Oct 11, 2023 04:15 am UTC| Insights & Views
Saudi Arabias cabinet recently approved the decision to join the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). This could be a signal that Riyadh, with all its energy reserves, is choosing sides in the Ukraine war....
Oct 11, 2023 04:15 am UTC| Insights & Views
An encounter in which a Chinese naval ship cut across the path of a U.S. destroyer in the Taiwan Strait on June 3, 2023, has both Beijing and Washington pointing fingers at each other. It was the second near miss in the...
Oct 11, 2023 03:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
Hamas surprise attack on Southern Israel on 7 October marks the bloodiest assault the state has sustained since its creation in 1948. At the time of writing, the death toll on the Israeli side has reached 900. In Gaza,...
Israeli hostages will undoubtedly be used as human shields in brutal Hamas-Israel war
Oct 11, 2023 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
It is usually quite difficult to get people and things in and out of Gaza. Until this weekend. Thousands of rockets poured out of Gaza, and more than 100 Israelis were taken hostage by Hamas. Gilad Erdan, Israels...
Children in Palestine and Israel continue to suffer as international law is routinely ignored
Oct 11, 2023 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
Among the hundreds already dead in the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas, very many are children. And despite the killing of children being invoked by both sides as evidence of their enemys brutality, the death...
Oct 11, 2023 03:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
Defining what is and isnt a country is a lot more complicated than many people would realize. Take the case of Taiwan. On Aug. 30, 2023, a committee of the U.K. Parliament referred to Taiwan as an independent country in...
Why Al-Aqsa remains a sensitive site in Palestine-Israel conflict
Oct 10, 2023 07:39 am UTC| Insights & Views
As a scholar of global Islam, I teach an introduction to Islam course and include a discussion about Al-Aqsa as part of the syllabus. Thats because Al-Aqsa has deep religious significance for Muslims around the...
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