Category: 6. Opinion

In December 2023, former State Department official, Josh Paul told CNN anchor, Christiane Amanpour that during his tenure in the foreign service, he learned of the rape of a 13-year old boy by Israeli officers while in captivity. In…

Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi penned an op-ed for the French outlet Le Monde on Tuesday. The article was a call for a new political and security architecture in the Gulf region, and served as a clear indictment not only for the…

It was not the first time I had watched a video of a mother embracing a human skull, crying and holding it close to her chest as she wept. But it was the hardest video I had ever seen come out of the genocide, perhaps even harder than…

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the administration’s latest brazen attack on international law and the institutions mandated to uphold it.

Declaring “a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the…

News that, in the midst of the genocide in Palestine, the German parliament was this week advancing legislation that would criminalize speech that denies that Israel has a “right to exist,” with penalties of up to five years in prison,…

Another ceasefire that never really took hold has broken down in the Persian Gulf, and the latest turn shows how the war of choice that the United States and Israel launched against Iran has changed.

When the U.S. and Israel first…

On Tuesday, Melat Kiros defeated 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette in Colorado, adding to the list of progressive victories in this year’s Democratic primaries. Kiros won a safe Democratic seat, meaning her primary, like many of the other…

This week, I spent an entire day listening to interviews. Some were phone conversations I had. Others were recordings sent to me by colleagues still reporting from inside Gaza.

I was working on the story of a 23-year-old mother who was

Israel has finally reached an agreement to end its war on Lebanon after ambassadors from both countries signed a “framework” agreement in Washington, D.C., last week that laid out conditions for Israel’s phased withdrawal from…

At a moment when Gaza’s journalists urgently need international protection and the solidarity of journalists and press freedom organizations worldwide—for their courage, their commitment, and their decision to remain in Gaza, sometimes…