Iran may withdraw from the nuclear deal: warns Tehran

News Analysis | The United States is well and truly embroiled in two nuclear crises, one with North Korea and the other with Iran. The...

Iran and Afghan Taliban: A marriage of convenience or something bigger?

News Analysis | For 16 years, the United States has been in Afghanistan with a goal of preventing the war-torn country from once again being...

Gulf media wars produce losers, no winners

James M. Dorsey | Feuding Gulf states that have pumped millions of dollars into public diplomacy appear to have done better in damaging the reputations...

The Gulf crisis: Qatar’s 2022 World Cup moves into the firing line

James M. Dorsey | A French investigation into possible corruption in business deals related to Qatar’s winning of World Cup hosting rights moved the 2022 tournament a...

Tehran takes exceptions to new sanctions

News Analysis | Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has vowed to end his country's isolation in his second term. He was sworn in today just a...

Playing with Fire: Trump’s Iran policy risks cloning North Korea

James M. Dorsey | As US President Donald J. Trump gropes with a set of bad options for responding to North Korea’s rapidly expanding nuclear...

Playing both sides against the middle: Saudi Arabia engages with Iraqi Shiites

James M. Dorsey | Saudi Arabia, with the Islamic State on the ropes in Iraq, is forging ties to Iraqi Shiite leaders and offering to...

The Twists And Turns Of Indian-Iranian Military Aid To Iraq

Andrew Korybko | Both Great Powers are intensifying their military relations with the war-torn state in the wake of Daesh’s decisive defeat in Mosul, with news...

Saudi Silliness: Fracas with Qatar and Sectarian Injunction

Adnan Qaiser | In my paper in spring 2017: ‘Radical Islamism: Understanding Extremist Narrative and Mindset,’ I had postulated that all Middle East’s ills lie...

It is check and mate for Israel in Golan Heights

M K Bhadrakumar | Israel has suffered a big setback in the Syrian conflict with the deployment of Russian military police in the safe zone...

Plot thickens in great game over post-ISIS Iraq and Syria

M K Bhadrakumar | The post-ISIS future of Iraq and Syria has been a topic of animated discussion among American think tankers, the assumption being...

The Gulf crisis: Small states battle it out (SSRN Working Paper Part 1)

James M. Dorsey | Abstract Buried in the Gulf crisis is a major development likely to reshape international relations as well as power dynamics in the...
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