The previous week, President Erdogan announced his plan to send Turkish troops to Libya. The necessary legitimation of the Turkish parliament now exists and with potentially even more fragility in the region. The plan was mandated on Thursday. As a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution over corruption charges. Until fresh elections have been held in March, a trial will likely be delayed. This will be the third election Netanyahu faces in one...
In 1953, after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh threatened to limit the oil reserve control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP, British Petroleum) and threatened to nationalize the country’s oil industry, the United States CIA put “Operation...
As government troops tighten the noose on Syria’s Idlib province, hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians have been driven from their homes. For the displaced masses, tough choices lie ahead. The northbound road towards Turkey may be their only hope...
Thousand of Iraqis attacked and disrupted the US embassy in Baghdad Dec. 31 in protest against a US airstrike that reportedly killed 25 members of the Iranian-backed Shiite militia Kataib Hezbollah. The US government is now sending additional soldiers. Protesters...
Lebanese civilians fear there could be another war between Israel and Hezbollah after the discovery of rich offshore oil and gas reserves on disputed territory. International oil and gas exploration company, Energean, announced in November, 2019 that the waters near...
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again proved his popularity by decisively winning Likud party primaries held Dec. 27, despite the corruption charges facing him. Netanyahu got 41, 792 votes, which was 72.5 percent of the total votes cast, while...
In the murder case of the government-critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi judge has sentenced five individuals to death. For months, Saudi Arabia had faced scrutiny over the murder until, on Monday, the public prosecutor’s office in Riyadh announced the...
Iran’s telecommunications minister said the country has averted a crisis after a second cyber attack was launched against government installations within the same week. Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi would not give further details, saying only that the last attack was “massive,”...
In his sixth visit since assuming office less than two years ago, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan was in Riyadh last week to meet with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to “discuss recent developments in the regional context.”...