The extremely rapid and unexpected fall of Syria’s Assad dictatorship is a political earthquake in the Middle East.

Eleven historic days of popular struggle between President Yoon’s failed self-coup and his impeachment sealed his fate.

Though the balance of forces has shifted in Erdoğan’s favour for the time being, fantasies about a Turkish imperial ...

Iceland’s November 30 elections saw the centre-left Social Democratic Alliance returned as the largest party for the first ...

Amid the significant and rapid transformation unfolding in Syria, two sub-imperial powers, Israel and Turkey, are seeking to ...

President Yoon has shown himself to be an enemy of South Korea’s democracy. But it appears that another candlelight ...

Yoon’s self-coup showed the inherent weakness of South Korea’s institutional democracy. His impeachment demonstrated the ...

Gilbert Achcar has been a major left commentator on international affairs for many years. He grew up in Lebanon and has lived ...

Namibia had her 8th general election. The results of the National Assembly elections held in November 2024 were: South West ...

First published in Arabic at Al-Quds al-Arabi. Translation from Gilbert Achcar's blog.

Joseph Daher discusses the situation after the fall of Bashar al-Assad and the desperate need to return to the original ...

In many ways the November election outcomes should be seen as an early reality check after the denting of the BJP's majority ...