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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel
It has been said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was displeased by US President Donald Trump’s dismissal of his National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, as well as President Trump’s stance on Iran and Syria. There is a big difference between the Iranian nuclear file and what I now call the Syrian file, except in Netanyahu’s disturbed mind. So the question becomes: What is the difference between Trump and Netanyahu and the way they think about things?
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1 week ago | 
aawsat.news | Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri
I have been following the rapidly developing events in my beloved Syria over the past four days with a heavy heart, especially concerned by the events unfolding in the south, where my family’s branches stretch across no fewer than ten villages and towns.
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1 week ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Hazem Saghieh |Amir Taheri
I have been following the rapidly developing events in my beloved Syria over the past four days with a heavy heart, especially concerned by the events unfolding in the south, where my family’s roots stretch across no fewer than ten villages and towns.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Ghassan Charbel |Emile Ameen |Hazem Saghieh
It would be reckless, very reckless... to speculate that developments in the Arab region between now and the Arab League summit scheduled for May 17 will follow a logical trajectory! Anything could happen, as there are no guardrails or constraints between us and the abyss.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Emile Ameen |Hazem Saghieh |Mustafa Fahs
Iranian commentators appear to be relaxed about the prospects of the ongoing negotiations with the United States. Some have implied that a honeymoon period is possible with the “Great Satan” if its intentions are sincere. They speak of a mutual need. Iran needs an agreement that would end the cycles of sanctions and accusations, while the American administration needs an achievement of the size of an agreement over Iran’s nuclear deal.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Emile Ameen |Hazem Saghieh |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri
From the moment US President Donald Trump announced his latest tariffs, people across the globe have been speculating about whether his decision would lead to a global economic recession. It seems that some of the world’s leading economic minds worry that, unfortunately, there is a risk of something worse than a simple recession and that the repercussions could spill over into the global arena of politics and security.
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2 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Jebril El-Abidi
If wars and disasters shake ideas and convictions, how has no proposal that goes beyond immediate policy been put forward as this war rages on? The Levant is disintegrating, to say nothing about the exceptional suffering the Israelis are inflicting upon the Palestinians, or its humiliation of Syria and Lebanon and the losses it has inflicted upon them.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ross Douthat |Hazem Saghieh |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra
Pope Francis, who passed to his reward on the morning after Easter at age 88, was a version of the liberal pope that many Catholics had earnestly desired all through the long reign of John Paul II and the shorter one of Benedict XVI — a man whose worldview was shaped and defined by the Second Vatican Council and whose pontificate sought a renewal of its revolution, a further great modernization of the Catholic Church. In one way, at least, he succeeded.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Nadim Koteich |Eyad Abu Shakra |Mamoun Fandy
To say that our history moves slowly is not a great discovery. We have seen, and continue to see, generation after generation living on "causes" that revert back to square one every time a solution that ends the struggle seems possible. This is particularly true of the Palestinian cause and the "vicious attack" on it and us, but it is also true of the Kurdish cause and sectarianism in the Levant and even applies to the conflict in the Western Sahara that dates back to 1975.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Abdulrahman al-Rashed |Mustafa Fahs |Hazem Saghieh
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, leaks about Iran and its nuclear file have not stopped – whether it is what he is saying openly or what is being leaked by his administration or the Israelis or even the Iranian lobby in Washington. The leaks only increased with the second round of negotiations between the Iranians and Americans in Rome on Saturday. Tehran itself, as well as its allies and opponents in the region, have also been behind some leaks.
