Saudi Silliness: Fracas with Qatar and Sectarian Injunction
Adnan Qaiser | In my paper in spring 2017: ‘Radical Islamism: Understanding Extremist Narrative and Mindset,’ I had postulated that all Middle East’s ills lie...
It is check and mate for Israel in Golan Heights
M K Bhadrakumar | Israel has suffered a big setback in the Syrian conflict with the deployment of Russian military police in the safe zone...
Plot thickens in great game over post-ISIS Iraq and Syria
M K Bhadrakumar | The post-ISIS future of Iraq and Syria has been a topic of animated discussion among American think tankers, the assumption being...
The Gulf crisis: Small states battle it out (SSRN Working Paper Part 1)
James M. Dorsey | Abstract Buried in the Gulf crisis is a major development likely to reshape international relations as well as power dynamics in the...
Teenage Saudi girl lauded for introducing Hijabi Emoji
News Analysis | A Saudi born teenager living in Austria has come up with an Emoji for the millions of the Hijabis like her, around...
US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict
James M. Dorsey | US President Donald J. Trump. in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilize Iran,...
US plan to (re)occupy Iraq faces resistance
M K Bhadrakumar | The US’s longstanding project to push for an independent Kurdistan in the oil-rich regions of northern Iraq and Syria in the...
Qatar scores, at least on the soccer pitch
James M. Dorsey | Qatar won more than a symbolic victory with a decision by European soccer body UEFA to award controversial television network Al Jazeera’s...
Bloodshed continues in Syria
News Analysis | A Syrian military unit was ambushed on Thursday by insurgent near the capital, Damascus, triggering a firefight that killed 28 government troops....
The Gulf crisis: A battle of megalomaniacs
James M. Dorsey | There are fundamental problems in trying to learn lessons or draw conclusions from the Gulf crisis for the role of small...
China takes a leap of faith in the Middle East
M K Bhadrakumar | Like a deer caught in the headlight on the median of the highway at night, South Block stands paralyzed as the...
Deconstructing Trump: Iran sanctions
M K Bhadrakumar | There is an old impish yarn that Noah was stunned to see the two cats he’d put in the Ark trooping...