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4 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Nadim Koteich |Choe Sang-Hun |Eyad Abu Shakra
Doctors and analysts agree that delirium is a sudden change in the brain function that leads to disturbance and mental confusion. It often results from a transformation the body is subjected to; it could be surgery or withdrawal that follows long-term alcohol abuse. One of the more acute symptoms of delirium is inattention and reduced awareness of one’s surroundings; the delirious can sometimes forget who he is, where he is, and what he is doing there.
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4 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Nadim Koteich |Choe Sang-Hun |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa
The recent spike in leaked intelligence assessments warning that the Israeli military could strike Iran’s nuclear facilities should the ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran fall through, is redrawing the red lines around what Israel considers an “existential threat” amid sweeping regional and international shifts. Talk of an “imminent strike” is not limited to speculation in the media any longer, and it is not another round of the war of words between the two sides.
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4 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Choe Sang-Hun |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel
If the front-runner for the presidential election on Tuesday wins, South Korea is likely to enter a major course correction in its diplomacy to improve ties with North Korea and China. South Korea’s relations with North Korea and China became increasingly strained under former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was expelled from office in April following his short-lived imposition of martial law.
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5 days ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Choe Sang-Hun |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel
By general consensus, if the policies of President Trump’s first administration were a compromise between his impulses and the doctrines of the pre-Trump Republican Party, then Trump 2.0 is Trumpism in full. The old order is dissolved, the Bush and Reagan Republicans are exiled or subjugated, and Trump alone sets the agenda for the G.O.P.There are clearly areas where this is true.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Fayez Sara |Tariq Al-Homayed |Hanna Tetteh |Eyad Abu Shakra
The sanctions imposed by the United States on the Bashar al-Assad regime have been top of Syrians’ minds in the past five months since following the regime’s swift collapse in December 2024. The expectation had been that these sanctions would be lifted after the regime they had targeted was toppled.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Hanna Tetteh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei claims that Washington’s demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium are "excessive and outrageous," accusing the US of demonstrating "sheer arrogance.I don't think nuclear talks with the US will bring results. I don't know what will happen," Khamenei added. He has demanded that they refrain from making outrageous demands ahead of their fifth round of negotiations.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hanna Tetteh |Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel
Recent events in Libya have once again laid bare security and other actors’ persistent failure to uphold international humanitarian and human rights law and underlines the urgent need to break cycles of violence and impunity. The blatant disregard for fundamental human rights is not only a moral and legal outrage – it is a primary driver of Libya’s enduring cycles of instability and conflict.
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2 weeks ago | 
arabnews.com | Eyad Abu Shakra
From the ‘past’ of summits to the economy of ‘state builders’ Short Urlhttps://arab.news/g5h44 Let us forget, for a moment, that the president of the US is the most powerful political leader in the world and that he can annihilate humanity at the press of a button or obliterate the global economy with an executive order.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
President Donald Trump’s visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last week exceeded expectations, putting Saudi-American relations on a new trajectory. A series of major agreements were signed, reflecting the extraordinary alignment of the two nations’ interests and reaffirming the Kingdom’s status as a regional leader.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Sam Menassa |Ghassan Charbel |Abdulrahman al-Rashed
Let us forget, for a moment, that the president of the United States is the most powerful political leader in the world, and that he can annihilate humanity at the press of a button or obliterate the global economy with an “executive order.”For a moment, let us put that to one side and focus, instead, on two undeniable truths that we must address as Arabs during these extraordinary times in our contemporary history.
