Owais Zaheer

Zaheer

Owais Zaheer is a freelance data researcher who has previously written for a variety of publications including Al Jazeera, Muftah, The Friday Times and the Daily Times

The staggering arithmetic of loss, 20 years after 9/11

Opinion: It's impossible to quantify the damage done by two decades of the 'War on Terror', but it's time for the US to finally admit its failures and the limits of its own power, writes Owais Zaheer.

10 September, 2021

What the US misunderstood about Afghanistan

Opinion: US tactics in Afghanistan doomed the intervention to failure from the outset. A new approach is needed, writes Owais Zaheer.

07 September, 2021

Turkey, US sanctions and the looming S-400 showdown

Tensions over Turkey's S-400 missile system have subsided amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the US Congress remains poised to act.

13 May, 2020

How North Korea fuels conflict in the Middle East

Comment: Pyongyang's cooperation with Middle East regimes is a dangerous and destabilising force, writes Owais Zaheer.

28 June, 2019

Sanctions on Assad's regime will only compound Syrian suffering

Comment: Sanctions on the Syrian regime are an incoherent substitute for strategy, writes Owais Zaheer.