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...
Will Trump return to JCPOA? Iran-US relation conundrum
In business transactions and international diplomacy alike, there could be constant variables and dependent variables. Constant variable is where the value cannot be changed...
Erdogan backs up Muslim cleric who said homosexuals are responsible for the pandemic
Head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Ali Erbaş used a sermon at the start of Ramadan to call on people to “work together”...
Ertugrul: Turkish Game of Thrones, An inspiration to rebuild the Islamic Empire
Herodotus who is deemed to be the “father of history” set the precedent of writing history as a flowing and engaging narrative. He told...
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...
Iran says US cannot extend the arms embargo after it pulled out from the nuclear deal
Tehran on Monday told Washington to "stop dreaming" after it was reported that the US plans to prevent the expiry of an international embargo...
Syria bleeds: Israeli airstrikes kills three civilians including a child
Israeli airstrikes near the Syrian capital early Monday killed three civilians, state media said. "Three civilians were martyred and four others wounded, including a child,...
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...
Engineers in Palestinian university design ‘home-made’ ventilator
A Palestinian university on Thursday unveiled a "home-made" ventilator as West Bank hospitals brace for a potential wave of coronavirus patients. The device was released...
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...
Frustrated Trump orders US forces to shoot down Iranian ships
US forces in the Persian Gulf have been authorized to open fire on Iranian ships if they ‘harass’ them at sea, President Donald Trump...