Akbar Ahmed

Nov 4, 2024 | huffpost.com | Chris D'Angelo |Akbar Ahmed

TAIPEI, Taiwan — For years, Taiwan has enjoyed solid bipartisan support in Washington — a consensus that has only strengthened as China has increasingly threatened the self-governing island, which it claims as its own territory and has promised to “reunify” with the mainland.

Nov 4, 2024 | huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed

When Donald Trump was president, he constantly found new ways to boost global tension. He fast-tracked bombs to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) as they massacred civilians in Yemen, repeatedly risked nuclear war with North Korea, escalated U.S. conflict with Iran, inched toward regime change in Venezuela, appointed officials who heightened tensions in the Balkans and Israel-Palestine, and turbo-charged U.S. military spending.

Oct 9, 2024 | huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed

One family’s story offers a snapshot of the devastating impact of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack inside Israel — and the agonizing personal toll that choices by Hamas, Israel and the U.S. have taken in the year since. Members of the Palestinian militant group overran Kibbutz Be’eri that day, ravaging the town, killing more than 100 of the community’s 1,100 residents, including children, and kidnapping hostages to take back to the Gaza Strip.

Oct 5, 2024 | huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed

THE HAGUE/BERLIN/PARIS/WASHINGTON — In The Hague, a serious young Dutch bureaucrat works on policies that are supposed to deter violations of human rights, from Myanmar’s crackdown on its ethnic minorities to Russians directing slaughter in Ukraine. But she’s worried: If those efforts seem hypocritical or selective, they could have little impact. Her government claims it wants to promote international law everywhere.

Sep 30, 2024 | huffpost.com | Akbar Ahmed

Israel has told the U.S. it is planning ground operations inside Lebanon, State Department spokesperson Matt Miller told reporters on Monday. Miller cast the Israeli incursion as short of an invasion, saying the U.S. believes it will be “limited” and focused on infrastructure belonging to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.