Syria will deploy thousands of troops to Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where some are already stationed, to support the Yemeni government and its Saudi ally against the Iran-backed Houthis,…
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IMLebanon: Paula Astih wrote in “Asharq Al-Awsat”: The visit to Lebanon this week by Bilal Erdoğan, the son of the Turkish president, and the official meetings he held, as well as the warm welcome he received in the north of the country despite holding no official position, raised new questions about Turkey’s expected role in…
IMLebanon: Saad Elias wrote in “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem’s appearance this week was not merely an escalatory stance amid the domestic debate; rather, it seemed like a clear declaration that the party would refuse to enter any political process leading to the exclusive possession of weapons by the state, or requiring it to deal with…
Nidaa Al Watan: Society pays the price for its illusions in different ways. The cost of economic illusion is evident in eroding incomes and lost savings, while social illusion appears when families are left to provide on their own what institutions cannot secure. Perhaps the hardest is cognitive illusion: society’s misunderstanding of the causes of what has befallen it, leading it to repeat…
