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Faisal Al Yafai

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Senator Elizabeth Warren in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. Daniel Acker / Bloomberg
Could Elizabeth Warren be the challenger to beat Donald Trump in 2020?

There is a danger the candidate that has Democrats talking is too similar to her predecessors

CommentJanuary 09, 2019
A poster of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the city of Constantine, Algeria. Lindsay Mackenzie for The National
Across the Middle East, new political paradigms are being shaped

In 2019, elections in Algeria, Israel and Tunisia offer opportunities for pivotal change

CommentJanuary 01, 2019
Syrian Kurds marching in Afrin, northern Syria, march in support of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. AFP
Abandoned by the US, there are unpalatable choices in every direction for the Syrian Kurds

What political aspirations of autonomy they can extract will depend in significant part on what Ankara will allow – a dire turnaround for the Kurds, who pinned hopes on autonomy

CommentDecember 25, 2018
Indonesian president Joko Widodo's every move has been scrutinised through the prism of next year's election. Antara Foto
The Indonesian president's overtures to religious conservatives may not be all they seem

Amid a rising national tendency towards mixing faith and politics, Joko Widodo has chosen a well-known cleric to stand for election alongside him

CommentDecember 18, 2018
Mohamed Bouazizi's death ushered in a new era in Tunisian politics
Tunisia's road beyond revolution has been rocky but it might just weather this political storm

The nation's institutions are functioning as a result of hard choices, both good and bad, made by people with real power

CommentDecember 11, 2018
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a trade truce outside the parameters of the G20 summit / Kevin Lamarque
Summits like the G20 increasingly look like the vast folly of a pampered elite

Multilateralism is in crisis with the leaders of three of the most powerful countries in the world undermining its principles

CommentDecember 04, 2018
Indian police officers pay their respects at a memorial to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks. Reuters
Bringing the Mumbai attackers to justice could help Pakistan mend its frayed relationship with India

A decade on, none of the perpetrators of the attacks that killed 166 people have been brought to trial

CommentNovember 27, 2018
Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte and UN special envoy for Libya Ghassan Salame, in Palermo. AFP
Europe’s divisive politics play out in the drive for peace in Libya

The competing desires of France and Italy to unify this embattled nation are fuelled by deep rivalries and two very different visions of what Europe should be

CommentNovember 20, 2018
A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces in Raqqa after retaking the city from ISIS in October 2017. AFP
Trapped between Turkey and the regime, Syria's Kurds now squeezed by the US

Previously the Kurds' closest ally, America has recently made significant concessions to Ankara, which may betray its long-term strategy

CommentNovember 13, 2018
A wall of Mexican Federal Police await a new group of Central American migrants wading across the Suchiate River, that connects Guatemala and Mexico. AP/Santiago Billy
The migrant caravan is a matter of community, not security

Narratives about displaced people are too often based on the threat they pose to national stability. It would be better to consider what we can do to help

CommentNovember 06, 2018
A fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces attends the funeral of a commander. Delil Souleiman / AFP
The idea of a new Syrian constitution is a diplomatic fig leaf

Western powers have been completely outmanoeuvred by Russia and the Assad regime, which will never allow the opposition to have a real voice

CommentOctober 30, 2018
Iranian Revolutionary Guard missiles fired from western Iran into Syria. AP
Iran’s insidious infiltration of Syria will be impossible for the US to disentangle

The US has vowed not to pull out of the conflict until the last Iranian soldier goes home – but that could be trickier than it appears

CommentOctober 24, 2018
New Hayat Tahrir Al Sham fighters training for battle / AFP
The deal on Idlib merely delayed a reckoning with militant groups in Syria

The clock is ticking on an all-out assault on the province, with Hayat Tahrir Al Sham's refusal to comply with the deal bringing fears of an attack costing thousands of lives

CommentOctober 16, 2018
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and wife Emine attend the inauguration of a new mosque in Cologne, Germany. AP
At home and away, Erdogan can't escape his problems

Still, the Turkish president has one talking point that's sure to win him friends overseas

CommentOctober 09, 2018
Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Walid Al Mualem addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Craig Ruttle/AP
A speech that buried all hope for Syria

Walid Al Muallem's words to the UN were defiant, confrontational and exactly what we should expect from the Assad regime

CommentOctober 02, 2018
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