Middle East & Africa
Iran regime’s Parliamentary elections and challenges facing it
Forty-one years have
passed since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now the
regime is entrenched in crises and facing a deadlock.
On the...
Violence in North and West Africa increasingly targeting civilian and border areas
Violence
in North and West Africa is increasingly targeting civilian and border regions
as today’s conflicts involve non-state actors with diverging agendas, according
to a new report...
Growing Political Instability in Middle East: A Case Study of Yemen
Yemen’s full-blown war was the consequence of a series of events
that succeeded one after the other. Violence escalated during the second half
of 2014, when...
Thwarting Iranian Influence is Key to Iraq’s Security
The
mass uprisings in Iraq over the past several months have many factors in
common, the most salient of which include ordinary citizens
decrying economic hardship and...
The Wider Geopolitical Repercussions of Enforcing a One-Sided Peace onto the Middle East
Of all the varying reactions from the rest
of the world following the White House’s latest
Mid-East Peace Plan, none as such have come as a...
Erdogan battles on multiple fronts in risky regional power bid
The optics seem evident: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at
odds with just about everybody.
Mr. Erdogan is on opposite sides of Russia in Syria,...
Turkey’s new Mediterranean and Maghreb policy
Strategy and geopolitics are like
Aristotelian physics: there is no vacuum.
In
fact, just as Italy is leaving the fundamental Libyan area to its destiny and
hence...
Conflict between Palestine and Israel: Religio-Political Perspective
Authors: Asfandiyar Khan and Areeja Syed
Palestine
is a disputed territory between Palestine and Israel. The West Bank and Gaza
has been a disputed territory throughout history. It...
Donald Trump’s Son-in-Law plan or Deal of the Century
Apart from US perhaps India is the only country
that can diplomatically help in resolving the issue because it has good
relations with both the parties...
Erdogan seeks to achieve the dream of the empire’s rebirth
We are
coming closer to the centennial celebration of Atatürk’s establishment of the
modern Turkish state while 100 years have already passed since the Ottoman Empire’s
sunset....