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75 days ago

As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall

Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has come

The startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed…

77 days ago

Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine has emboldened Putin and pulled the rug from under Nato allies | Simon Tisdall

The ramifications of the president’s appeasement of Russia will be felt widely, not least in the alliance he recklessly undermined

In Graham Greene’s 1955 novel, The Quiet American, Alden Pyle, a CIA …

83 days ago

Syria’s revolution hangs in the balance. The west must lift sanctions now | Simon Tisdall

Competing interests and rivalries between regional powers threaten hopes of change after the fall of Bashar al-Assad

Previously undisclosed Pentagon plans for withdrawing 2,000 US troops from eastern …

86 days ago

Trump’s Gaza power-trip tells us this: he is just another coward denying the need for a Palestinian state | Simon Tisdall

Benjamin Netanyahu called it ‘ground-breaking’ thinking, but it isn’t. It is idiocy that will make a bad situation worse

  • Simon Tisdall is the Observer’s foreign affairs commentator

It’s easy to mistake…

3 months ago

Donald Trump will huff and he’ll puff, but if Europe’s leaders rise to its defence, their house will stand | Simon Tisdall

The EU is facing a torrid year ahead from enemies both within and without. But it is still far from a lost cause

Europe is in trouble. Multiple, long-simmering external and internal challenges are com…

The Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal hangs by a thread. This is what must happen for peace to last | Simon Tisdall

Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas both have reasons to collapse the agreement. Honest brokers must do all they can to keep it alive

The defiant appearance of heavily armed Hamas fighters during Sunday’s ha…

Who will tame Donald Trump this time? Roll up, roll up, for the White House travelling circus | Simon Tisdall

On the eve of his return, it’s clear that world leaders, whether they like him or loathe him, can’t ignore this unpredictable showman

Michelle Obama’s one-woman boycott of Donald Trump’s presidential …

This Gaza ceasefire deal is tainted by Trump, Netanyahu and their disregard for peace | Simon Tisdall

From these beginnings must come a just and lasting settlement for Palestinians and Israelis alike – and a reckoning

At last! The yearned for Israel-Hamas ceasefire-for-hostages deal is finally happeni…

4 months ago

Menaced by foreign foes, facing mutiny at home: how long before Iran goes nuclear? | Simon Tisdall

After Syria, Israel and the US fear Tehran will build an atomic bomb. Their threats may produce that very outcome

Choices, choices. In life, there’s always a choice, or so that complacent saying goes.…

The world failed to save Syria. Now its people must be free to chart their own path | Simon Tisdall

Self-serving meddling by Israel, Turkey and other foreign powers puts the revolution at risk. They should back off now

United in duplicity, if nothing else, Russia, Iran, Turkey and the US – key exter…

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