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In our Middle East, the foam of attacks on international sanctions imposed by the West on some countries in the region is rising, and the idea that sanctions are the root of calamities in the region and that they are only part of colonial dictation policies is being promoted. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and China's accession to the WTO, the system of globalization sponsored and practically managed by the United States expanded. China has taken advantage of this t

As Syria approaches a decisive moment, I contend that the continued delay of genuine national reconciliation efforts now poses an imminent threat of fragmentation and territorial disintegration. At a time when Benjamin Netanyahu expresses surprise at the speed with which the Syrian side has offered concessions to advance security negotiations, the United States is exerting maximum pressure on Damascus to sign a security agreement with Israel. Israel, in turn, insists on a con

The struggle for influence in post-2024 Syria is no longer reduced to the question of who wins , but rather measured by a far more dangerous one: who decides .In Damascus, the new “High Commissioners” are gathering—negotiating security, airspace and territory, sanctions and borders—producing top-down arrangements that dismantle Syrian national sovereignty, entirely detached from any Syrian mandate. Thus, Syria’s deep, bleeding wounds are driven ever further into the bone. The

Samir Taqi The harvest does not own the fields, just as the rifle cannot claim the meaning of revolution. Tools are borrowed; land, crops, blood, and pain belong solely to their rightful owners. The Syrian struggle for freedom, democracy, and civic life began when the heroes of May 6 ascended the Ottoman gallows in Damascus and Beirut; when Syrian men and women joined together to forge a pluralistic national pact in the face of French occupation; and when the Syrian people st

Syrian academic Samir al-Taqi told Al Arabiya/Al Hadath Net that “the goal of this consultative forum is to restore Syrian unity.” The Syrian Consultative Forum convened today, Saturday, in the Belgian capital, Brussels. The two-day event is organized by political, academic, and cultural figures to discuss the “form of the state” and to “evaluate the transitional phase” that Syria entered following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December of last year. Participants i

Neither Syria Nor Gaza Is the Last Site of Genocide in the Region At the heart of this scene rises the question of “Israeli supremacy,” where overwhelming force is used to compensate for structural fragility. Asymmetric wars—including drones, cyberspace, missiles, and weapons of mass destruction—become the language of the coming decade in the region. When chaos settles in, it puts on a helmet and goes to war! The war in Gaza is not an isolated event, but a sign of a new phase

Syria is among the Middle East’s most ethnically and confessionally diverse societies. This pluralism includes Sunni Arabs, Alawites, Kurds, Druze, Christians, Turkmen, Circassians, Syriacs, Assyrians, Yazidis, and others. These groups are unevenly distributed across the national territory and are tied to distinct regional and economic spheres. Diversity, in and of itself, is not an inevitable cause of instability. It becomes a source of chronic conflict, however, when it is

Against the backdrop of the escalating struggle between the United States and China, a fierce battle over money and capital is raging—one in which, instead of blood, billions of dollars are spilled and the global monetary space is transformed into an open arena. On 15 August 1971, President Richard Nixon announced the floating of the dollar and its decoupling from gold, so that its value would be determined on the basis of confidence in the U.S. economy and its dynamism. Huma

The Saudi Initiative on Syria Opens a Project that Embodies a Regional Strategy and Draws New Contours for the Region In recent years, Saudi foreign policy has come to represent a new model for approaching Middle Eastern crises, one that moves beyond the logic of direct interventions and sharp alignments in favor of de-escalation and investment in stability. This orientation reached its peak in what has come to be known as the “Saudi peaceful offensive,” expressed in particul

Washington and Beijing are preparing for a summit to be held in South Korea between Trump and Xi Jinping. The eyes of the world are turned toward what the meeting may yield in results that redraw the contours of the international order, or entrench a long-term struggle between the two largest economic and military powers. This is not merely a negotiation over customs duties or trade provisions; it is a test of deeper balances that touch on regional security, technological heg

With every biased and reckless move into which U.S. strategy in the Middle East slips, Russian diplomacy shows up to fish in American-troubled waters. Over the past decade—following the “Arab Spring” and the failure of American and European approaches to managing the regional scene—the West effectively outsourced to Russia the task of stabilizing the regional balance, starting from Syria. Whether through its deals with Turkey, Syria, or even Israel, Moscow used the “Syrian pl

[Context and Partial Acceptance] Amid mounting Palestinian and Arab pressures, the “Hamas” movement partially accepted Trump’s peace...

In the ongoing debate over how far the modern nation‑state concept applies to Middle Eastern states in U.S. strategy, statements by U.S....

The New York Conference for the Two-State Solution: The Cumulative Harvest of a Tireless Effort Woven by Saudi Diplomacy with Prudence...

As not seen since the 1956 Suez Crisis, the escalating repercussions of more than 150 countries voting to declare recognition of the...

At a pivotal moment reflecting the profound transformations reshaping the international order, Beijing staged a massive military parade...

Preserving Regional and National Peace Requires Complex Diplomacy to Avert the Consequences of Uncertainty and Repercussions The...

A Thousand Peace Pacts Are Easier than the New Cease-Fire with IsraelSamir al-Taqi, Perhaps signing a thousand peace agreements is far easier than signing a new cease-fire agreement with Israel, as is being promoted today. The agreement of May 31, 1974, ended a brief war of attrition that followed the October War between Syria and Israel and established a balanced mechanism for a cease-fire on the Golan. The agreement came backed by monitoring mechanisms and arms limitations,

In her book on the civil war in Syria, The Morning They Came for Us , di Giovanni says, “The savage act does not destroy only the souls...

With his singular genius, Shakespeare embodied in King Lear and Hamlet the features of the turbulent transition from Elizabeth I to the...