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Sep 20, 2026, 4:31 PM

Houthis’ Threats and Pakistan’s Resolve

The recent threats from Yemen's Houthi movement towards Pakistan and Türkiye are hard to misinterpret. When Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a key figure in Ansar Allah, warned that Pakistan would face an “iron fist” if it intervened on behalf of Saudi...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Mahdi Ismail Abokor

Sep 16, 2026, 5:16 AM

Somaliland’s Washington Moment: A Nation Ready to Be a Strategic Partner

Somaliland's Washington Moment: A Nation Ready to Be a Strategic Partner Somaliland's diplomatic journey has entered a new and consequential phase. On September 14, President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi "Irro" stood before the Hudson Institute in Washington and made a...

Sep 15, 2026, 9:11 PM

Washington’s Syria referee has a conflict

A deconfliction cell requires both sides to believe the operator does not care which of them is right. Illustrative image. (Mitzpe Institute)

Tom Barrack is building the mechanism meant to keep Israeli and Turkish aircraft from shooting at each other over Syria — a standing deconfliction cell, staffed around the clock in Hebrew, Arabic, English and Turkish. He is also the...

Nestor Daniel Scherman

Sep 14, 2026, 7:28 PM

When the facts are true, but the story may not be

During a stay in Turkey, I found myself doing something I normally don’t do when I travel: watching quite a lot of local television. Not because I understood Turkish. Quite the opposite. Whenever a news item caught my attention, I...

Sep 14, 2026, 7:02 PM

The Arab Revolt and the End of the Ottoman Middle East

Two Betrayals, One Collapse: The Arab Revolt and the End of the Ottoman Middle East Few episodes in the modern Middle East carry as much emotional weight as the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. In Turkish memory, it is often framed...

Purna Lal Chakma

Sep 12, 2026, 11:29 AM

Could Saudi Arabia Collapse and Would Islamists Fill the Vacuum?

$Saudi Arabia under growing regional pressure, with the empty throne symbolizing the question of who could fill the vacuum if the monarchy ever fractured. AI-created by the author.$

Could Saudi Arabia collapse? At the moment, the answer appears to be no. The kingdom still has enormous financial resources, powerful security institutions, substantial oil wealth and a ruling family that retains firm control of the state. But history suggests...

Donna Robinson Divine

Sep 9, 2026, 3:00 PM

9/11: Beware of faulty connections

This frame grab taken from AFPTV video footage on September 9, 2026, shows a member of the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces firing a heavy machine gun during clashes with Houthi fighters in the Al-Kadha area, west of Taiz province, on September 8, 2026. (AFPTV/AFP)

Passionate slogans and righteous emotions won't stamp out barbarism. That will take global cooperation and serious policymaking

Sep 9, 2026, 4:18 AM

Israel Owns the Factory. It Still Does Not Own the Next Interceptor.

Israel can own the factory and still wait for the next interceptor. Shay Gal, former IAI Vice President and Chief of Staff to its Chairman, sets the industrial sovereignty test exposed by the second Iran war: inventory, production capacity...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 8, 2026, 1:38 PM

Israel Must Fight Turkey’s Maritime Aggression Now

Ankara’s revisionist foreign policy thrives on uncontested space, fed by a Western complacency that consistently ignores Turkish expansionism. This aggressive posture materialized in November 2019, when Turkey signed a maritime memorandum with Tripoli’s authorities, carving out a corridor across...

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