Middle East & Africa
Israel-Iran tension on the rise
Scaring scenario is developing in the Middle East. Senior Israeli defense officials say the country is preparing for the possibility of an armed conflict...
Whither Muslim solidarity and moderation?
Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki AlFaisal Al Saud must have gotten his tenses mixed up when he asserted in a recently published memoir...
UNSC NO 2602: Shed lights on a final settlement to Moroccan Sahara
Since the cessation of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Algeria, it has lasted for more than months. The Algerian regime, along with the Polisario...
Ethiopia: Future of Tigray and Horn of Africa ‘in grave uncertainty’
A year-long conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has reached “disastrous proportions”, the UN political chief told the Security Council on Monday, warning...
End war now before it’s too late for Ethiopians
All parties involved in the escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray must stop fighting immediately, or else risk pushing the region’s catastrophic humanitarian situation “over...
Ten years of war in Syria and the current situation: Russia and China
In Syria, after the decade-long and still unfinished war, the energy shortage resulting from the loss of control over the main oil fields in...
Sudan and the UAE: Pulling Sudanese strings
Sudan is the exception to the rule in the United Arab Emirates’ counterrevolutionary playbook.
In contrast to Egypt or Yemen, where it went out of...
France and Africa: Towards a New Model of Relations?
In recent decades, French foreign policy in Africa has been preoccupied with a jump-start of relations with the African nations, marked by a gradual...
Religious ultra-conservatism has a field day in Pakistan. It puts Saudi Arabia on the Spot
Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism is having a field day.
Barely three months after the Taliban claimed victory in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the second most populous Muslim-majority state,...
Ten years of war in Syria and the current situation (I)
I will focus on Syria in several articles, considering the importance the country has had in international relations for centuries.
Ten years ago, a civil...