Sudan
Arab dictators stick with Sudan’s Bashir, fearing ‘they will be next’
Arab dictators stick with Sudan’s Bashir, fearing ‘they will be next’ Arab dictators stick with Sudan’s Bashir, fearing ‘they will be next’ [ More … ]
US
Saudi Arabia News
Ending U.S. Military Support for Saudi Arabia in Yemen Would Trigger Dangerous Consequences
In a new resolution, a bipartisan group of senators is calling for the United States to end its involvement—specifically its support of Saudi Arabia—in the Yemen conflict. The Senate has voted 63-37 to pass a [ More … ]
Egypt Latest News
Egypt’s Sisi, like Trump, puts his country up for sale
General Abdelfattah El-Sisi, the autocratic dictator of Egypt and good friend of Donald Trump, has more in common with the president of the U.S. than his autocratic methods. Like Trump, he has been putting his [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia News
US ambassador to UN Haley blames Saudi crown prince for murder
US ‘can’t give Saudi Arabia a pass’ on Khashoggi, US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley says, blames crown prince for murder Saudi Arabia will not receive a pass for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, U.S. [ More … ]
Syria Latest News
Turkey to start military operation in east of Euphrates in few days: Erdogan
Turkey will carry out a military operation east of the Euphrates River in Syria in a couple of days, and this step will facilitate the country’s political solution, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. [ More … ]
Column
A fork in the road between the US and Saudi Arabia?
BY: Yasin Aktay If the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was committed using all the means of the Saudi Arabian government, then those who commissioned it can theoretically be distinguished from the state, regardless of their [ More … ]
Palestine Latest News
U.N. Fails to Pass U.S.-Sponsored Resolution Condemning Hamas
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly. Before Thursday’s vote, [ More … ]
Column
Saudi-US relations: Will time fix everything?
By: Yasin Aktay Trump’s instant squandering of centuries-old values without batting an eyelid in order to protect Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his risking of discrediting the CIA, his own intelligence organization that [ More … ]
Column
The US sanctions on Iran force whom to do what?
BY: Yasin Aktay* We have entered a new phase in the Iran issue (actually in the U.S.’s dance with Iran). In reality, the Obama administration took the nuclear program of Iran under control to some extent [ More … ]
Analysis
Is there an Arab winter coming? – Analysis
Gulf states are asserting themselves more than ever, and that’s a problem for the U.S. Three years ago, then Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter attributed Iran’s growing dominance to its being “in the game, on [ More … ]
Turkey Latest News
Turkey, US lift tit-for-tat sanctions
The United States on Friday removed two top Turkish officials from the Global Magnitsky Act sanctions list, according to the Treasury Department website. The United States had imposed sanctions on the officials, Justice Minister Abdulhamit [ More … ]
Iran Latest News
US reinstates all sanctions on Iran lifted under 2015 nuclear deal
The Trump administration is announcing the reimposition of all U.S. sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the sanctions are “aimed at fundamentally altering [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia News
Khashoggi Case Erodes Saudi Reputation, and Allies Worry: NYT
The ascendance of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia was a boon for Israel, He sought to push back against Iran, even comparing its supreme leader to Hitler. He cared little for the Palestinian [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia News
Saudi lobbying in US tripled during Trump’s first year in office, reports
Saudi Arabia spent almost $27 million on U.S. lobbying in 2017, nearly triple the amount during former President Obama’s last year in office, according to figures compiled by a Washington-based think tank, Lobbying expenditures jumped from [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia News
U.S. Spy Agencies Convinced of MBS’ Ties to Khashoggi’s Disappearance: NYT
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 … ]