Alexander Mercouris It is difficult to believe that there is nobody within the British foreign policy establishment who does not have grave doubts about the Cameron government’s ultra-hardline anti-Russian policy.  Though it has attracted surprisingly little international attention, Britain is holding a general election to decide the make-up of its …

By Nicola Abé, Christiane Hoffmann, Horand Knaup, René Pfister and Christoph Schult Relations between Germany and Israel are at a crossroads. Is it possible for the German government to continue to steadfastly support the country even as Jerusalem continues to refuse to allow the Palestinians to establish their …

On May 3, Saudi-led coalition entered Yemen. According to reports about from 20 to 50 soldiers have landed in Yemen’s strategic port of Aden for a ‘reconnaissance’ mission and more troops are coming. The deployment of Saudi-led forces seeks the goal to help forces loyal to US, Saudi …

Charlotte Kennedy Anthony Bubalo recently lamented that alliances and enmities in the Middle East are becoming so complex that even long-term watchers are struggling to keep up. Well, if that’s the case, Pakistan just added to the layers of confusion. Last month, Pakistan surprisingly refused to join its long-time ally and benefactor …

Nikolas K. Gvosdev There have been two general reactions in the West to the first public glimpses of the T-14 Armata tank, the first completely post-Soviet Russian design for a main battle tank. The first is to view its claims—of greater speed, maneuverability, firepower and survivability vis-à-vis anything …

By Tom Nichols A few weeks ago, I directed Harvard Extension School’s “Crisis Game,” in which students had to play out a hypothetical Cold War crisis involving nuclear weapons. The realization that a crisis could escalate to nuclear war shocked younger students who had never given much thought …

Allyson Beach As a requisite resource, water and its infrastructure are decisive targets in the self-declared Islamic State’s (IS) strategy for regional expansion in the Middle East. Although IS has not demonstrated the capacity to operate technologically intensive water infrastructure, it continues to pursue control of dams and …

Why did Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates provide a pulpit for a firebrand cleric who calls for the destrcution of Shiites, Alawites, Christians, and Jews? Oren Adaki, David Weinberg  Foreign Policy As Saudi Arabia expands its involvement in wars across the Middle East, the kingdom has …

By Vasudevan Sridharan The Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council is set to hold major talks in the presence of French President Francois Hollande over the handling of the Yemen crisis. The Sunni-dominated Council of Gulf monarchs is expected to call for a partial humanitarian truce in Yemen, at least …