Leaving Israel is easier, Shira Z. Carmel thinks, by saying it's just for now. But she knows better. For the Israeli-born singer and an...

It’s been not just two weeks since the Syrian rebels sprung into a spree of excitement and joy of freedom with celebratory tunes being...

As the house of Assad collapses, Syria’s great tragedy could be that it is not left to rebuild in peace In the final chapter of the sixth...

Last week, Norway revealed its intention to establish a new joint warfare centre with NATO to train US, British, and Dutch marines in...

Thirteen years after the Arab Spring, the price of freedom across West Asia and the Arab world has been more chaos and instability More...

When the Arab Spring erupted in 2011, it swept across North Africa and the Middle East like a tidal wave of discontent. Tunisia ignited...

Every leader in Islamabad eventually learns the lesson that the benefactor is always stronger than the beneficiary. On November 27,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Last week, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime...

The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, was more than the end of a Cold War relic; it was a thunderclap of freedom that...

In H.G. Wells’ classic War of the Worlds (1898), Earth narrowly survives an invasion from Mars, thanks to its smallest residents -...

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (R) with Qi Zhennhong, the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka at the Presidential Secretariat. Anura...

Indonesia is relocating its national capital to a new city called Nusantara, located in East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. The...

In a decisive victory that surprised few, Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power (NPP) party, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake,...

Sri Lanka’s economic downfall is a complex tale, entwined with corruption, mismanagement, and geopolitical miscalculations. At the heart...

Once again, the exit polls missed the mark. In a year where predictions leaned heavily in favour of Kamala Harris - first as the...

In Sri Lanka, the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings of 2019 continues to reverberate, influencing not only national security policy...

Mukhtar Babayev, COP29 President, speaks during the opening plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan. The...

Sri Lanka is on the brink of another defining electoral chapter. Almost two months since the dissolution of the 16th Parliament on...

In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s remarkable victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, one might expect the so-called ‘liberals’...

On an ordinary day at Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University, a student’s act of protest sent shockwaves across the globe. In a...