Crimes must stop before Middle East can be at peace
As the world awaited a possible deal between the US and Iran last week, President Donald Trump launched a fresh angle — that any deal would have to be contingent on a...
What next for Iran regime?
The Iranian regime is a Trotskyist regime. Since 1979, it has pursued a permanent revolution and sought to export it across the region. Interestingly, this export did not look east but only...
Interim EU ties would only strengthen Kyiv’s hand
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already secured his place in both his country’s and the world’s history as a courageous and highly competent leader in extraordinarily difficult times. It is hardly conceivable...
The Baltics urgently need a de-escalation mechanism; Belarus can help
Amid a growing risk of a spillover from the Ukraine war, the Baltic states could use de-escalation channels through Minsk.
Recent weeks have seen a...
NATO and the GCC states ahead of Turkiye summit
In 2004, when Turkiye hosted the NATO summit in Istanbul, the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative was launched to strengthen political and military ties between NATO and the Gulf Cooperation Council member states. The...
Reported terms of Trump’s Iran deal would confirm the war as an epochal failure
US president claims to have almost finalized a ‘Memorandum of Understanding pertaining to PEACE’ with Iran; he’s also mused that Iran might ‘perhaps’ join the Abraham...
Fighting antisemitism requires us to stand together
The exponential rise in antisemitic attacks in the UK, as in many other countries, is a grave cause for concern, not only for the Jewish community but also for those across wider...
Is the ‘Islamabad Declaration’ a necessary truce or start of a long road to...
If the reports surrounding what is now being called the “Islamabad Declaration” are accurate, then what we are witnessing is not a fully-fledged peace agreement between Washington and Tehran, but rather an...
The world urgently needs a US-Iran deal now
Without a deal between Washington and Tehran, the fallout from Hormuz closure could deepen global energy, food and cost-of-living crises.
As negotiations between the United...
Our region awaits decisions whose details are clearly understood
As I followed the state of regional and international politics with sorrow, I was reminded of the saying attributed to Imam Al-Shaabi. Speaking about the four “masterminds of the Arabs,” he said...