The guns have fallen silent along the Line of Control (LoC) between Pakistani- and Indian-administered Kashmir. A fragile ceasefire is in place, but this calm is unlikely to last. Pakistan has a long ...

During his speech at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, Trump reengaged with Middle Eastern leaders and revived the Abraham Accords. His focus on trade-based incentives signals a broader shift toward ...

No nation has more immigrants than America. As foreign students and scholars at Harvard and other academic institutions learn that their visas may be revoked, I find it hard to sit still as a US ...

The historic victory of Romania’s president-elect, the pro-European centrist Nicușor Dan, shows the limits of the MAGA (Make America Great Again) project in Eastern Europe. His opponent, right-wing ...

It was the fall of 2024. The leaves were doing their autumn thing — burnished reds, crisp yellows — perfect for a drive into Pennsylvania. Shortly after crossing the New Jersey state line, the scenery ...

This piece examines the fragile security situation in Syria following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), highlighting ongoing extremist threats despite HTS’s attempts at political ...

US President Donald Trump was not alone in seeing in Elias Rodriguez’s crime a far bigger problem than the genocide the perpetrator denounced in his manifesto. On the morning following these murders, ...

In his resignation letter, the former Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Cameroon and one of the key architects of the 1961 federal union, John Ngu Foncha, exclaimed: “The Anglophone ...

In the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, political scientists Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argued that during the early months of President Donald Trump’s new administration, the United States ...

The credibility of elite universities has fallen far, and not without reason. For decades, admissions offices singled out Asian-American applicants for unfairly high admissions standards while ...

The international concerns about Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the repression of women’s rights, especially after Mahsa Amini's death, are profound. Nuclear weapons development could worsen the ...

[Usama Malik wrote this article before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Although it does not reflect post-election events, Fair Observer believes the analysis remains insightful and relevant.] The ...