Saudis would not have taken action under Reagan, Bush, Clinton or Obama without serious repercussions, says Mark Warner Prominent senators lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday for his statement on the killing [ More … ]
‘Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States,’ US president says Companies doing business with Iran will be barred from the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, [ More … ]
The Israeli army has killed at least 28 Palestinians and injured at least 1,600 others alongside the eastern borders of the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza. After [ More … ]
The most significant foreign policy move of the Trump presidency so far risks confrontation with Tehran and feeds growing rift with Europe. The international community condemns Trump’s decision to nix Iran nuclear deal but Israel, Saudi [ More … ]
By: Yusuf Kaplan* Saudi Arabia “boiled over” the previous night. U.S. media suddenly spread coup rumours in the country. To be honest, a “coup” did happen in the country, but it happened a while ago. Crown Prince [ More … ]
French president says he persuaded Trump that it was necessary to stay in Syria French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he had convinced US President Donald Trump to maintain troops in Syria, as he [ More … ]
US hits ‘Syrian Military Sites’, in collaboration with UK and France, as Russia and Iran warn of consequences. US President Donald Trump has ordered air attacks in Syria “on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities”, in collaboration with [ More … ]
Russia’s campaign in Syria has allowed Russia to re-emerge as a leading actor in the Middle East thanks, to a large extent, to the use of hard power and coercive diplomacy. As Moscow looks to [ More … ]
After the mass crackdown Mohamed Bin Selman exercised against top figures in the Saudi kingdom including sons of previous king Abdullah and family member like AL-Waleed Bin Talal, in a recent interview with CBSNews, MBS [ More … ]
The absence of a US ambassador in Riyadh comes as Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington is being finalised President Donald Trump has yet to appoint an ambassador to Saudi Arabia, leaving diplomatic relations in [ More … ]
One of the serious medium- and long-term challenges facing Africa and the African Union is the proliferation of military bases established on the continent by foreign powers. These have the potential to threaten national and [ More … ]
The Israeli Prime Minister has struck a defiant tone the day after his country bombed Iranian and Syrian targets — and promised to continue to strike back against his enemies. Benjamin Netanyahu defied Russian president [ More … ]
Saudi Arabian forces have replaced Egyptian troops on Tiran Island, marking the first step in the handover over of two Red Sea islands ceded to the Persian Gulf kingdom in a 2016 border agreement, according [ More … ]
US president previously accused Qatar of funding militant groups ‘at a very high level’ In an apparent shift in the White House’s stance on the Gulf crisis, US President Donald Trump on Monday thanked the [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay* The case that started in the U.S. as a “Reza Zarrab case” and was later turned into a Hakan Atilla case concluded last week with the verdict of the jury. The jury [ More … ]
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