Why now is the time for a new Middle East alliance
The COVID-19 pandemic has not changed many of the geopolitical challenges for the US in the Middle East. Iran will continue to export its...
Egypt beware: Daesh militants who survive will have to go somewhere
Daesh seems to be shaking before finally falling down. It started a few months ago when different parties felt that Daesh had served its...
How coronavirus could help revive multilateralism
As the world struggles to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and mitigate its impact on our lives and livelihoods, it should be clear to...
Davos: With the Saudis absent, Zarif’s fairy tales prevailed
Iranian Foreign Minster Mohammad Javad Zarif certainly got a free ride at this year’s World Economic Forum. His views on the region went completely...
On Canada's election trail tales of bathrobes, hairstyles, mugs and pants
One candidate had to drop out after video footage emerged showing him peeing in a cup, another hid in bushes in camouflage to catch...
Well done, America, you’ve crushed Daesh. Now what?
Of all the cities in the Middle East that have been flattened in the past five years, and the list is long, Raqqa has...
Willing to pay the ultimate price to protect animals
Protecting the environment can be deadly.
At least two defenders fighting against environmental destruction around the world were killed each week last year.
Many more people...
BDS extremists are playing into their enemies’ hands
By the time Hurricane Harvey ended its destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and the Texas coast in August, 75 people had lost their...
Virus crisis to accelerate breakdown in Iran’s client states
As if losing their most famous general and facing the prospect of unending US sanctions wasn’t enough, there’s now another thing for the embattled...
The best reason for Iran deal? The West will learn where to drop bombs.
In the emotional debate in Congress over the Iran nuclear deal, both sides claim they do not want war.
But their ways to avoid it...











































