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It has almost become inherent in the minds of Gazans that sudden Israeli attacks or wars, from time to time, have become part of the monotony of life, even...

For years, Palestinians and Israelis have laboured to redraw the battle lines. The three-day Israeli war on Gaza, starting on 5 August, manifested this reality clearly. Throughout its military...

In a pre-dawn raid of the Palestinian neighbourhood of Kafr Aqab on the outskirts of occupied Jerusalem this morning, Israeli Special Forces burst into a home and opened fire...

Politics is at times compared to a game with Machiavellian actors and rogue figures who are out only for themselves. A former British Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston once said:...

Nearly two years after the parliamentary election in Iraq, the parliament in Baghdad has still not been able to choose a new prime minister. This is primarily due to...

On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in Afghanistan reached a critical juncture with the Afghan Taliban assuming power in the country. The...

At least 12 million people have fled their homes since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the UN has confirmed. More than five million are refugees in neighbouring countries, while seven...

When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it served as a necessary reminder...

Israel launched yet another military offensive against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip last Friday. The initial target was an apartment in a high-rise residential building in Gaza...

Stephanie Williams left her position on the last day of July, eight months after being appointed as the UN Secretary General's Special Advisor on Libya. In her final statement...

Israel launched air strikes on the Gaza Strip last Friday in a pre-emptive operation because, it claimed, the Islamic Jihad movement was planning to launch an attack across Gaza's...

A storm seems to be hitting Amnesty International (AI). The international non-governmental organisation has been subject to strong criticisms since the release of its report on 4 August 2022 about the...

A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell justified the latest Israeli onslaught on Gaza by claiming, "While Israel has the right to protect its civilian population, everything...

Injustice, oppression, arbitrary decision-making, persecution and coercion can all be used to describe what the Palestinian people have been experiencing for a century since the League of Nations imposed...

"The deaths of innocent people, particularly children, is heart-breaking," said Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, without any signs that his heart was breaking. All Palestinians, including children, have been...

Today, Israel assassinated a top Palestinian commander, Ibrahim Nabulsi, in Nablus, along with two other fighters, Islam Sabbouh, and Hussein Taha. This bloody action is intrinsically linked to the bloody events in Gaza...

After the end of the latest Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip, which lasted just under sixty hours, criticism of political and military decision-makers began to surface within...

The Russian Ministry of Justice applied to a court recently to shut down the Moscow office of the Jewish Agency for Immigration at a time when Israeli Prime Minister...

It seemed that it was all but a done deal: Israel was finally managing to bend the Arabs to its will, and Palestine was becoming a marginal issue that...

Israel launched a wide-scale offensive against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon. Its stated target was senior Islamic Jihad commander Tayseer Al-Jaabari in his apartment...

Immediately after the announcement that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would visit Taiwan during her Asia tour, the complex relationship between China, Taiwan and the United States resurfaced. China...

For some time now, Al-Qaeda had stopped being the primary target of policy and counterterrorist experts. The erstwhile most dangerous terrorist group in the war on terror following its...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia's relations with the continent, but in the...

As campaigns get underway ahead of Israel's November general election, it is expected that internal Israeli disputes and divisions will increase. Recent polls have confirmed that rates of hate...

Israeli Defence Minister, Benny Gantz, summed up the tense scene in the Gaza envelope by saying: Life will not be normal in the Gaza Strip as long as the...

News of the ministerial appointment of an Al-Shabaab co-founder and spokesperson, Mukhtar Robow, by Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre is welcome news. The move looks well calculated and...

At a meeting with delegates at the Headquarters of the Arab League held in Cairo on Sunday, Assistant Secretary-General, Saeed Abu-Ali, called for the strengthening of the Arab boycott...

As I highlight in my newly published book "The Renaissance of Smart Energy", the Middle East region is more than the Syrian war or visits to Dubai for super-posh...

The Palestinian Authority which arose out of the Oslo Accords with the aim of building Palestinian autonomy, continues to contribute directly and indirectly to the destruction of the idea...

What does Al-Aqsa Mosque have to do with settler campaigns to rebuild the Biblical Temple of Solomon?

This week is the eleventh anniversary of the date that Libyan rebels armed, trained and supplied by Western countries entered the capital Tripoli under NATO air cover. The fall...

Israel has refused to grant a visa permit to one of Gaza's highly acclaimed poet and former Harvard fellow, Mosab Abu Toha. Author of one of the shortlisted books...