Sukru Kucuksahin, Al-Monitor
Meral Aksener, a rare female heavyweight in Turkish politics, may be the long-awaited leader to thwart Erdogan's authoritarian ambitions.
Rori Donaghy, The Independent
Last week,à Defence Secretary Michael Fallon tried to put to bed questions about whether Britain is planning to deploy the Army to Libya, where,à just 200 miles from Europe,à Isisà has flourished amid a permanent state of chaos after theà 2011 Nato-backed overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
Tim Arango, NY Times
The United States has thousands of military personnel in Iraq and has trained Iraqi security forces for nearly two years, yet is largely on the sidelines in the battle to retake Falluja. It says its air and artillery strikes have killed dozens of Islamic State fighters, including the group's Falluja commander. But it worries that an assault on the city could backfire â inflaming the same sectarian sentiments that have allowed the Islamic State to flourish there.
John Hudson, FP
Riyadh's air war in Yemen has killed and injured hundreds of civilians. Washington is finally trying to stem the carnage.
Reuel Marc Gerecht & Ray Takeyh, Wash Post
Tehran exploits anti-Semitism in a war for Muslim minds.
Trevor Hambayi, Quartz
Sub-Saharan African countries seem to carry a vicious circle of problems revolving around underdeveloped economies.
Alex Gorlach, Huffington Post
Throughout the Western world, sympathies for right-wing strongmen are gaining strength. In the U.S., Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are tied in the polls. In Austria, it came to a showdown between the Green candidate Alexander van der Bellen and the right-wing nationalist Norbert Hofer. These societies are split 50-50, right down the middle.
Charles Krauthammer, National Post
Obama's visit to Vietnam was a belated acquiescence to realpolitik, laying the foundations for a new approach essential in addressing the coming challenge of containing China.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Boston Review
In the name of anti-corruption, Brazil has installed an interim president barred from running for office because of illegal campaign contributions.
Ian Bremmer, Time
Until the country has a government that can build a sustainable economic system, its misery will only deepen.
David French, National Review
Americans have short memories, and to the extent they think about World War II, they tend to think of Hitler and the Holocaust â and justifiably so. His attempt to exterminate an entire race of people was among the worst crimes in world history. But in remembering Hitler, we cannot forget Japan. It killed an estimated 14 million Chinese citizens in its invasion of China. And during the course of that invasion, its forces acted much like Hitler's SS, conducting mass-scale rapes... Читать дальше...
Denis Dyomkin, Reuters
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned Romania and Poland they could find themselves in the sights of Russian rockets because they are hosting elements of a U.S. missile shield that Moscow considers a threat to its security.
Yaroslav Trofimov, Wall Street Journal
Vladimir Putin's intervention in Syria caught many by surprise, but it is a return to Russian geopolitical aspirations that stretch back to the czars.
