Protests took place in Syria on October 23 as Syrians condemned “Israeli incursions and attacks,” according to Syrian state media. The protests came a day after Syrians claimed an unarmed civilian...
The United Nations has turned moral inversion into an art form. The UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee, which handles decolonization, passed a Russian-sponsored resolution on October 15 that seeks...
Iraq is at a new crossroads. On October 8 and 12, Iranian drones targeted Kurdish Iranian opposition groups based in northern Iraq. These are just several of more than 1,000 attacks by Iran on Iraq over...
The US and its allies have no alternative but to prove to Iran-backed terror groups that closing straits to influence the global economy and political and operational decisions will not succeed.
In the wake of the departure of US forces from Iraq on September 30, Baghdad faces renewed challenges associated with the country’s powerful Iran-backed militias. Members of the Popular Mobilization...
On October 4, at their Brighton conference, members of the Green Party of England and Wales adopted a motion equating Zionism with racism and refused to protect members affiliated with a synagogue. This development raises questions for the entire European Green political family, including France’s Les Écologistes.
On September 23, the US-backed Board of Peace (BoP) unveiled a $2.45 billion, six-month Gaza recovery plan, but its implementation remains stalled by disagreements over Hamas’s disarmament and Israel’s...
The latest round of conflict between Pakistan and the Taliban continued this past week, including airstrikes, cross-border attacks, targeted operations, and a car bombing. The fighting appears likely to...
Lebanese Shia activists claiming to oppose Hezbollah have made their way to Washington, where they met U.S. decision-makers who believed that their guests were advancing peace. The catch is that these...
Antisemitism simmers within the world body, most notably these days in the actions and words of Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the “occupied Palestinian territories.”
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al Zaidi indicated that the country would disarm Iranian-backed militias by June 2027, according to a report in The New York Times on September 21. He made the comments during...
To understand the economic devastation Iran is now experiencing, look no further than the trucks choking its borders. Thousands of them have lined up at land crossings into neighboring Turkey and Afghanistan,...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a reciprocal “energy ceasefire” with Russia during his meeting with President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly. The move suggested a calculated...
Trump makes his case and raises the stakes for the Islamic Republic in New York.
The Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a Yazidi armed group based in northern Iraq, has agreed to disarm, the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Office said on September 11. In the wake of the agreement,...
The United Nations was formed “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Yet more armed conflicts rage worldwide today than at any point since the world body’s formation at the end...
On Monday, July 27, at the United Nations Security Council, American diplomats stood up and walked out as the French ambassador began to speak. Ukraine was the item on the agenda that day. In Moscow and...
The next UN leader will take office at a time when the international body is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of purpose.
If this issue is seen as the anchor of the region’s broader woes, that is not because the cold data bears it out, but because much of the world has been swayed by a decades-long propaganda effort initiated by the Soviet Union and its Arab allies.