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  1. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · by Kurniawan Arif Maspul

    How the Mecca pact turns faith into security (opens the original)

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    A view of billboards featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif and Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir displayed along a road in Islamabad, Pakistan, on August 09, 2026. [Muhammad Reza – Anadolu Agency] In the sweltering heat of an August afternoon, beneath the shadow of the Kaaba, three nations signed a document that may well redefine the political theology of

  2. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · by Kurniawan Arif Maspul

    When Washington buried a war maker (opens the original)

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    U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President of the United States JD Vance (R) meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at White House in Washington DC, United States on July 28, 2026. [Ma’ayan Toaf (GPO)/Handout – Anadolu Agency] Today, as the flags fly at half-staff over the United States Capitol, Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the pews of Washington’s National Cathedral, paying his respects to the late Senator Lindsey Graham. The irony is as suffocating as the incense: the man who spent d

  3. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · by Kurniawan Arif Maspul

    The UN returns to Damascus at the edge of reconstruction (opens the original)

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    United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a joint press conference with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani following their meeting as part of his official visit to Damascus, Syria, on July 25, 2026. [Hişam Hac Ömer – Anadolu Agency] Seventeen years. That is how long it has been since a sitting United Nations Secretary-General last set foot in Damascus. When António Guterres’ plane touches down on Syrian soil, it will not be a ceremonial gesture. It is the dipl

  4. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · by Kurniawan Arif Maspul

    Riyadh’s energy horizon and the dawn of a more equal future (opens the original)

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    The Saudi Arabia national flag [Chris McGrath/Getty Images] There are moments in international affairs when the tectonic plates of the global order grind against each other, and the resulting tremor is felt not only in chancelleries but in the very architecture of power that has defined the post-war world. The signing of the US-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement—a thirty-year framework that could place uranium enrichment capability in the hands of an Arab nation for the first time—is precisely

  5. Article · Jul 21, 2026 · by Kurniawan Arif Maspul

    Bab el-Mandeb and the coming age of chokepoint warfare (opens the original)

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    The waters of the Bab el-Mandeb are running red with the blood of a failing international order. For the first time in modern history, two of the world’s most vital maritime chokepoints—the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el-Mandeb—are under simultaneous, sustained assault. This is not merely a crisis; this is the unravelling of the post-war maritime consensus, and the world is watching with paralysis as a new form of warfare exposes the hollow core of our strategic doctrines. Consider the mathemat

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