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The campaign to eradicate Hamas is increasingly resembling a war of revenge and retribution

What is Israel’s end-game In Gaza?

Israel’s actions — from bombing Palestinian families to starving them of food and water – has the blessing of every major Western politician

What the BBC fails to tell you about October 7

Palestinians gather as they mourn over the bodies of those killed in Israeli bombardment in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip

US thinks it’s powerless to stop Gaza genocide

Caitlin Johnstone

While the US still has unrivalled power in the Middle East, its influence has diminished

US diplomatic setbacks make isolating Iran difficult

M.K. Bhadrakumar

The question here is whether Hamas leaders have not considered these consequences

Drawing lessons from Gaza

Palestinians checking the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip

Western political elite‘s war in the Holy Land

Now that the Iron Wall has been breached, what happens to the basic founding premise of the Jewish state?

Gaza-Israel War: Israel’s Iron Wall has fallen

President Biden is not apologetic when it comes to supporting and defending Israel

Biden’ faith and the war in the Holy Land

Public protests in Iran have concluded, but the underlying resentment has not entirely abated

Iranian regime’s behavior: Pragmatism or change?

Israeli soldiers patrol in kibbutz Kfar Aza in southern Israel near the Gaza Strip

It is Israel that uses children in war not Hamas

Mohamed El Metmari

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will never be the same

Gaza-Israel war: The day the status quo ended

The timing of Hamas’ attack obviously was not accidental

Hamas’ brutal attack could have been avoided

A view shows destroyed buildings in the aftermath of the the deadly storm that hit Derna, in Libya

When climate change and a failing state collide

Oussama Romdhani

This is a reasonable and widely accepted approach that embodies Saudi Arabia’s new orientations

Saudi Arabia and the BRICS bloc

"If Somalia becomes a theater for power plays between the West and BRICS, we may well be witnessing the early stages of a new geopolitical cold war"

BRICS and Ethiopia: A new frontier in geopolitical tug-of-war

Ismail D. Osman

The socio-political turmoil in Israel is tearing the country apart

A perilous implosion awaits Israel unless true democracy prevails

The fifth cycle introduces remote voting, enabling voters to cast their ballots from anywhere

Continuity and development in the Emirati Shura approach

Tunisian President Kais Saied receives the UAE Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan al-Nahyan at the Carthage Palace in Tunis, August 4

A tale of two Spartas

Haitham El-Zobaidi

Burnt vehicles after Israeli settlers attacked near Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank last month

The occupation and Jewish values

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Riyadh

Blinken’s visit against the backdrop of Saudi-American ties

No magic trick or balancing act by Netanyahu can possibly control the outcomes

Netanyahu promoting armed intifada in West Bank

'It is now up to Riyadh to seize the opportunity and assert its position as a regional leader and take up the mantle of peace maker'

Saudi Arabia is best positioned to be the peace maker

Erdogan could have experienced a significant drop in his support base from past elections

Telling insights into the Turkish elections

The voting system has now reverted to a proportional representation model

New election system, same corrupt government for Iraq

Victoria Stewart-Jolley

"Every Israeli should remember that the occupation stains the country’s independence day"

An occupying power cannot be a beacon of democracy

Netanyahu’s dream of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia will not be realized

Netanyahu’s dismal failure to guard Israel-Arab relations

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Syria’s comeback to the Arab fold

Limiting Saudi contracts to international companies that have a regional center in the Kingdom is a positive decision

Positive Saudi track 2023

Abdullah Al Alami

Before European Hegemony by Abu-Lughod revisited

Abdus Sattar Ghazali

The US needs an alibi to justify remaining in Syria to fight “terrorism”

US occupiers lash out as Syria War draws to an end

M.K. Bhadrakumar

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