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The US launches drone strikes against groups or individuals whose behavior simply fits a “suspect” category

“Bride and Boom!”

The war in Ukraine resuscitated a certain dangerous fascination for war

The Dangerous Idea of a Well-Behaved War

Antonio De Lauri

The question of mercenaries or foreign fighters is not bereft of irony

Foreign fighters: a legal and political framework of the phenomenon

"we wonder why the world is wholeheartedly sympathetic with the Ukrainians while it was much less sympathetic with the Palestinians"

The Palestinians are also humans like the Ukrainians

Abu Mosa Island

Occupied UAE Islands: Iran’s mixed signals

Cars drive past a destroyed Russian tank as a convoy of vehicles evacuating civilians leaves Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv

Would a “cold” war be the best news around?

Veterans of the Azov volunteer battalion

When US House Saw Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis

Ukrainian soldiers unload weapons from the trunk of an old car, northeast of Kyiv

How the Ukrainian crisis affects Middle East?

Ukrainian servicemen ride on top of an armored personnel carrier in Kyiv

How can the war end?

NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete

Chronicle of a war foretold

Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of rethinking the reduction of their military presence in the Middle East

Is Washington repositioning in the Middle East?

'What is truly diabolical is that, while constantly accusing the Russian bear of plotting to expand, the whole policy is directed at goading it into expanding! '

US foreign policy is a cruel sport

Diana Johnstone

'Russia repeatedly objected to NATO’s eastward march'

How did we get here?

The Dome of the Rock in the Aqsa mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem

If you can't beat them, join them!

The idea that the US faces a perilous new cold war that could grow hot at any moment

The US military, post-Afghanistan

AMISOM has been providing peacekeepers to Somalia since early 2007

The AMISOM mission in SOMALIA certainly expensive, but has it been successful?

Ismail D. Osman

Dubai Expo 2020 will be held on October 1

Why the UAE was selected for Expo 2020

Farmaajo’s four-year term in office expired on February 8

EU and US must decide if Farmajo is a friend or a foe

Ismail D. Osman

Taliban fighters stand guard inside the airport in Kabul after US troop pullout

The West must not repeat old habits of conceptual errors in Afghanistan

Ehsan Azari Stanizai

Erdogan said he had no qualm with the Taliban’s beliefs and stating that his government was in accord with them

A new role designed for Turkey: A ‘pivotal player’ in Afghanistan

Morocco's fight against extremism has proved fruitful thanks to its reintegration program

Terrorism: a death industry that is fading away thanks to a strategy seeking the ‎reintegration of former terrorists

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘Former friend’ is shattering Erdogan’s regime both at home and abroad

'The dead workers were treated like slaves'

6500 workers have died in the construction of World Cup 2022 in Qatar

Turning northern Iraq into a safe zone is highly vital for Iraq future and unity

Closing the security vacuum in northern Iraq

Protesters carry an Arabic banner that reads: "Save the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Freedom for Palestine"

Israel’s claim to Sheikh Jarrah land

Europe's leaders should begin to place Rezaee on their radar

Is Mohsen Rezaee emerging as Iran's pragmatic leader?

"Drone strikes are causing more and more Yemenis to hate America"

Biden’s drone wars

Iran and China on March 27 signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement

Iraq and the Chinese-Iranian agreement

State Department spokesman Ned Price (L) listens as US special envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking speaks via teleconference during a news conference at the State Department in Washington

The return of high commissioners an early sign of Biden’s hubris

Haitham El-Zobaidi

David T. Fischer, US Ambassador to Morocco, stands before a US State Department-authorised map of Morocco recognising the Western Sahara as a part of the North African kingdom

US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara: A historic diplomatic masterstroke

Bouzekri Chakroune

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