Egypt’s strongman repeats Hosni Mubarak’s errors, to everyone’s peril. Several years ago, in Cairo, I asked Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to name Hosni Mubarak’s biggest mistake. “He stayed in power for a long time,” Egypt’s sixth [ More … ]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday gave strong backing to Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as Sisi grapples with protests at home – saying the United States and Egypt have a great long-term relationship. “Everybody [ More … ]
The US will send reinforcements to the Middle East following the attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. The Pentagon said on Friday that the US will deploy additional troops and military equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab [ More … ]
The two biggest warnings came in January when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that unless Israel reduces cooperation with China, the U.S. might reduce “intelligence sharing and co-location of security facilities.” Opinion Column By [ More … ]
Unannounced visit comes as France ramps up efforts to ease tensions between Iran and US over Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran‘s top diplomat has held talks with France‘s President Emmanuel Macron at the sidelines of the [ More … ]
Move slammed as ‘affront to the American people’ and’ assault on Palestinians’ right ‘to reach out to decision-makers’. Israel has decided to bar United Statescongresswomen Congress Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country ahead of [ More … ]
Accusing the US of delaying the set up of safe zones, Erdogan announces incursion into Syria to dislodge YPG militia. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renewed a pledge to carry out a cross-border military [ More … ]
The assassination of Jamal Khashoggi was no aberration. A Vanity Fair investigation reveals how Saudi Arabia attempts to abduct, repatriate—and sometimes murder—citizens it regards as enemies of the state. BY AYMAN M. MOHYELDIN DÜSSELDORF Prince Khaled bin Farhan [ More … ]
As Iranian officials begin probe into the seized tanker, London tells UK ships to avoid Strait of Hormuz. US to launch plan for ‘free passage’ of ships in Iran’s waterway. The United Kingdom has told all British [ More … ]
Ahead of the Trump administration’s “economic workshop” in Bahrain, Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt recently acknowledged what many had already surmised: that the full unveiling of the US “peace plan” would be postponed once more, [ More … ]
Officials to gather for so-called ‘Peace to Prosperity’ workshop, the economic part of Trump’s ‘deal of the century’. Bahrain is set to host the so-called “Peace to Prosperity” workshop to discuss what the US described [ More … ]
Touted by its architects as the ‘deal of the century’, US president Donald Trump’s plan for Palestine and Israel has had to again be kept hidden as Israel heads back to elections after a failure [ More … ]
Iran says it “categorically rejects” US claims that it is behind attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had blamed Iran for the “unprovoked attacks” on [ More … ]
The Trump administration seems to be preparing to circumvent Congress to allow the export to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of billions of dollars of munitions that are now on hold, according to [ More … ]
Turkey is face-to-face with a millennium-old showdown. It is under the threat of those who want to avenge the conquest of Istanbul, those who want to avenge Manzikert – which paved the way to the [ More … ]
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