by Dr M Makram Balawi

A linguistic analysis of the "Jerusalem Declaration" signed by US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on 14 July exposes the nature of the document.

by Anadolu Agency

Each event, both in the past and present, could be approached from a different perspective and placed in various contexts. Russian President Vladimir Putin's trip to Iran is no exception. Some implications and expectations of this visit are clear. Still, there is another aspect of the story, and observers usually overlook it: in visiting Iran, Putin or some other members of the Russian elite might think about following the Iranian path. Yet, it is hardly possible in present-day Russia.

by Yvonne Ridley

These are troubling times for the men who claim to run the world's greatest democracy. They have meddled so much in other countries' democratic systems and undermined so many overseas elections that their treachery is beginning to backfire.

by Motasem A Dalloul

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's Tehreek-e-Insaf Party won a landslide victory in the local by-elections in Punjab – the largest and most populous province in the country gaining 15 of the 20 seats available.

The result was a blow to the ruling coalition of current Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif, who was the head of the opposition which ousted Khan through a no-confidence vote in April.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

In a blog entry, reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Bali, Indonesia, on 7-8 July, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have accepted the painful truth that the West is losing what he termed "the global battle of narratives".

by Motasem A Dalloul

American President Joe Biden landed in Israel on Wednesday and started his four-day tour of the Middle East, the first since he took office. Moments after landing in Tel Aviv, he delivered a speech which outlined his intentions during this controversial tour.

by Dr Ramzy Baroud

The G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26-28, and the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, two days later, were practically useless in terms of providing actual solutions to ongoing global crises – the war in Ukraine, the looming famines, climate change and more. But the two events were important, nonetheless, as they provide a stark example of the impotence of the West, amid the rapidly changing global dynamics.

by Yvonne Ridley

Rainswept and bleak, Gleann Fhiodhaig in the northwest Scottish Highlands couldn't be more different from Jabal Ar-Rahmah, which shimmers in the baking heat and desert climes on the outskirts of Makkah, known to millions of Muslim pilgrims around the world as Mount Arafat. Despite the thousands of miles that sets them apart, there is an indelible link between the two, thanks to an unlikely Victorian explorer and convert to Islam.

by Nasim Ahmed

A "forensic analysis" by the US Security Coordinator (USSC) has concluded that shots fired by an Israeli occupation solider "was likely responsible for the death of Shireen Abu Akleh", the US State Department said yesterday in a statement on the killing of the Palestinian-American journalist by an Israeli sniper in May.

by Munir Shafiq

How do we understand the United States' initiation of a military front in Ukraine against Russia? The apparent fact of opening a military front in Ukraine indeed indicates that it was Russia that mobilised military forces and began to launch a war, or firing but, in fact, the US is behind preparing the ground for the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

by John Kemp

US President Joe Biden has called on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers to increase their oil output to help stabilise prices, which have surged as a result of a strong rebound in consumption after the pandemic and now sanctions on Russia, Reuters reports.

But Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members probably do not have much spare capacity to raise output by a significant amount for more than a few months.

by Ramona Wadi

A recent poll by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research showed that there is significant disillusion with Palestinian politics. Arguably most notable is the opposition to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas's decision-making, a further deterioration in his popularity as leader and, more importantly, a decrease in support for the two-state compromise and even the one-state framework.