Middle East & Africa

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...

Soleimani’s assassination triggers US-Iran standoff

Amidst an environment of a tense standoff between Iran and the US since the last couple of months, the United States assassinated high-ranking Iranian military and intelligence...

Iran: What next?

The United States portrayed top Iranian commander Major Gen Qassem Soleimani, killed in an air strike, architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East.  After killing...

Why Not Diplomacy?

After the death of Moammar Khadhafi in 2011, Libya was dragged into Civil War. After that, the election held in 2014 was the breaking point of...

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