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Assassinated in Lebanon by Israel in 1972, Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani is mostly renowned for his anti-colonial resistance, political writings and works of literary fiction. Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation: 1948 – 1968 (Verso Books, 2026) brings another aspect of Kanafani’s work to an English-speaking public; a deep historical critique of Palestinian literature in the…

Contradictory messages from the U.S. administration raise questions over whether Syria could play a future role in resolving the “Hezbollah” weapons issue or whether Washington is simply managing different priorities.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes appeared intended to project confidence and control to an American audience. Instead, much of the Israeli press saw something else entirely: a leader visibly worn down, politically disoriented, evasive on responsibility, and increasingly trapped by the accumulating consequences of the wars in Gaza and Iran…

Lebanon is on the verge of creating a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Technology. The government has been pushing to advance the draft law quickly, but Parliament just decided to slow things down, referring the proposal to joint parliamentary committees for deeper review. We think that’s the right call, and we want to explain why.…

The fate of the Framework Agreement’s first step remains uncertain as Beirut seeks American guarantees to force an Israeli withdrawal, restore state authority in the south and prevent the agreement from becoming a cover for a prolonged occupation.

A Palestinian took the invaders’ weapon, turning it against them to defend his homeland. Immediately hordes of settlers attacked Palestinian towns throughout the occupied West Bank. This is a common pattern in Palestine and Lebanon, especially after the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood. And it is a calculated one. The occupation imposes as much domination…

The reciprocal strikes between the United States and Iran have entered a more dangerous phase. Two American soldiers have been killed and a third is missing following an attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, while U.S. fighter jets have struck supply routes leading to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. At the same…

Today, as the flags fly at half-staff over the United States Capitol, Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the pews of Washington’s National Cathedral, paying his respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham. The irony is as suffocating as the incense: the man who spent decades lobbying for American blood to be spilled in Israel’s name has…

With diplomacy stalled, the Strait of Hormuz at the center of the conflict, and both sides hardening their positions, Washington and Tehran move closer to a prolonged war of attrition. No one is asking anymore when the war will end, or even expecting a theoretical timeline. This stands in stark contrast to Washington’s initial plans,…

Recently, the law for an AI and IT Ministry was sent back to committees after failing to pass a vote in parliament. Meanwhile, the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Reform (OMSAR) is leading some of the digital transformation work in Lebanon, and there is a structural conflict of interest happening, as I’ve…

A comparison of the occupied areas before 2000 and in 2026 reveals a changing map of control, with Israel reoccupying dozens of villages, imposing fire control over additional areas, and transforming the border zone into an uninhabitable strip.

A photograph is circulating from the Farnborough International Airshow in England, held from 20 to 24 July. It shows Lieutenant General Rui F.G.P. Duarte, a senior Indonesian defence official, posing in front of the stand of Elbit Systems. Elbit is Israel’s largest privately owned arms company, and one of the main manufacturers arming the assault…

While Houthi attacks on maritime traffic have declined, their ability to disrupt navigation remains a strategic tool. The Red Sea has evolved from a battlefield into a bargaining space within a wider regional struggle linking Yemen, the Gulf, the Bab el Mandeb, and the Strait of Hormuz.

HAFIZABAD, Pakistan -In modern warfare, victory is rarely determined by statistics alone. The annals of military history are replete with examples where the seemingly weaker power, through strategic ingenuity and an understanding of the fundamental nature of conflict, fundamentally changed the rules of engagement. Today, we pose a fundamental question: Why are the immense military…

Al Zaydi’s anti corruption campaign and his visit to Washington highlight a shifting balance in Iraq, but the funeral ceremonies for Khamenei reveal that Tehran’s influence remains deeply rooted in the country’s political and religious landscape.

TEHRAN - Former Iran women's national basketball team head coach Eleni Kapogianni has opened up about her memorable yet challenging spell in charge, revealing that personal agendas within Iranian basketball ultimately convinced her to walk away despite the team's historic progress.

From Mali to Spain and France, Algeria’s strategy of cutting ties and applying pressure has repeatedly ended with a return to normal relations, without achieving its stated objectives or changing its partners’ positions.

A French-Lebanese couple set out for Beirut where the man wanted to introduce the woman he wanted to marry to his family. However, as their passenger ship docked in Beirut port, the man’s father refused to allow the woman to disembark from the ship. A powerful and wealthy Greek Orthodox businessman, Musa Sursuq was opposed…

As Iran pushes for a new transit fee system and Oman explores possible frameworks to ease maritime tensions, legal interpretations, regional cooperation, and demands for transparency remain central to any viable solution for one of the world’s most strategic shipping routes.

Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship between both countries. The first incident occurred on 8 July when US Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and his delegation were detained by armed, illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. “These hoodlums…

Tensions between the United States and Cuba are escalating as sanctions tighten, deepening the island’s economic and humanitarian crisis amid growing regional concern.

In recent days, more than forty million people participated in the farewell and funeral ceremonies for the martyred leader of the Revolution, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, in just five cities across Iran and Iraq: Tehran, Qom, Mashhad, Najaf, and Karbala. These ceremonies were marked by deep emotions and anti-American and anti-Zionist slogans.

A high-stakes confrontation stretching from Washington to Tehran, with the Gulf caught in the middle as global powers recalibrate their strategies.

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has ramped up U.S. air strikes on Iran and threatened broader escalation, but there is little sign that a military strategy that has already failed to extract concessions from Tehran will succeed this time. With the collapse of an interim ceasefire deal reached a…

As U.S.-Iran negotiations intensify, Lebanon faces mounting pressure over Hezbollah’s future, Israel’s security demands, and a fragile regional balance that could redefine power across the Middle East.

The question circulating across Lebanese political commentary since the signing of the Washington framework agreement is straightforward: if Hezbollah and Amal oppose the agreement, reject its terms, and consider it a betrayal of their community, why do their ministers remain in the Salam government that signed it? Why not resign? The question assumes that resignation…

A U.S.-hosted framework advances dual-track negotiations in Washington, linking ceasefire arrangements, border withdrawal, and security mechanisms under American coordination.

President Donald Trump’s administration has been accused of waging war against Iran on Israel’s behalf. Israel had made no secret of its determination to draw the United States into such a confrontation, having failed to persuade previous US administrations to do so. Since then, countries across the region have borne the consequences of the war’s…

Rising security incidents, espionage cases, and sectarian incitement highlight deeper structural challenges facing regional stability

MADRID - In Nikolai Gogol’s “The Government Inspector”, corrupt officials in a small Russian town panic at the arrival of a young man from St Petersburg. Ivan Khlestakov is a minor clerk, but the locals’ fear of their own embezzlement elevates him to an imperial auditor. His authority derives not from the tsar, but from…

A tense confrontation in the Strait of Hormuz and the Beijing summit expose a new global order where maritime security, trade routes, and superpower rivalry collide, turning a regional chokepoint into a mirror of 21st-century geopolitics.

TEHRAN- I must state that life experiences have long taught me never to rejoice in anyone’s death, and this holds true for the passing of Senator Lindsey Graham, despite all his grave mistakes.

As Lebanon’s parliament debates a long-delayed general amnesty law, the “Shiite Duo” faces scrutiny over its cautious stance, with lawmakers highlighting disputes over detainees, drug-related cases, and controversial files linked to Israel.

For two decades, I have never been optimistic about the political order built in Iraq after 2003. My scepticism was not emotional but structural: the state was engineered in a way that carried its own failure within it. Even Tom Barrack, the US envoy to Iraq, eventually admitted that Washington had “created a failed state…

Behind claims of liberation and Islamic revival lies a complex reality of authoritarian control, ideological expansion, and lessons the world cannot afford to ignore.

It’s called Section 219. Tucked away in the massive congressional spending bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, this provision of the law would effectively require our nation to permanently entangle the American military with the Israeli military. Among other things, the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative would require the US…

Those remaining within the Iranian regime have no objective beyond self-preservation. Does Hezbollah in Lebanon recognize this, or does it remain beholden to the Revolutionary Guard, which has come to embody and dominate the Iranian regime? The direct negotiations between the “Islamic Republic” and the “Great Satan,” held in Islamabad and mediated …

Donald Trump is not negotiating with Iran. He is negotiating with the humiliation of having failed to break it. Beneath the ceasefires, memoranda, podium theatrics and sanctimonious appeals to “stability” lies a fact Washington cannot admit: the United States entered this confrontation expecting submission and emerged confronting its own limits. It wanted Iran isolated, disarmed…

Europe may be on the brink of a major “liberation revolution” from American technological dependency in the coming months. Like most “revolutions” in the continent’s history, it began in France, where authorities decided to replace the Windows system in their administrations with Linux, following months of replacing Microsoft Teams with the French …

We have been loath to write about the ceasefire given the limitations and the ongoing circus around the “framework agreement” but have decided that now is a good time to address the geopolitical realities stemming from the ill-conceived conflict. The ceasefire with Iran has done exactly what weak agreements tend to do when they are…

Six missiles were launched by elements of the “Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps” from Lebanon toward northern Israel on March 2nd. This added to Lebanon’s existing losses: about ten thousand casualties between dead and injured, 1.2 million displaced people, increased destruction in areas where Hezbollah is present, and a vast number of tragedies. …

Ceasefires in the Middle East seem especially susceptible to revision, alteration and contradiction. Missiles still get fired; airstrikes initiated. Destruction to infrastructure, and death, follows. Yet despite the misunderstandings, the sniping and the harrying, these odd understandings are often described by those funny political coves as “holding”. In the case of the ceasefire between Tehran…

While attention is focused on Islamabad, awaiting the outcome of diplomacy between Washington and Tehran, Iran remains overshadowed by the “Twelve-Day War” complex, which has become a practical model for President Trump’s policy, as described by reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin. The United States begins by setting a hopeful tone, then s…

Can Lebanon extract a genuine, equitable peace from the 26th June Trilateral Framework Agreement (TFA)? The simple answer is yes, but that “yes” comes at a devastating cost. Marketed by Washington as a breakthrough, the framework is fraught with severe imbalances. As Lebanese political figures and civil society groups have already pointed out, the agreement…

The Saudi leadership is taking the ongoing U.S.-Iranian negotiations, brokered by Pakistan, very seriously, even though it is not directly part of them. However, not having a seat at the negotiating table does not mean Saudi Arabia is out of the equation, as its national interests and national security remain central to the calculations of…

For Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the defence of Palestine was never a circumstantial matter of foreign policy. Rather, it constituted the enduring axis of his political, diplomatic and strategic vision throughout nearly four decades as Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Palestinian cause has ceased to be merely…

VANCOUVER — I am writing these words as I watch with tearful eyes the live funeral procession of the martyred Leader of Iran, the late Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Like countless Iranians abroad, I wish I could stand among the millions who are gathering to bid him farewell. Distance may keep me from the funeral,…

TEHRAN - Throughout history, political turmoil and national betrayal have often been linked, and Lebanon today is no exception. It faces a dangerous moment where its own officials are making deals that serve Israeli interests.