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Arab NATO: A US plan to curb Iran, deprive China, Russia from arms market
Research assistant professor in Qatar University believes that the US plan to form Arab NATO aims not only to curb Iran but also to...
Talking to Rouhani: Is Trump shooting from the hip or following a script?
Message to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Tel Aviv: Not to worry, US President Donald J. Trump has no intention of meeting his Iranian counterpart,...
Lack of global leadership spurs instability in the Middle East
With multiple Middle Eastern disputes threatening to spill out of control, United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash acknowledged what...
Why Jeremy Corbyn snubbed a Saudi prince but welcomed Qatar’s emir
British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn sat down Monday night with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar. The meeting, which occurred...
Saudi oil shipment halt: A potential watershed in the Yemen war
A spike in oil prices as a result of a temporary halt in shipments through the strategic Bab el Mandeb strait may be short-lived,...
Saudi-UK media tie-up: Targeting the non-Arabic-speaking Middle East
Long satisfied to attempt to dominate pan-Arab media and battle it out with Qatar’s state-owned Al Jazeera television network, Saudi Arabia has now set...
Russian Hackers: The shadowy world of US and Gulf hacks just got murkier
The covert Qatar-United Arab Emirates cyberwar that helped spark the 13-month-old Gulf crisis that pits a Saudi-United Arab Emirates-led alliance against Qatar may have...
Saudi Arabia, UAE footprint in Eritrea- Ethiopia rapprochement
In a landmark visit, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed landed in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, on Sunday, for a bilateral summit, aimed at repairing...
Xinjiang: Pan-Turkism fuels China’s hearts-and-minds campaign
Chinese efforts to woo Saudi Arabia’s ethnic Chinese community highlight the People’s Republic’s effort to avert criticism from the Muslim world of its crackdown...
Whither Wahhabism?
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman could well dash expectations that he is gunning for a break with Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism rather than a...