Saad Hariri’s resignation highlights Hezbollah’s malignant role in Lebanon
What a difference a few months make. Back in the summer when I mentioned having second thoughts about visiting Beirut, Prime Minister Saad Hariri...
A dangerous moment for Ukraine's fragile ceasefire
Behind the scenes, U.S. diplomats are rediscovering Ukraine as a foreign-policy priority.
On Jan. 15, Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland met with a key...
Jeddah Municipality cracking down on land robbers
Earlier this year Jeddah Municipality launched a major crackdown on land encroachers. They started by bulldozing the many walled plots of land that belong...
Lifting Iran arms embargo would increase regional disorder
The already-volatile situation in the Middle East is likely to be pitched into even greater discord by mid-October, as the probability increases that an...
'You get one shot' How Justice Antonin Scalia viewed the world
After Justice Antonin Scalia's death at a remote West Texas hunting resort last weekend, I remembered how he had described his passion for the...
OPEC has stalled the shale revolution
The resilience of U.S. shale producers has surpassed all expectations as they have wrung extra efficiencies out of their operations and pulled rigs back...
Palestinians all too familiar with oppression of lockdowns
If you think the coronavirus pandemic is the worst thing you have experienced, you haven’t experienced the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which has been...
El Nino's end offers ray of hope for the distillate market
Britain's Labour Party adopted the song "Things can only get better" as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions...
Why lifting oil export ban can help U.S. foreign policy
A House of Representatives bill is due to go to the floor this week, one step closer to lifting the 40-year-old ban on the...
Jumping off maps is forbidden
A stable Iraq, which comprises all the nation’s components, is needed at the Arab, regional and international levels. The removal of the Iraqi leg...
