By Dost Muhammad Barrech

The U.S.-China tug–of–war

The international world order during the Cold War was a bipolar world order dominated by two great powers the U.S. and USSR. USSR remained a formidable threat to the U.S. and the downfall of the former in 1991 culminated in the emergence of the latter as a sole power.

By Abir Bassam

Biden-Putin summit: A meeting or setting red lines

No one could be holding its breath expecting important outcomes from the summit between the two presidents: Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. 

By Fatemeh Fazli

India's Covid-19 crisis dents PM Modi's image

The devastating Covid-19 crisis in India has irreparably dented the well-crafted image of the country's premier, Narendra Modi, with questions being raised over his style of governance during the pandemic. 

By Abir Bassam

Vienna talks: A multi-part American series

Every time the Iranian government takes the decision to raise the enrichment level in its nuclear reactors, the Americans and the Europeans raise their voices. Their objections are repeated like a cracked disc.

Ahmad Abiyat

Turkey repeating the story of the French cultural occupation in Syria 

Despite the rapid progress in knowledge and dramatic changes in the globe, countries with expansionist ambitions are still following the path of the colonial era. In the midst of this situation, the countries do not abide by the laws and international norms, carrying their bloody record such as historical crimes.

By Mark Dankof

U.S. democracy has been in eclipse after Kennedy assassination

The post-Cold War NATO no longer maintains any pretense of being a defensive alliance 

American “democracy” in any legitimate sense of the term ended with the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas on November 22nd, 1963.

By Rakib Al Hasan 

At the end of Israel-Palestine conflict: The acquisition of Hamas

After series of devastating Israeli airstrikes for more than 10 days, a ceasefire was declared by both Hamas and the Israeli regime. The fighting cost more than 248 Palestinian lives. It also led to massive destruction of properties in the Gaza strip.

By Rakib Al Hasan

U.S. legacy in Afghanistan: Possible reemergence of terrorist groups

Afghans don't have festivals or celebrations in mind, but there are fears!

By Yanis Iqbal

Lebanon's financial meltdown

The Lebanese pound has depreciated about 90% in the past 18 months, driving annual food inflation to 400%, erasing salaries and savings, and pushing more than half the nation into poverty. All this comes at a time when the country is battling the devastation wrought by COVID-19, as well as the ravages from the 2020 Beirut blast.

By Imad al-Din Payande

National information network: More than just a “flash in the pan”!

In recent years, some countries have successfully collaborated with the tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Facebook introduced its legal representative in Turkey to set the agenda for cooperation under the country’s new cyberlaw.

By Martin Love

Imagine what Gaza could become if the siege were lifted…

Words are not sufficient to describe the horrors of what “Israel” (and the U.S. as an enabler) have done in the last two months around al-Aqsa, Sheikh Jarrah and across Palestine, and then Gaza for almost two weeks.

By Munir A. Saeed

Sometimes it takes a volcano to start the healing 

Let me start by saying something some may consider outrageous. 

By Ahmad Abiyat

Two-state solution: Settlement or prolongation of suffering

After a grinding war launched by the Israelis on the Gaza Strip and desecration of Muslim’s first qibla, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, many international organizations, humanitarian institutions and observers are raising questions about the settlement based on a two-state solution: Palestine and Israel. 

By Professor Mahmood Monshipouri

Israel losing the war of moral awakening

The recent war between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza has raised many questions.

By Anthony Mathew Jacob 

Palestine, to whom does it belong?

Palestine is considered sacred to all three religions that trace their roots to Prophet Abraham: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 

By Batoul Sbeity

Britain's historic responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

By 1913, the British Empire was the largest to have ever existed, covering 25% of the world's land surface, including India, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan and most of the South and East African continent. 

By Batoul Sbeity

What makes the Palestinian catastrophe incomparable to any crime that has occurred for humanity? 

Why is Palestine considered the core issue when it comes to human justice, such that Al-Quds Day- a day to raise awareness about the plight of all oppressed groups is done in the name and the sanctity of Al-Aqsa? 

By Batoul Sbeity

Bribed normalization: The reverse effects

In mid-August of 2020, former U.S. President Trump started brokering the normalization of ties between the Wrong State (Israel) and a series of Arab nations, with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco forged open and official ties.

By Steven Sahiounie

The normalization is a betrayal by the Arab monarchies

The resistance is stronger and more united than ever before

The current situation in West Asia is volatile and many-faceted. On the one hand, you have military conflicts and threats; while on the other hand, you have diplomatic negotiations proceeding. For example, there is tension between the Palestinian people and their Israeli occupiers and between Syria and Israel after the missile strike near Dimona nuclear reactor, and between Iran and Israel. On the side of diplomacy, there are the U.S. and international negotiations concerning a revival of Iran's nuclear deal.

By Professor David N. Yaghoubian

Selling out Palestine will not result in regional security and stability

Normalization between expansionist Zionism and regional monarchial despotisms is inherently oxymoronic

The United States is on its back foot in West Asia.

By Sonja van den Ende  

Quds Day: To remember the injustice and criminal deeds of the Zionists

The current situation in West Asia is deteriorating; even there is a new administration in the U.S., which many thought would be promising for the peace process between Israel and Palestine and the stability for peace in Syria, and Iraq.

By Driss Addar

The International Quds Day: Heading towards a historic decisive confrontation 

(The end of Israel may come at a lower cost than the resistance fighters expect)

The International Quds Day embodies the protection of memory, before the land and properties, from abuse. And the holy places always anticipate the sacred act.