Middle East & Africa
Saudi Arabia drags geopolitical baggage on to the World Cup pitch
Saudi Arabia has much at stake when its national soccer team enters the pitch for the opening match of the 2018 World Cup in...
Hudaydah under the Mercy of the Hostile Saudi-led Coalition
On Wednesday morning, 13 June 2018, the hostile Saudi-led coalition have launched an offensive against Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hudaydah in defiance...
Whither the Kurds?
Palestinians have long been known for a history of missing opportunities. By contrast, Kurds spread across several Middle Eastern nations appeared to have a...
Does Iran represent a nuclear problem or a gas problem?
It is said that there are always two reasons for people's behavior: the reason they give, and the real reason. Throughout history, religious and...
Selahattin Demirtas: We are not the PKK’s political wing
Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas says that the Kurdish-focused People's Democratic Party (HDP) has no relations of any kind with the PKK.
Undoubtedly, political campaign is...
Parallels between Turkish soccer and general elections could prove uncanny
With electoral upsets having become the norm, the latest upheaval that last week swept aside the long-standing president of Fenerbahce SC, the political crown...
Mauritania Conference : AU Reopen Western Sahara File
Since the kingdom of Morocco left the OAU in 1984, the Kingdom’s participation with the African states has been seen by its enterprise involvement...
Saudi effort to isolate Iran internationally produces results
Saudi efforts to isolate Iran internationally are producing results in North Africa and Central Asia. Authorities and religious leaders in Tajikistan and Algeria have...
Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup
Argentina’s cancellation of a friendly against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world...
Jordanian protests: Revisiting the Arab Spring and setting a benchmark
Protests that forced Jordan’s prime minister to resign and laid bare the country’s systemic economic and political crisis shed a new light on the...