As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

Syria is yet another demonstration of an American policy that is woefully out of date. Foreign adventurism has caused both immeasurable harm abroad and sapped American society at home. The US emerged ...

Most people would agree that, as 2025 approaches, the political outlook in western democracies looks uniformly bleak. The United Kingdom at least has a government, whereas France and Germany are in a ...

Liberals hate President-elect Donald Trump, no question about it. He’s the definition of illiberal: authoritarian, racist, sexist and downright nasty. Not only that, he’s a living repudiation of the ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive that led to the fall of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, signaling a major shift in the country’s civil war. The end of Assad's rule is a victory for ...

Today’s media typically sums up the past 13 years of Syria’s history as an enduring civil war sparked by the events collectively referred to as Arab Spring in 2011. Within less than 12 months, ...

There will be a shift in US foreign policy from Joe Biden's "measured" approach to what is expected under a second Donald Trump administration. Under Biden, there were many failures, such as the Build ...

Donald Trump won a decisive comeback victory this year, four years after losing to Joe Biden. In 2016, Trump won the majority of electoral college votes but Hillary Clinton won a majority of the votes ...

Given the drama taking place in the past two days, I decided to launch an experiment that can play out over several weeks or months. I asked ChatGPT about the background on the events that have ...

Exactly 160 years ago, in August 1864, twelve states signed the first Geneva Convention. Its aim was to improve the fate of the wounded and sick among armed forces in the field. It was directly ...

In the early hours of October 17, news started to filter in that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar had been killed by a small group of IDF soldiers in Tal as-Sultan, Rafah. Engaged in battle above ground, ...

Geopolitical tensions are growing globally over the cutting of two subsea cables in the Baltic Sea, and a struggle for dominance between the West and China threatens digital equity. With subsea cables ...