Ali Abootalebi Informed Comment The Arab states have long suffered from weak political legitimacy and ineffective governance. Authoritarian rule remains pervasive. According to Freedom House, no Arab country is currently…
Rezgar Akrawi, Counter Punch. On 25 August 2026, Mazloum Abdi announced from the People’s Palace in Damascus the end of the mission of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and their…
Ibrahim Al-Marashi The Conversation The Red Sea often makes headlines as the launch site for attacks on oil tankers and infrastructure by the Houthi rebels, a political and religious group…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Turkish government has become an ever greater thorn in the side of the expansionist, far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. On Friday, Turkish Justice…
Shahram Akbarzadeh Informed Comment On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed a pact in Mecca. The joint statement declared an attack on one as an attack on all.…
The new defense agreement among Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan highlights how Israeli aggression is compelling the region to reconfigure its alliances and serves as the latest evidence of the…
Abdullah al-Ahsan Informed Comment On 7 August 2026, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye signed a trilateral defense agreement in Mecca declaring that an armed attack against any one of the…
Juan Cole Informed Comment The new Mecca Defense Pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signals a regional response to the new insecurity in the region provoked by the…
The Trump administration’s expanding confrontation with Iran is increasingly exposing the limits of military power in a rapidly changing global order. What began as an effort to pressure Tehran has,…
Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. In a Le Monde op-ed, Oman’s Badr al-Busaidi argues the West’s decades-long policy of “containing” Iran was always misguided. And that the true threat comes from Tel…
Juan Cole Informed Comment In response to the renewed American bombing of southeastern Iran ports and facilities, including civilian infrastructure, the Iranian military responded Saturday with attacks on US bases…
News Desk, The Cradle. The arrests come ahead of Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s visit to Washington next month. And as Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi made a surprise visit to…
Hossam Shaker for Middle East Monitor People can be consciously aware of atrocities without experiencing the moral outrage those horrors warrant. This emotional detachment is particularly pronounced when atrocities target…
For further reading, the interview references the article “Stop ‘Greater Israel’ to Make Peace”: In which Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares argue that the ideology of “Greater Israel” has become…
Robert Inlakesh hosts The Target LIVE Mint Press News More than two years after six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside her rescuers in Gaza, Hezbollah is systematically targeting commanders linked…
