Opinion

Pro-Palestinian protest ahead of Real Madrid v Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball match - Madrid, Spain - January 8, 2026
The pendulum swings: The slow death of Europe’s pro-Israel consensus
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Ramzy Baroud
Hezbollah and Iranian flags flutter at a temporary graveyard by a damaged building in Tyre, south Lebanon
Lebanon… between the true patriot and the true traitor
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Khairallah Khairallah
The Kurdistan Democratic Party has the capacity to form the largest bloc
Re-elections… A tool of negotiation, not a tool of resolution
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Suzan Amedi
US headline and core inflation are heading back above 3% once more
Iran war stasis brings US inflation expectations back to the boil
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Mike Dolan
Trump and Netanyahu
“America’s only ally in the Middle East” and the big lie
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Lot Hildegard
The most alarming development in this new era is what analysts now call "Kinetic Insider Trading"
The digital casino of conflict: How 'death bets' are hijacking global diplomacy
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Altaf Moti
The UAE's surprise move comes at a time of unprecedented turmoil in energy markets
UAE exit strips OPEC of clout, risks bitter price war
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Ron Bousso
Tehran now appears to speak with multiple voices
Who is dragging Iran into war?
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Suzan Amedi
The unification of the budget represents significant progress, but it remains fragile
A unified Libyan budget under the pressure of the Gulf war
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Hatim Betioui
Pakistan's diplomacy on the rise
Pakistan emerges as key middle power amid shifting global security order
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Altaf Moti
Iran’s deep distrust of the United States—particularly under Trump—stems from a pattern of actions that have steadily eroded credibility
Trump, Iran, and the folly of demanding surrender
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Alon Ben-Meir
Netanyahu will always find in Palestine a space in which war can be waged continuously
Israel’s war obsession and the urgency of Palestinian leverage
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Ramzy Baroud
The surge in diesel and jet fuel prices to record highs of over $200 a barrel has cut deeply into transport demand
Iran war may crush oil demand today, but send it soaring long term
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Ron Bousso
Kurdistan newspaper
On the 128th anniversary of Kurdish journalism
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Suzan Amedi
Trump has launched a nightmarish war, by definition a gigantic producer of greenhouse gases
The President of ultimate destruction
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Tom Engelhardt
A demonstrator looks at a sign with pictures of students killed in a strike on a girls primary school in Minab in southern Iran, on the day of a No Kings protest against U.S. President Donald Trumps administration policies, in Boston
The cowardice of qualification: When anti-war voices speak the language of empire
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Ramzy Baroud
Carlson has asserted in recent days that the actual religion of the United States is Israelism
The actual religion of the United States
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Lot Hildegard
The ceasefire in Lebanon was achieved after Presidents Joseph Aoun and Nawaf Salam realized that there was no benefit in a partial exit from the Iranian game
Lebanon chooses to reclaim its land
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Khairallah Khairallah
The stability of the Gulf is not just a regional choice but an urgent international necessity
The war on Iran: Many scenarios, few solutions
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Hatim Betioui
Trump’s declaration that millions might perish is not merely the ravings of an unbalanced mind
Trump’s apocalyptic rhetoric echoes nuclear annihilation
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Alon Ben-Meir
AI-led war
War by algorithm: How AI turned the US–Israel strikes on Iran into a machine-speed conflict
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Altaf Moti
Tanker logistics will still slow any full-scale recovery of energy flows
Opening Hormuz is the easy part. Restoring oil flows isn't
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Ron Bousso
The reality, increasingly evident to observers across the region and beyond, is that the balance is finally shifting
The collapse is real – Lebanon ceasefire marks a historic strategic defeat
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Ramzy Baroud
Palestinian flag
Hope in the data: Can Palestine explain America’s moral shift?
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Ramzy Baroud
Trump's AI generated Easter image
Jesus Christ, Donald Trump, and Easter
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Lot Hildegard
Unconditional US military, financial, and diplomatic backing has enabled Israel’s relentless settlement expansion
The five enablers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Alon Ben-Meir
Clash of civilizations
Is the US-Israel-Iran war a “clash of civilizations”?
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Tanveer Jafri
Donald Trump
The Donald Trump crisis: when a leader’s health becomes a global threat
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Altaf Moti
Sheer destruction
The Lebanon conspiracy: massacres, negotiations, and a new order
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Ramzy Baroud
What unites children of war across geographies is not only loss, but the normalization of survival
Who heals the broken souls of children after war?
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Yamina Hamdi