A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world. The need to reform the UNAl-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt, July 12 This year marks the 80th anniversary of the UN, commemorated ...

Iran’s armed proxies are ramping up pressure on key points in the Middle East as Tehran attempts to rebuild its regional ...

Violence between government forces and armed factions of a religious minority in southern Syria this week has deepened ...

Syria's government misread how Israel would respond to its troops deploying to the country's south this week, encouraged by U ...

Changes in Japan’s political environment make immigration a challenging issue for Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party in ...

Once again, images of horrifying violence are pouring out of Syria: dead bodies piled up in a hospital corridor. Gunmen ...

Clashes that shook southern Syria this week have killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drawn in an array of ...

IRBIL, Iraq — (AP) — A Kurdish militant group that has waged a long-running insurgency in Turkey announced Thursday its fighters in northern Iraq will begin handing over their weapons, marking ...

A Kurdish militant group has announced plans to start disarming as part of a peace process with Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, says its fighters in northern Iraq will begin ...

Iranian Kurdish dissidents abroad watch for signs of Tehran’s vulnerability As a fragile ceasefire with Israel holds, some wonder how much the war has weakened Iran’s clerical rule but fear ...