Ibn Khaldun asked whether dynasties decline after three generations. Mohammed bin Salman answers in Riyadh, where three failed bets and succession converge.
Browsing: Governance
Disarming Hezbollah requires a political decision the army cannot make alone while Israel occupies the south and UNIFIL withdraws within months.
Israel’s election weighs Netanyahu’s wartime gains against refused accountability for October 7 and haredi exemptions, three years into war.
A six-member committee now shapes Iran’s sensitive decisions, replacing the supreme leader’s personal arbitration with collective approval and hidden accountability.
Syria’s authorities reject sectarian quotas but concentrate power narrowly, leaving minorities outside decision-making while new radicalism threatens stability.
Ali Khamenei’s death decentralized Iran’s regime, leaving Mojtaba hidden while the IRGC and security networks dominate decision-making and regime survival.
Abdallah’s attempt to reclaim intercepted explosives exposes the complex dynamics between Hezbollah’s liaison apparatus and Lebanese security institutions.
Hardline lawmakers target two ministers as Iran’s factions battle over diplomacy, expediency, and the limits of Mojtaba Khamenei’s authority.
Syria’s Druze enclave survives through trafficking and Israeli funds, but isolation and youth anger may soon fracture al-Hijri’s fragile rule.
Washington boasts of a 96 percent cut in Muslim immigration, and that contempt erodes the goodwill propping up a purely transactional Middle East bargain.