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Britain welcomes complicity: Herzog’s visit exposes a hollow foreign policy

As European states begin to take even modest steps to hold Israel accountable, Britain chooses to roll out the red carpet for President Isaac Herzog, a man whose words helped legitimise mass killing and starvation in Gaza.

Britain welcomes complicity: Herzog’s visit exposes a hollow foreign policy

Britain welcomes complicity: Herzog’s visit exposes a hollow foreign policy

Israel’s expansionist drive from Jerusalem to Gaza is a recipe for endless war

Israel’s expansionist drive from Jerusalem to Gaza is a recipe for endless war

Israel’s expansionist drive from Jerusalem to Gaza is a recipe for endless war

From the E1 settlement plan to the occupation of Gaza City, Israel is dismantling any possibility of Palestinian statehood.

By Mohammad Alqeeq

Israel, Türkiye, and the challenge of Syria’s post-war stability

Israel, Türkiye, and the challenge of Syria’s post-war stability

Israel, Türkiye, and the challenge of Syria’s post-war stability

Israel aims to keep Syria fragmented, while Türkiye’s growing role could support stability and strengthen Damascus’ sovereignty.

By Ahmet Arda Sensoy

Remembering Aysenur Ezgi Eygi: The struggle for justice continues

Remembering Aysenur Ezgi Eygi: The struggle for justice continues

Remembering Aysenur Ezgi Eygi: The struggle for justice continues

A tribute to the 26-year-old activist, writer, and friend whose life and death reveal both the brutality of Israeli military violence and the failures of US officials to seek accountability.

Zangezur Corridor, a century-long artery between rivalry and resilience

Zangezur Corridor, a century-long artery between rivalry and resilience

Zangezur Corridor, a century-long artery between rivalry and resilience

Anchored by Türkiye, the Zangezur Corridor promises new east–west connectivity. But whether it drives cooperation or rivalry depends on Washington and Beijing.

By Huseyin Nurlu

Beyond the West: The SCO’s quest for a multipolar world

Beyond the West: The SCO’s quest for a multipolar world

Beyond the West: The SCO’s quest for a multipolar world

The just-concluded summit in China’s Tianjin laid the roadmap for the bloc to chart its own path, away from the pulls and pressures of the US-led West.

Behind The Headlines

In Gaza, Israel's genocidal war is depriving young Palestinians of food and education

In Gaza, Israel's genocidal war is depriving young Palestinians of food and education

In Gaza, Israel's genocidal war is depriving young Palestinians of food and education

Erdogan at SCO summit signals Türkiye's new role in Eurasian balancing act

Erdogan at SCO summit signals Türkiye's new role in Eurasian balancing act

Erdogan at SCO summit signals Türkiye's new role in Eurasian balancing act

Djoomart Otorbaev

The world’s media falls silent in solidarity, Gaza’s journalists are silenced forever

The world’s media falls silent in solidarity, Gaza’s journalists are silenced forever

The world’s media falls silent in solidarity, Gaza’s journalists are silenced forever

Behind the Flags: How England’s ‘grassroots’ patriotism masks a far-right agenda

Behind the Flags: How England’s ‘grassroots’ patriotism masks a far-right agenda

Behind the Flags: How England’s ‘grassroots’ patriotism masks a far-right agenda

A sudden surge of Saint George flags is being sold as a harmless show of national pride. But the movements behind it, and the racial hostility it emboldens, suggest something far more troubling.

By Yousra Samir Imran

UK Muslims targeted in plot that barely made headlines

UK Muslims targeted in plot that barely made headlines

UK Muslims targeted in plot that barely made headlines

Why does the UK treat far-right plots against Muslims as minor crime, not terrorism? The silence around Islamophobic violence underlines a chilling double standard in Britain’s media and political response, and risks normalising deadly prejudice.

By Sunniya Ahmad Pirzada

Israel’s obliteration doctrine in Gaza is a tested strategy of total destruction

Israel’s obliteration doctrine in Gaza is a tested strategy of total destruction

Israel’s obliteration doctrine in Gaza is a tested strategy of total destruction

Israel’s policy of annihilation was first tested two decades ago without international intervention. The total devastation achieved in Gaza is a prelude to much worse.

By Dr Dan Steinbock

Eight years after genocide, the Rohingya remain abandoned to starvation and silence

Eight years after genocide, the Rohingya remain abandoned to starvation and silence

Eight years after genocide, the Rohingya remain abandoned to starvation and silence

Once promised protection and justice, the Rohingya now face a collapsing refugee response in Bangladesh, deliberate starvation in Myanmar, and abandonment by the international community.

By Maung Tun Khin

Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators

Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators

Myanmar to Gaza: Impotence of courts in preventing genocides and punishing perpetrators

Eight years after Myanmar’s army launched a violent campaign to erase the Rohingya, the global community has done little to bring the perpetrators to book.

By Natalie Brinham, Maung Zarni

A flawed policy: The US war on drugs in Latin America criminalises people

A flawed policy: The US war on drugs in Latin America criminalises people

A flawed policy: The US war on drugs in Latin America criminalises people

Washington’s strategy of using force in its war on drug cartels is not working. Because it’s a flawed concept that targets civilians.

By Alfonso Insuasty Rodriguez

Israel’s E1 plan turns the two-state solution into a two-state illusion

Israel’s E1 plan turns the two-state solution into a two-state illusion

Israel’s E1 plan turns the two-state solution into a two-state illusion

Thousands of Palestinians face displacement and fragmentation as Israel approves construction that severs the occupied West Bank. World leaders must choose between words and action.

Spotlight

Operation ‘falling lion’: Israeli spy agency Mossad’s collapse in Türkiye

Operation ‘falling lion’: Israeli spy agency Mossad’s collapse in Türkiye

A nation at the crossroads: Pashinyan’s ‘Real Armenia’ and what it means for the Caucasus

A nation at the crossroads: Pashinyan’s ‘Real Armenia’ and what it means for the Caucasus

Muhammad Shehada

Why the outrage now? Annihilating Gaza was Netanyahu’s endgame from day one

Why the outrage now? Annihilating Gaza was Netanyahu’s endgame from day one

Ozan Ahmet Cetin

The limits of global AI control and what it means for the world order

The limits of global AI control and what it means for the world order

Spotlight

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

In the race to master artificial intelligence, the United States and China are not just building faster algorithms; they are constructing rival blueprints for the digital world’s future.

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

Can a Trump-Putin deal without Zelenskyy achieve peace in Ukraine?

Ahead of crucial talks between the US and Russian presidents in Alaska, the spotlight is on the absence of a key actor.

Can a Trump-Putin deal without Zelenskyy achieve peace in Ukraine?

Can a Trump-Putin deal without Zelenskyy achieve peace in Ukraine?

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

In the race to master artificial intelligence, the United States and China are not just building faster algorithms; they are constructing rival blueprints for the digital world’s future.

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

Dominance to dependence: How the US–China AI race is shaping the future

Can a Trump-Putin deal without Zelenskyy achieve peace in Ukraine?

Ahead of crucial talks between the US and Russian presidents in Alaska, the spotlight is on the absence of a key actor.

Can a Trump-Putin deal without Zelenskyy achieve peace in Ukraine?

Can a Trump-Putin deal without Zelenskyy achieve peace in Ukraine?