It’s time to recognize that sanctions against the Assad regime have failed and that a more realistic policy could yield real benefits and reduce escalatory risks, states Responsible Statecraft. “Most Middle East countries are now [ More … ]
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message of appreciation to Egypt when he received the credentials of new foreign ambassadors in Moscow, including the new Egyptian ambassador to Russia, Nazih al-Nagari, reported Egypt Independent, an [ More … ]
Many experts and commentators have written in recent months, with the benefit of hindsight, about the errors, shortcomings, and near total failures of the unprecedented revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa that erupted [ More … ]
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 … ]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad is widely believed to have killed a number of Arab and Muslim scientists worldwide. A major function of the Israeli intelligence is obviously to follow the activities of the Arab nuclear [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay At the end of the holy month of Ramadan, the beginning connoting mercy, the ending salvation, we have reached Eid. As a result of its nature, because it was obligatory upon those [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia has invited Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, who is wanted for alleged war crimes, to a summit with US President Donald Trump and Arab and Muslim leaders, a Saudi official said Wednesday. “He (Bashir) [ More … ]
Arab interior ministers on Wednesday met for their 34th session in Tunis, Tunisia, under the patronage of President Beji Caid Essebsi. The Saudi delegation was led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif, honorary president of [ More … ]
Emir of Qatar Sheikh Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani hailed Monday, in Doha (Qatar), in an audience he granted to the Speaker of the People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) Mohamed Larbi Ould [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch on Monday said Daesh fighters have raped and tortured not only Yazidi women but also Sunni Arab women. Daesh fighters, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and [ More … ]
“The democratic model in Tunisia proves that the advent of democracy in the Arab and Muslim world is possible,” Tunisian PM Youssef Chahed said at a conference held at the headquarters of the Konrad Adenauer [ More … ]
Palestinian passport holders to be treated like all other Arab nationalities in Kuwait Kuwait’s interior ministry has given the green light to recruiting teachers holding Palestinian passport, saying that they could live and work in [ More … ]
BY: Akif Emre* There is an interesting matter in Russia’s draft of the Syrian constitution that emerged after the Astana talks. Accordingly, the official name of Syria is the Republic of Syria. Russia removes the word [ More … ]
By: Azmi Bishara* Arabs are not alone in the crisis of Syria and Iraq, including affecting the Arab identity of the two countries and their unity. In fact, Iran is undergoing a real crisis there, [ More … ]
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