Jane Bradley, BuzzFeed
The mother of the "kind and softly spoken" Londoner outed as a member of Jihadi John's "Beatles" execution cell tells BuzzFeed News how she lost both her "perfect" son...
Michael Knights, War on the Rocks
The conflict in Yemen cannot fairly be described as a singular war. The main war is being fought between a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states who back the
Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor
With Recep Tayyip Erdogan closer than ever to total authority, the world is going to have to deal with an increasingly confrontational Turkish president.
Aryeh Neier, Project Syndicate
The announcement that US President Barack Obama's visit to Japan later this month will include a stop in Hiroshima is welcome news. While Obama will not apologize for America's 1945 nuclear attack, the visit will inevitably spur reflection and debate about what happened there.
Amotz Asa-El, Jerusalem Post
Despite a brief exception this week, President Sissi's policy of diplomatic introversion is not about to change.
Michael Weiss, The Daily Beast
Is Muqtada al-Sadr, whose followers again stormed the Green Zone Friday, an Iraqi nationalist or a crooked machiavellian?
Ed West, The Spectator
Austria's result shows what happens when workers feel abandoned by the parties that traditionally used to represent them. Will the last working-class centre-left voter in Europe switch off the light?
William Egginton, New York Times
What if Europeans, because of their well-intended concern for maintaining the principle of tolerance, are becoming entangled in a paradox similar to the one Fish identified? What if, in other words, a too-strident insistence on tolerance can produce a less tolerant society? A balance needs to be struck, but European attempts to restrict what Europeans see as expressions of religious illiberalism â from bans on veils in French schools to permitting a schoolteacher... Читать дальше...
Smadar Bat Adam, Israel Hayom
The Netanyahu-Lieberman coalition deal has yet to be officially signed and already doomsday prophets are fanning the flames. After all -- old habits die hard.Ã
Ronen Bergman, New York Times
TEL AVIV â IN most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies. Inà Israel, the opposite is happening. Here, politicians blatantly trample the state's values and laws and seek belligerent solutions, while the chiefs of the Israel Defense Forces and the heads of the intelligence agencies try to calm and restrain them.
Jonathan Cook, The National
The growing clout of religious nationalists means there is no hope for an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Frederic Bobin, Worldcrunch
Ennahda's founder Rached Ghannouchi calls for an end to "political Islam," a groundbreaking shift for a key Tunisian leader and intellectual long identified as Islamist.
Andi Thomas, Foreign Policy
Breaking transfer records is one thing. Fielding a quality team is another.
Jake Warga, Global Post
Moroccan locales have served as stand-ins for many movies actually set in other Arab countries. Some in Morocco would like their country to play itself.
Serge Halimi, Le Monde Diplomatique
The French demonstrators in the Nuit Debout movement (Up All Night) hope that a convergence of struggles will enable them to extend their appeal beyond the young and university-educated, and become part of an international dynamic. One of their campaign issues â the rejection of free trade treatiesà (1) â may help those objectives.
Clive Irving, D. Beast
Whatever triggered a meltdown of the Airbus's flight controls could also have brought instant death in the cockpit.
Boris Johnson, Telegraph
Thanks to an unexpected wormhole in the space-time continuum, I have come across the following passage from a historical textbook a few decades hence. It is a chapter called âÂÂBrexitâÂÂâ¦
David George, The Conversation
Everyone knows that Britain's conclusive victory over Napoleon was at Waterloo. The story of that day â the squares of infantry repulsing cavalry charges, the Imperial Guard retreating under murderous musket fire delivered by a red line of soliders, the just-in-time arrival of Field Marshal Blücher's Prussian army â is one of excitement, horror and heroism. However, Britain's biggest contribution to Napoleon's defeat was much less romantic. It involved the firstà randomised controlled trial.
Vijai Maheshwari, Politico EU
Ukraine borders four EU countries but an iron curtain still separates it from the West.
Economist
One of Europe's most steadfastly dull countries has suddenly turned interesting.
Joel Hirst
Venezuela is slowly, and very publically, dying; an act that has spanned more than fifteen years. To watch a country kill itself is not something that happens often. In ignorance, one presumes it would be fast and brutal and striking â like the Rwandan genocide or Vesuvius covering Pompeii. You expect to see bodies of mothers clutching protectively their young; carbonized by the force or preserved on the glossy side of pictures. But those aren't the occasions that promote national suicide. Читать дальше...
