Middle East & Africa
The battle for Libya: The UAE calls the shots
This week’s inauguration of a new Red Sea Egyptian military base
was pregnant with the symbolism of the rivalries shaping the future of the
Middle East...
Berlin Conference on Libya
What are the strategic, military and political differences between
the war in Libya of 2011-2012 and the
current conflict in post-Gaddafi Libya?
There are many differences....
Iran crisis: A high-stakes bet on who blinks first
Two sets of
US government cables suggest that Iran hawks in and outside the Trump
administration appear to have the upper hand as European countries give
hardliners...
Assassination of Qassem Solemani: Strategic American Re-course
For Iran,
international sympathy dissolved all very quickly. Ukrainian International
Airlines 752 was downed by a surface to air missile; moments after it took off
from Tehran....
2020 Forecast: Revealing the Future of the Middle East
Authors: Maria Al Makahleh (Dubovikova) and Shehab Al Makahleh*
“When I thought I had already reached the bottom, they knocked from
below.”-Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
This quote...
The clash between Iran and the United States after Soleimani’s death
“Operation Martyr Soleimani” began on the night of
January 8. The leader of the Pasdaran Al Quds Brigade had died on the night of
January 3.
Some...
No winners in any war
In a rare accident during my last year’s trip to India, a cobra managed
to sneak into a jaguar’s enclosure in one of the country’s...
Iran’s Middle East Strategy
A look at the map of the Middle East reveals three
major geographic regions: the Anatolian Peninsula (Turkey), the Arabian
Peninsula (Saudi Arabia) and the Iranian...
Nhaka Foundation: Transforming Education and Improving Basic Health Care in Zimbabwe
In this
interview, Patrick Makokoro, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nhaka
Foundation, discusses the organisation's efforts at supporting education and
health care in rural regions...
Iran plays chess, the US plays backgammon
Iranians
play chess, Americans play backgammon when it comes to warfare, military
strategy and conflict management.
That is
becoming increasingly obvious in the US-Iranian tit-for-tat on an Iraqi
gameboard.
Hobbled
by...