Opinion: Coming out should always be a personal choice, but as AI gets better at connecting the dots, protecting that choice becomes more complicated

Even if tensions around the Strait of Hormuz ease, the crisis highlights a lasting shift: Africa is no longer a marginal player in global energy, but an increasingly central source of oil, gas and strategic trade routes

Opinion: The vacuum left by UNIFIL could be filled by a new regional stability mechanism born from the same 'de-escalation cell' now emerging in talks involving the United States, Iran, Qatar and Pakistan

Opinion: Instead of paralyzing Israel militarily, Iran has paralyzed it diplomatically, using the emerging US-Iran ceasefire framework to preserve its regional threat while limiting Jerusalem’s room to act

Opinion: Doha’s role as mediator is also its shield, letting it host the US military, Hamas and regional back channels while making itself too useful for Washington or its rivals to seriously punish or remove from the equation

Opinion: Iran deal may ease tensions, but it does not remove the need for IMEC, a secure East-West trade corridor that would turn Israel into a key global supply-chain hub