Egypt allows soccer fans to attend matches after six years!
James M. Dorsey | Caught between a rock and a hard place, Egyptian general-turned-president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has agreed to allow thousands of fans to...
Tehran hits Delhi’s underbelly as Modi hugs Trump and Netanyahu
News Analysis | Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Khamenei has spoken in favor of the 'oppressed Muslims' of Kashmir for the second time in as many...
Jackson report puts Saudi Arabia and UK in a tight spot
James Dorsey | A report charging Saudi Arabia with funding extremism in Britain puts both the Kingdom and Prime Minister Teresa May on the spot. The report...
The club of four castigate Qatar’s piecemeal response
News Analysis | The GCC surge against one of its member countries, Qatar continues as the crisis over its alleged support for terrorism turns into...
Pak-Iran: energy sector performance and wind power project
News Analysis | By the end of the financial year 2017, it can be said that Pakistan’s power and energy sector will see tremendous improvements...
Israel tackles Trump’s Syrian blues
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Government officials can be broadly put into two categories — those who take to bureaucratic skullduggery like fish to water and...
Indomitable Qatar up against rampant opponents
News Analysis | The Qatar crisis enters its second month tomorrow with no immediate and amicable end in sight.The tiny Gulf country has shown defiance and...
A tough choice to make
News Analysis | The recent conflict in the Middle East has created a real possibility for the creation of an independent Kurdish state. Kurds are...
Qatar: a case study of how small states are treated in International realm
James M. Dorsey | A Qatari refusal to bow to the dictate of its larger neighbors is a case study of the place of small...
Of oil,economy,and Israel:US stakes in Syria
Nauman Sadiq l Washington’s interest in the Syrian civil war is partly about ensuring Israel’s regional security and partly it is about doing the bidding...
Has Russia entered NATO’s bedroom?
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Can we say a “terrible beauty” is born in the NATO’s underbelly — to borrow the words from the Irish-English poet...
The Pakistan diaspora,economy and the Gulf crisis
Saleem Akhtar Malik l A little more than a century after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire,the Arab Middle East looks as fragile as the...