What kind of ceasefire allows bombing to resume without warning, vehicles carrying civilians to be struck, homes to collapse upon their inhabitants, and families to continue burying their children?
What kind of ceasefire allows bombing to resume without warning, vehicles carrying civilians to be struck, homes to collapse upon their inhabitants, and families to continue burying their children?
Sovereignty will no longer be measured solely by control over territory, energy or physical infrastructure. The ability to control data, computing power and AI infrastructure will increasingly shape the economic and strategic power of nationsAbdulvehab Ejupi
Israel has become a major source of tension in US. Which party will redefine its stance on Israel, a subject that includes vital cultural, military, political, and religious elements? The answer to that question may determine who controls Congress
Settlement activities, alongside the genocide in Gaza, are steps toward controlling all of Palestine and paving the way for the purported Israeli state extending from the Nile to the Euphrates.Rayan Abed al-Razeq
Rather than labeling his domestic rivals as outright traitors, Netanyahu frames them as the vehicles that will deliver the enemy's desired outcome. This deliberately blurs the line between legitimate political dissent and national betrayalTugce Ersoy Ceylan10 September 2026
Israel has spent half a century telling us stories: none of them about Palestinians, all of them about why Israel ‘needs’ to continue killing them
Mohsen al Attar10 September 2026
China’s efforts to overcome the Malacca dilemma are creating a broader geography of strategic connectivity in which the central question is no longer simply who controls territory, but who can keep the world’s critical passages openVusal Guliyev08 September 2026
Chancellor Merz’s promises to curb the AfD failed to resonate in Saxony-Anhalt; on the contrary, the party captured a greater vote share to the point where it neared the threshold for an absolute majorityErkut Ayvaz07 September 2026
Foundations, once repriced, are rarely restored to par. Trust denominated in dollars can always be devalued again. That is the lesson of this strange August on the Korean Peninsula—and it will outlast any summitGiwoong Jung04 September 2026
Israel continues to create regional instability by illegally invading free neighbouring nations and the Achilles Shield deal with Greece is part and parcel of that trendKlaus Jürgens03 September 2026
In August 2026, Beijing ordered state agencies to strip out Windows build and move to domestic Linux systems. The clearer reading, then, is that Beijing's replacement drive, more than Washington's controls, forms the lasting constraintAryamehr Fattahi02 September 2026
Any significant change in the regional balance inevitably generates reactions. But it would be premature to assume that Mecca will automatically produce an opposing formal allianceKhaled Mohammed Batarfi01 September 2026
The main priority for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization going forward should not be further expansion, but rather converting its sheer size into actual power.Ilyas Kemaloglu31 August 2026
Removal of the final US sanctions on Syria constitutes a renewed diplomatic triumph for Damascus and Ankara, while signaling yet another setback for Tel Aviv's objectives in the Syrian arena
Ahmet Arda Sensoy28 August 2026
Saudi Arabia must realize the risks of allowing its long-term security to rest indefinitely on an external guarantor. A more durable regional order would require the states of Middle East to assume greater responsibility for their own securityGiorgio Cafiero
The most important outcome of Sept. 20 elections may be seen not as one party's success over another, but rather the strengthening of centrifugal dynamics within Germany's party system.Nurgul Bekar
