Middle East & Africa
Enemy of My Enemy: Keeping Iran Cornered through Saudi-Israeli Strategy
The endlessly fickle oscillation of global affairs is being witnessed today by the waxing and waning of American enthusiasm for an Iranian nuclear deal,...
Burundi: Storm Warning
The United Nations Human Rights Council ended its session on Friday, 3 July, and called attention to two new country situations which require strong...
UN Reaffirms the Safeguards for Civilians in Times of War
“Accountability for breaches of international humanitarian law and for human rights violations, as well as respect for human rights, are not obstacles to peace,...
Iran’s Competing Futures: Global Economic Participant or Regional Religious Hegemon?
As the official deadline for the nuclear deal approaches, many are expressing their apprehension over the consequences that may emerge should a deal be...
Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
The Middle East is the only region where all three kinds of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) have been used and developed. Accusations, allegations,...
Through the eyes of a holocaust survivor
The independent news media is often silenced into submission with howls of ‘anti-Semitism’ whenever a writer criticises policies or tactics of the Israeli government....
Turkish Geostrategy- trying to make sense?
The country seems to be in a category of its own. Perhaps its geographical position, making it a Balkan country in Europe, but also...
Kurds, The Invisible people
Oppression, denial of existence, prohibition of usage of mother language in public, the press and institutions, forced relocations, no recognition, fear of expressing identity,...
State of confusion on the edge of total collapse
Four years of fighting and no concrete solutions coming from regional, international actors or organizations, not a single action and agreement reached so far...
What Erdogan will do next?
With a very characteristic,(glee), article by the opposition Erdogan Turkish newspaper Cumhürriyet, reported that until yesterday almighty sultan of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan while coming...