Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets his Sudanese counterpart Ali Al-Sadiq Ali in Tehran, Feb. 6 (image: Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
West ignores the Sudan war at its peril
The civil war still raging in Sudan between...
Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan (Image: Twitter)
Behind the News – June 2023
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT Seventy-nine rockets were launched...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (image: Shutterstock/Anas-Mohammed)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the shell game in Gaza
Israel is now in the midst of its...
Anti-Houthi demonstrations in Taiz, Yemen, 2014
Yemen’s Future: Partition, Hezbollisation or Talibanisation?
Saudi Arabia has been trying to extricate itself...
Parade Of IRGC Tank Transporters
Iran’s ongoing strategic success across a mercurial Middle East
The recent meeting in Syria between the Saudi...
(image: Chinese Foreign Ministry)
Misunderstanding the Middle East in the wake of the Iran-Saudi deal
The recent announcement of a deal, brokered under...
Mohammad Mehdi Karami (Image: Twitter)
Behind the News – February 2023
ROCKET AND TERROR REPORT A rocket that was...
The Abaham Accords normalising relations between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain (later joined by Sudan and Morocco) were signed on the White House lawn on Sept. 15, 2020. What has happened in the two years since then? (Photo: Flickr)
Two years of the Abraham Accords
09/22 #02 This Update contains two pieces outlining...
(Top) L-R: Oman’s Deputy Prime Minister for International Relations Asaad bin Tariq al-Said, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa, US President Joe Biden, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Kuwait’s Crown Prince Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, and Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi at the ‘Security and Development Summit’ in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on July 16 (Image: Balkis Press/ABACAPRESS.COM/AAP); (Bottom) L-R: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a three-way summit in Teheran, Iran, July 19 (Image: SalamPix/ABACAPRESS.COM/AAP).
Editorial: Two Mideast Visits
In mid-July, US President Joe Biden visited Israel...
(Credit: akramalrasny/ Shutterstock.com)
Stockholm syndrome: Yemen’s disastrous ceasefire
A ceasefire brokered in Yemen by the United...
Image: Israel's Government Press Office
An unprecedented summit highlights a changing Middle East
An edited version of this article appeared in...
FM3rqYOWYAUCMLZ
Israel uses Abraham Accords ties to encourage Middle Eastern allies to condemn Russia
The US has thanked Israel for lobbying its...