Hamas’s leader in Gaza Strip, Yahya al-Sinwar, who spent more than 2 decades in Israeli prison, was released in prisoner exchange
Just three days after it assassinated Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, Israel had decided to double down on its criminal mischief. The orders were...
Who is winning the war in Ukraine depends on who is doing the talking. Predictably, Russia says that it is winning as planned, while the United...
I am not ready to speak about Shireen in the past tense. Not today. Perhaps not ever. Shireen has covered the cruelty of the Israeli occupation for...
The Global South is divided over who bears the responsibility for the Ukraine tragedy in the Global North. Many blame Russia for its imperial...
“In terms of a Cold War… you have the vast majority of the rest of the world in total opposition to what is doing… It’s going to be a cold...
After months of military build-up and weeks of intensive diplomacy, the crisis in Ukraine is at a critical juncture. It may turn towards a military...
Last week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem in calling...
As US President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda ‘build back better’ faces major challenges in Congress, he seems to have taken his schema to the...
After a strong start that included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization, both of which Trump abandoned, President Joe...
There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that ‘another civil war is...
There is much to lament, much to loathe and more to dread in these difficult and uncertain times. And yet, given the choice between fear and...
Over the past 10 years, American and European reactions to the Arab Spring have demonstrated why Western democracies cannot be trusted with the...
Israeli hyperbole is as old as the Israeli state. It is tautological, serving as the raison d’etre and modus operandi of Israel, the garrison...
The Israeli occupation, repression, disruption, discrimination, property confiscation or home demolition are a decades-long daily affair. Likewise,...
The way forward for the new Biden administration cannot be the way back. Harking back to the Obama era and stacking his administration with...
The United States presidential elections were supposed to produce a sweeping victory for Joe Biden and a decisive win for the Democrats. The vote...
Ever since United States President Donald Trump tasked his boy genius, Jared Kushner, with bringing peace to the Middle East, he has been a man on a...
The Trump administration has finally lifted the curtains on the final act of its Middle East diplomacy by revealing the long-awaited, ahem, "peace...
Over the past two years, the Trump administration has launched an all-out diplomatic assault on the Palestinians, while preparing a new initiative...
So far, revolutionaries in Sudan and Algeria are still firmly on the path of non-violence, a la Tunisia and Egypt.Peaceful protest has proven the...
There’s lots of talk about Plan B in Washington as the Obama administration looks for alternatives to its failed Syria policy. The same goes...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France and the 20-plus countries attending the peace conference in Paris this week to butt out of the...
Any self-respecting news outfit, or any other organisation concerned with outreach, is better off employing an army of community managers and...
The shift in the West’s approach to Syria started on September 30, 2015, with the Russian military intervention on the side of the weakened...
