The latter half of the 19th century witnessed the birth of a concept — Ottomanism. At the time, the Ottoman Empire, with its base of power in Turkey, ruled a vast domain stretching from Southeast ...

Indonesia’s schools tell a story of two nations. Across Jakarta and Java, classrooms buzz with potential; in parts of Papua and eastern Indonesia, children struggle to finish elementary education.

A seismic shift is underway in the heart of the Middle East. The region is currently defined by the competition between three formidable powers — Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey. The situation is a kind ...

Washington wants Seoul to write a big check in exchange for lower tariffs. After not getting its way, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested hundreds of Korean workers at ...

Zareena Fatima, 67, an Iraqi woman living near Karbala, set up a temporary makeshift shelter alongside a road close to Karbala. She has been doing this for the last 18 years, aiming to serve Shia ...

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As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...

When the caretaker administration was introduced last September, the government was modeled on a different system than the one intended in the 2004 constitution, but it shared similarities with the ...

Today, Iran is ruled by a theocratic regime. It is easy to blame the mullahs for all of Iran’s ills. However, it is an inconvenient truth that their path to power was paved by the British and the ...

Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...

In 2024, the Sahel region accounted for 51% of the world’s terror-related deaths. Jihadist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS are resurging across the Sahel, exploiting political instability, security ...

Many readers would see Turkey’s condemnation as a simple case of an Islamist regime railing against Western suppression of Islam. Indeed, the government’s statement was full of accusations of ...