By: Yasin Aktay* The murder of Jamal Khashoggi that was planned in advance and conducted in an organized manner ended with the opposite of the desired outcome because of “a small misfortune” which was not plotted [ More … ]
Kingdom sacks intelligence official, arrests 18 Saudis saying the missing journalist was killed in a ‘fist fight’. Saudi Arabia admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul, saying he died [ More … ]
American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is culpable in the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, an appraisal that poses challenges to a White House [ More … ]
Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said [ More … ]
The Saudi -led coalition has been criticised repeatedly for targeting civilian areas in their attacks in Yemen, but the images of children covered in blood still appear to have shocked the world. The Saudi -led [ More … ]
As the Saudi-UAE offensive on the Yemeni port city of Hudaida continues and intensifies, there seems to be no solution that will serve the people of the city. Despite his efforts, the UN special envoy [ More … ]
As the Gulf crisis marks its one year anniversary, settlement seems as distant as ever. Both sides seem to have come to terms with the new reality. While the crisis had certainly been brewing for [ More … ]
A persistent narrative about Saudi Arabia describes the country as in perpetual struggle between the forces of modernity and the forces of traditionalism. This paper contributes to the on-going evaluation of this paradigm and its [ More … ]
Yemen’s collapse derives from a combination of internal rivalries between elites, rising demands of a poor population, and international interventions, both from the neoliberal international financiers and the politically-motivated actors in support or opposition 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 4 December death of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the hands of his former Houthi coalition partners, is a culmination of the differing interests that informed the coalition’s initial inception, and alludes [ More … ]
It’s been tried before. The results were mixed. Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), isn’t just consolidating power before his probable ascent to the throne. He’s also trying to remake Saudi society. [ More … ]
Copyright © 2016 | Middle East Observer