Middle East & Africa
Russia and Iran in Syria: A Competitive Partnership?
Authors: Igor Matveev and Yeghia Tashjian*
Russia’s ongoing special military operation in Ukraine has sparked broad and intensive debates about future modalities of the relations...
South Africa’s Storms and Good Hope
Recent days have seen Cape Town once again pummelled by heavy storms, high rainfall, severe winds and tumultuous seas giving credence to the title...
Libya Interregnum
For the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), late 2021 was supposed to herald the end of Libya’s domestic political chaos. The presidential election...
The Pakistani Solution to the Nuclear Dispute with Iran
After turning off the cameras of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Iran has announced that it has the capability to build nuclear weapons. The news...
The Angolan Factor in China’s Relations with Africa
Background of resource-rich Angola:
Falling into the category of ‘richest poor countries’, Angola, located on the Western Atlantic Coast of Southern Africa is home to...
Al-Shabab’s Enigmatic Invasion of Ethiopia
In countries such as the U.S., there is an unwritten theory in police investigation that assumes whenever a neighborhood robbery occurs it was done...
Russia’s Approach to Cross-Border Aid Delivery to Syria
Humanitarian crisis in Syria is among the most severe in the world, and there is little hope that the situation will improve given that...
Lebanon: At ‘a crossroad between rebound or collapse’
The dire impact of Lebanon’s unrelenting socio-economic crisis prompted the UN Special Coordinator to warn the Security Council behind closed doors on Thursday, that...
The first Russian rail transit passing Iran and its message for U.S.
The first rail cargo left Moscow railway station into India on 27th June as a significant message from Moscow to the West in spite...
Sergey Lavrov’s Working Visit to Africa
On the eve of his four-nation African tour from July 24 to 28, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, shared reflections on the prospects for Russia-African...