most difficult question in the relationship between the world’s two largest powers. Xi described the island as the most important and sensitive issue in Sino-American relations. He also warned …

Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh George Orwell’s 1984 is often read as a warning about dictatorship. It is also a study of something subtler: how institutions and ordinary people can gradually adapt themselves to a political system they once regarded as unacceptable. The machinery of Orwell’s Oceania does not depend …