Middle East & Africa
Emerging Implications of Raisi’s Victory in Iran
In Iran’s recently concluded presidential election, its clerical political system led by its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ensured the victory of a...
US-Iran relations and South Asia’s geopolitics
In the coming months, US-Iran relations will be watched closely in South Asia (the region’s geopolitical landscape will be significantly impacted as it is...
Implications of Sisi’s congratulatory speech on the centenary of the Communist Party of China
The most important thing that stopped me in the speech of President (El-Sisi), during the presentation of his speech concerning the circumstances of the...
American Promises Put Kurds into Corner
Over a period of the Syrian conflict the U.S. used all possible methods to overthrow the unwanted Assad’s government. At the very beginning Washington...
Bangladesh’s Debt Relief to Sudan: The Perfect Example of Fidus Achates
Bangladesh has pledged to provide 5.32 million SDR (Special Drawing Rights) equivalent to BDT 65 crore to the African country Sudan as debt relief....
Abkhazia- Syria relations: Towards a Domino Effect with Belarus and North Korea?
Following Syria’s diplomatic recognition of Abkhazia in 2018, Abkhazia opened its embassy in Damascus in October 2020, attesting to the strengthening of relations between...
Maneuvering Jerusalem’s future: Upcoming DC visit puts wind in Jordanian monarch’s sails
US President Joe Biden may have little appetite for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking but seems determined to prevent some third parties from exploiting the regional stalemate...
Central African Republic entrenched in ‘unprecedented humanitarian crisis’
Defense forces, soldiers from nearby countries and other security personnel have been fighting an “asymmetric war” against armed groups, sparking an “unprecedented humanitarian crisis”, the top UN official in the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Mankeur Ndiaye, CAR Special Representative and Head of the UN Multidimensional...
Tracking the second Russia-Africa Summit
On June 23, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held diplomatic talks with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of...
Forging a future with rather than against Iran
The rise of hardline President-elect Ebrahim Raisi has prompted some analysts to counterintuitively suggest that it could pave the way for reduced regional tensions...