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3 weeks ago | 
aawsat.news | Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Yesterday, in Jeddah, Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers Murhaf Abu Qusra and Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between Lebanon and Syria. In truth, neither the new Syrian government nor the current Lebanese authorities contributed to these issues, which were inherited from the birth of the current Syrian and Lebanese territories during the French Mandate period and on the ruins of former Ottoman provinces and states.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Eyad Abu Shakra |Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Yesterday, in Jeddah, Syrian and Lebanese defense ministers Murhaf Abu Qusra and Michel Menassa signed a promising agreement to end lingering border issues between Lebanon and Syria. In truth, neither the new Syrian government nor the current Lebanese authorities contributed to these issues, which were inherited from the birth of the current Syrian and Lebanese territories during the French Mandate period and on the ruins of former Ottoman provinces and states.
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Mustafa Fahs |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh
This headline alludes to works of literature to illustrate political realities, beginning with Ernest Hemingway's “A Farewell to Arms” and up to the Kurdish author Ronak Murad's famous novel about the history of the Kurdish struggle “The Granddaughter of Ishtar.” The two novels' plots tie the themes of love, war, and their aftermath together- stretching from the Italian frontlines and the horrors of World War I to Rojava, the Qandil Mountains, Kunduz, and the vast Kurdish territories that...
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3 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Yousef Al-Dayni
“Why is Donald Trump doing what he is doing?” This is the question raised by European intelligentsia these days as they try to recover from the shock of the American presidential election which they all believed would be won by the Democrat champion Kamala Harris. France’s currently fashionable TV philosopher Michel Onfray raises the question in a number of programs as do op-ed writers in newspapers in London, Brussels and Berlin and Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis.
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4 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Yousef Al-Dayni |David Sanger |Julian Barnes
The liberation of Khartoum and expulsion of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was a decisive and game-changing victory for the Sudanese army. It changed the course of the war, as key symbols of sovereignty, the Republican Palace, cabinet headquarters, and the country’s most significant institutions under state control.
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4 weeks ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Yousef Al-Dayni |David Sanger
During and after the crimes on the Syrian coast, two voices were raised. One was the voice of the people (yes, the people- without quotation marks), and it broke into several sharp sectarian voices, each defaming the other. The second, the voice that concerns us here, was that of the elite, some of whom directed their ire at colonialism and accused it of manufacturing sectarianism. Colonialism, of course, was not innocent, and defending the roles it played is not the goal here.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Tariq Al-Homayed |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Anyone in Beirut observing the developments unfolding in Syria will be gripped by fear. It is very dangerous to try to turn back the hands of time. The collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime was a major shock that surprised his allies and opponents alike. In Syria, some refuse to believe that the time of the regime is over. Outside Syria, some refuse to recognize that Syria has chosen its fate and are insisting on pursuing a path that would lead it back to bloodshed.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh
The criminal military attacks seen in Syrian coastal regions last Thursday cannot be attributed to the remnants of the Assad regime alone. These men who did not fight when the criminal Assad had been in the Presidential Palace in Damascus would not fight now, with Bashar in Moscow. We cannot claim that the operations had been planned internally by separatists, as there is no real popular support for such plans in coastal areas.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed
“The US has reversed its alliances to side with Russia against Europe!” This is the idea that many commentators in Britain, France and Germany have been hammering in for the past few days. The Washington Post went even further: “For Europe, this is a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency moment.
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1 month ago | 
english.aawsat.com | Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nadim Koteich
Without any of the rapture seen when the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and a number of political and civil society groups signed the “Sudan Founding Charter” in Nairobi last month, it was announced that the signatories had agreed to a transitional constitution that document adopts secularism, calls for the formation of a new army composed of RSF forces, and dividing the country into eight regions, some of which are granted the right to self-determination in certain cases.
