Middle East

Gilbert Achcar provides an account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome.

Gilbert Achcar — Trump’s new plan is even less realistic than the one he unveiled five years ago.

Tariq Dana — The booming weapons industry made possible by the Abraham Accords.

Shir Hever — Since its founding, Israel’s market for weapons has developed in tandem with its war objectives.

Behnam Amini — A principled anti-imperialism must centre on working-class political interests, as well as the interests of oppressed and minoritized social groups.

Samirah Jarrar outlines the need to move beyond a humanitarian framework of Palestinian health to envision a politics of care rooted in justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.

Like other conflicts in the Middle East, Iran’s troubled relations with the US and Israel — and with Iranian Kurds — have their roots in imperialism, writes Sarah Glynn.

Nasrin Parvaz discusses the fallout of the recent US-Israeli war on Iran and the Islamic regime’s response.

Joseph Daher — Events in Suweida demonstrate Syria is experiencing a process of establishing a new authoritarian regime.

Joseph Daher — The new authorities are rooting themselves in international alliances while resorting to sectarianism similarly to the old regime.

Araz Bağban — In their desire to push back imperialism, some leftists ignore everything else, including the right of 90 million Iranians to determine their own destiny.

Gilbert Achcar — US imperialism is far from dead. Instead, what we have is a mutation of US imperialism, which began not with Trump, but with Biden and the war in Gaza.