Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a closed security meeting on Syria and Lebanon following remarks by US President Donald Trump suggesting that Syrian forces could enter Lebanon to confront Hezbollah. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel strongly opposes any Syrian military deployment on Lebanese territory but …
Read More »Postwar Lebanon: Rebuilding Homes and Economy
Zainab Bazzi “Countries do not recover from wars when the shelling stops, but when society becomes convinced that its future will be better than its past. This is Lebanon’s major economic task the day after a ceasefire.” With this statement, Jamal Ibrahim Haidar, head of the Economics Department …
Read More »Iran parliament speaker says ending war in Lebanon as important as ending war with Tehran
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said Wednesday that ending the war in Lebanon is as important to Tehran as ending the war in Iran, according to ISNA news agency. Speaking at the 20th Session of the Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) …
Read More »Trump says US inspectors to join IAEA in Iran uranium inspections
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that American inspectors will take part in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) missions when it eventually enters Iran for uranium inspections. Trump told Fox News that there was currently “no rush” to deploy the teams. He said Tuesday that inspection teams …
Read More »Why Britain Is Getting Its Seventh Prime Minister in Just 10 Years
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday, making him the seventh leader of the country in a decade. This ongoing political turmoil can be traced back to the Brexit referendum that occurred ten years ago. Since that event, the UK has been trying to establish …
Read More »Why Washington Would Buy Diego Garcia: America’s Strategic Calculus
Arthur Michelino In June 2026, reports surfaced that Washington had begun considering a plan to purchase the Chagos Islandsoutright from Mauritius, bypassing London and dealing directly with Port Louis to secure permanent control of Diego Garcia. The plan arrived as an alternative to the British cession of the …
Read More »The Lebanon War and the New Push for Regional Peace
The reported progress toward ending the Lebanon war is a rare diplomatic opening in a region exhausted by escalation. That is why mediation by Pakistan and Qatar deserves recognition. Neither country can impose peace, but together they have created political space where military logic had begun to dominate. …
Read More »The Middle East Between: De-escalation and Regional Reconfiguration
Dr. Cherkaoui Roudani The history of international relations shows that the most enduring crises do not end when an agreement is signed, but when a new balance of power becomes acceptable to the principal actors involved. The memorandum concluded between the United States and Iran does not yet …
Read More »Why the United States Needs India’s Democratic AI Model
Dimitra Staikou When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the G7 summit, the most consequential conversation was not about trade, tariffs, or diplomacy. It was about who will shape the future of artificial intelligence—and whether that future will be defined solely by the United States and China. India …
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