Middle East & Africa
Tel Aviv fears Hezbollah more than ever
Israelis are riddled with fear, fear of Hezbollah missile capability and the invaluable experience of Lebanese resistance fighters in the Syrian War.
Israeli troops in...
Iran: Recapping the year 2018
With the year 2018 according to the Christian calendar now out and 2019 now setting in, people traditionally sum up the results of the...
The best policy for Iran is look inside strategy
Donald Trump and America's increasing recession in pursuing its principles and returning its government to targeted policies based on the containment of regional power...
Iran-Saudi Rivalry: Sectarian or Political?
The international community always declares ‘Sectarianism’ as a triggering factor behind all the conflict and clashes in the Middle East, and it injects this...
Saudi Arabia and the West’s right wing: A dubious alliance
Traditionally focussed on ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Islam, Saudi funding in the era of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has been streamlined and finetuned to...
Saudi-Iranian Struggle in the New Middle East
It is known that the Gulf States have a good stability. Over the past ten years, they have been working to make their way...
Who will be the leader of Turkey after Erdogan?
Since President Erdogan has been successful in every election he has entered for years, there is a view that "Erdogan will never lose" which...
Efforts to return Syria’s Assad to Arab fold amount to hollow victory for autocrats
Two developments, the pending return of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to the Arab fold and protests in Sudan, Jordan and Tunisia, send contradictory messages...
The Truth About Russia And Africa: Interview with Prof. Vladimir Shubin
Professor Vladimir Shubin, the Deputy Director of the Institute for African Studies , Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, has raised some serious issues...
US troop withdrawals threaten to fuel greater, potentially problematic Gulf assertiveness
As far as Gulf leaders are concerned, President Donald J. Trump demonstrated with his announced US troop withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan that his...