Middle East & Africa
Who benefits most of suspicious attacks on oil tankers, tensions in the Gulf?
The events roiling the Persian Gulf in recent weeks and days have the
potential to affect everything from the price of gas to the fate...
Review: Africa At The SPIEF’19
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held
series of diplomatic discussions with a number of high-level African
delegations who attended the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF)
from...
The odds of success for Japanese PM’s visit to Iran
US President’s recent retreat from his previous rhetoric stances towards
Iran should not be misinterpreted as the White House’s retreat from its policy
of ‘maximum pressure’...
Russian Iranian strains raise spectre of US-Israeli-Russian deal on Syria
With Israel set to host an unprecedented
meeting of the national security advisors of the United States, Russia and
Israel, this week’s efforts by German foreign
minister...
The Congo Affair With Russia
Over the years, Russia and the Republic of
the Congo have had good bilateral relations and, undoubtedly, there are still
prospects for strengthening these relations especially...
Clerics and entertainment seek to bolster MbS’s grip on power
A public apology by a prominent Salafi scholar sheds a light on Saudi crown prince
Mohammed bin Salman’s version of ‘moderate Islam,’ his effort to...
President Trump’s Middle East Plan
Considering
what reported in the media, President Trump's Middle East Plan - not yet fully
outlined - is based, according to his son-in-law and senior advisor,...
Soccer emerges as the Gulf crisis’s potential icebreaker
It was on the soccer pitch that 2022 World Cup host Qatar definitively
shrugged off the UAE-Saudi-led economic and diplomatic boycott of the Gulf
state as...
Jordan between the Hammer of Economic Hardships and the Anvil of the “Deal of the Century”
The public outrage seen in the
Jordanian street has been growing louder, alongside the state's failure to
fight the country's rampant administrative and financial corruption. The
Jordanian...
Defying authority: Arab, Russia and Pakistan protesters learn lessons of 2011
Demonstrators in Sudan, Algeria and
nations beyond the Middle East such as Pakistan and Russia are applying lessons
learnt from the 2011 popular Arab revolts as...