Air travel will not normalise easily: Emirates warns stakeholders
Middle East's biggest airline, Emirates’ passenger operations are suspended since March 25 and it predicts that the air travel is not going to resume soon.
Ensuring security of Gulf in post-pandemic world
The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout may rewrite the Gulf security as well as the political and economic map of the Middle East....
Emirates & Etihad in serious trouble: Revival may take 5 years
GCC airlines hit hard by corona pandemic
Arab League says annexation of West bank is ”war crime”,urges US to withdraw support
The Arab League said Thursday Israel's controversial proposal to annex much of the West Bank constituted a "new war crime" against the Palestinians, during...
Israel’s annexation of West Bank: What tensions it might inflame in the region?
Arab foreign ministers are to hold talks on Thursday on Israel's US-backed plans to annex key parts of the occupied West Bank. Concern has mounted...
History’s largest shipbuilding order: from Qatar to a Chinese Company
Qatar awards history's largest shipbuilding order to a Chinese company, looking towards a stragegic relationship with China, but may upset Washington in the process.
Saudi Arabia’s MBS struggles as geopolitics gets out of hand
Oil Price War: Saudi US Rift Combatting the coronavirus and coping with the pandemic’s economic fallout may be Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s...
US Annoyed as Iran Becomes a Potential Ally of Gulf Nations
It is early days, but first indications are that the global pandemic is entrenching long-drawn Middle Eastern geopolitical, political, ethnic, and sectarian battle lines...
Hidden motives behind Israel-Azerbaijan alliance
Populated by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry waited back in 1991 in the wake of the collapse of the...
UN warns Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank
The UN's special Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, on Thursday warned Israel not to annex parts of the West Bank, saying such a move...
US-Saudi oil clash breeding a larger conflict
The coronavirus pandemic and the global economic meltdown forced Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Russia to call time out...
Where the US aid package for Palestine went? Envoy rejects US boastings
The Palestinian envoy to France said Washington lied about sending millions in aid to beleaguered hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank, insisting the...