Ahmad Naji If one battle in Yemen’s war seems designed to kill as many fighters as possible, it is the one currently taking place in Ma’rib Governorate. Five years of fighting between Ansar Allah, usually referred to as the Houthis, and armed groups loyal to the internationally recognized …

Giancarlo Elia Valori There are currently three types of intelligence transformations, namely conceptual, technological and operational. In the first case, we are dealing with a new and original intelligence paradigm. From a mechanism based on the identification of the need for information-research-processing and analysis-dissemination-feedback, we are shifting to …

   Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet US President Trump with representatives from Israel, the UAE and Bahrain for the signing of an agreement to normalise relations, 15 September 2020. The announcement of yet another historic agreement between an Arabian government in the Persian Gulf – Bahrain – and the State of …

Thomas de Waal The political crisis in Belarus is now so protracted that analysts are reaching for chess metaphors. The opposition owns the streets of the capital city, Minsk, as another huge demonstration proved again on Sunday, September 27. Yet Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whose sickening brutality has shocked the world, …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs Iran and India have thousands of year’s records of cultural and civilizational relations. Official relations between the two countries were established after India’s independence. Iran and India signed a friendship pact after India’s independence. Iran’s position in India’s …

By James M. Dorsey Saudi Arabia’s chairmanship of the Group of Twenty (G20) is proving to be a mixed blessing. The country and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman saw their chairmanship as an opportunity to showcase the kingdom’s leadership and ability to be a visionary global player. But …

Giancarlo Elia Valori What is strategic intelligence currently used for? First and foremost, for correctly orienting the long sequence of decision makers’ interpretations. Secondly, for acting as automatic or non-automatic selector of relevant or non-relevant facts and news for those who have access to the intelligence system. Finally, …

Giancarlo Elia Valori In March 2019, Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang made a long trip to Eastern Europe. The reference for that trip, full of bilateral meetings, was the one found in the Joint Declaration of the EU-China Summit of April 9, 2019. A document in which, as …

Ola Owojori U.S. diplomacy has failed. African diplomacy can’t afford to.The Blue Nile as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, near Guba, Ethiopia, on Dec. 26, 2019.  Eduardo Soteras/AFP/Getty Images Egypt and Sudan have threatened to withdraw from negotiations over the filling and operation of the Grand …