Peaceful revolutions seldom stay that way for long. Sudan’s desperate decline from bloodless coup to civilian massacre is surely testament to this. Where just weeks earlier jubilant song had filled the Khartoum air, the clatter of gunfire melded with the...
In the squalid camp in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state in Myanmar, the heat is sweltering and unforgiving inside the tin-roofed makeshift huts. Encased by barbed wires, there is no escape; the outside world is a dwindling hope to...
As Graham Allison writes in Destined for War, in 2011, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced with considerable fanfare an important “turning point” in American foreign policy. This would have diverted Washington’s attention and resources from the Middle East to...
Peace talks between the United States and North Korea are back on the agenda in Washington thanks to an impromptu meeting at the DMZ on Sunday. The G20 summit in Osaka, Japan was concluding when US President Donald Trump tweeted...
CNN‘s Zachary B. Wolf stated that the Republicans love the Electoral College and the Democrats hate it, because it cost both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton the 2000 and 2016 presidential elections respectively. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said at...
(Cairo) Whether Iran will move ahead with its threat to stop complying with uranium enrichment limits included in the 2015 nuclear accord with major powers, is a question the Islamic Republic will answer in the coming days. Iran said on...
Three months after his ouster, Omar al Bashir, the embattled former leader of Sudan, is currently awaiting trial in Khartoum on charges relating to corruption. But the move has done very little to mollify the civilians who were the instigators...
Stories of White House in-fighting among Trump administration officials regularly trickled out as staff come and go. Often these narratives shed some light on why U.S. President Donald Trump cannot maintain a cohesive staff. Personality conflicts and policy disagreements are...
“Whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey,” noted president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not so long ago. Words he’ll live to regret, if ever they come true. The city of his birth, his political awakening and his ascent to power is – after...
For some years now, poverty and human development have complicated the precise ranking of India in terms of the “four worlds” geopolitical archetype. With regards to population, the country carries the second largest national community, dwarfed only by the population...