James M Dorsey Multiple overt and covert wars have pushed the Middle East to the edge of a cliff. Increased tension between Iran and Israel complicates efforts to pull the Middle East back from the abyss. With the two archenemies walking a fine line betwe...

K Raveendran The formative years of my journalistic career coincided with the ‘super reign’ of legendary editor of Patriot, Edatata Narayanan. Edatata had a unique equation with Jawaharlal Nehru as prime minister: he was a bitter critic of Nehru and yet a...

James M Dorsey The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb. Generations in war-wracked Palestine, Syria, and Yemen have little, if anything, to look forward to. Moreover, discontent is mounting and could explode anytime in countries like Jordan, Egypt,...

James M Dorsey Muhammad Manassara walked in late February into a gas station near the West Bank settlement of Eli. Armed with an automatic weapon, Manassara killed two people before he was shot dead by the owner of a restaurant at the station, the site of...

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury A large number of big pharma companies have been using Ukrainians soil for running research labs while they have used Ukrainians as guinea pigs in developing medicines, that could potentially cause various types of cancer whic...

In the heart of the Middle East, the UAE is not just keeping pace with the global gaming scene – it’s defining it. With Saudi Arabia and Egypt as fellow visionaries, the UAE is at the forefront of Web3 gaming that’s turning heads worldwide. Undoubtedly th...

James M Dorsey Israel’s refusal to lift restrictions on the unfettered entry into Gaza of food, medical supplies, and other desperately needed humanitarian goods, has less to do with a stand-alone starvation policy and more with who controls distribution...

James M Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s walls are caving in. His multiple battles fall into two categories: keeping his increasingly fragile government in place and fighting a war he has already lost in the court of public opinion and p...

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury  Following Joe Biden’s disastrous and humiliating retreat from Afghanistan thus leaving the country into the grips of Taliban jihadists, global terror outfit Al Qaeda is back to its old tricks in Afghan soil. According to medi...

James M Dorsey A just-published Palestinian public opinion survey offers pointers for what a successful transition from the devastating Gaza war to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have to entail. The survey’s pointers take on added s...

Matein Khalid As we go into Fed watch purdah for the FOMC announcement tomorrow, one thing is certain. King Jay and his merry knights of the roundtable in DC will not move on interest rates but what they say about inflation and growth could move the finan...

By Adrian Pickering In an era of rapid technological advancements, organisations are grappling with the challenges of executing AI and machine learning (AI/ML) projects efficiently. As the digital landscape continues to evolve, the need for agility and re...

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury The year 2024 has been marked by a flurry of elections across the globe, each carrying significant weight in shaping the future trajectory of their respective countries and, to some extent, the world at large. Among these pivo...

James M Dorsey This year’s US presidential elections are not the only potential hurdle confronting President Joe Biden’s multi-pronged vision for a Middle East peace once the Gaza war ends. So is Israeli intransigence, the prospect of a long-term insurgen...

James M Dorsey \Failed efforts to achieve a Gaza ceasefire on the eve of Ramadan leave innocent Gazans in the lurch, highlight the gap between Israel and Hamas’ demands in negotiations, and raise the stakes for the United States. At the core of the stalle...