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- The received wisdom in the aftermath of Russia’s attack on Ukraine was that it would precipitate a collapse in support for the Kremlin-aligned far right throughout the Western world. However, despite the massive European outpouring of support for Ukraine, two of Vladimir Putin’s closest Europ...
- Within a week of each other this May, two elections will have decisive consequences for the balance of power in the Middle East. In both the Iraqi and Lebanese elections, Iranian-backed coalitions are currently the largest and best-organized forces, with strong prospects for increasing their sh...
- For some time, the best the media could say about Syria’s gruesome conflict was: “At least it’s grinding to a close.” This supposed light at the end of the tunnel has been the international community’s sole justification for failing to lift a finger to halt the carnage. So how come the UN’s human...
- With each passing day the Lebanese ship sinks deeper under water. The drowning of more than a dozen desperate citizens on an overloaded migrant boat off the coast of Tripoli last week was stark evidence of why elections are necessary to transform this appalling reality, but still there are thos...
- The life expectancy of Daesh’s “caliphs” gets ever shorter. The group has been forced to acknowledge the second death of a leader in just a few months. Militants are not even particularly grieved about these losses because they know nothing about either the new or the old leaders; they simply b...
- President Hassan Rouhani’s recent Iraq visit produced deals in the fields of oil, trade, health and bilateral rail infrastructure. (AFP) US forces still have not departed from eastern Syria, yet Tehran is already rushing to fill the void. Iranian agents have been offering cash, food, ID...
- The recent trilateral meeting in Jerusalem, between Russia, the US and Israel, has been subjected to drastically different assessments: From those who melodramatically view it as a new Sykes-Picot for carving up regional influence (particularly as there were no Arab parties in the room); to tho...
- Are Lebanon’s leaders seeking to further provoke their long-suffering citizens? Protesters rail at Iranian interference, while foreign donors refuse to bankroll a militant-dominated regime — so the authorities nominate a Hezbollah-favored candidate to be prime minister. Lebanese warn that t...
- Three of Hisham Al-Hashimi’s children and his distraught young wife watched as his bloodied, bullet-riddled body was dragged from his car moments after masked men on motorcycles shot him repeatedly at point-blank range. CCTV footage amply displays the cold-blooded professionalism of Hashimi’s k...
- There is something almost tragi-comic about Iraqi prime ministers’ predilection for visiting Tehran and Riyadh in immediate succession, whether the intention is to play one side off against the other or simply to prove to the Americans that Iraq isn’t trapped in the Tehran camp. It is hugely ...
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