Geopolitics

The Saudi-led coalition said on Monday that a ceasefire in Yemen will begin the following morning instead of at midnight as earlier announced, as warring parties prepared for UN-brokered peace talks in Switzerland. The coalition which launched an air campaign against the Houthi militia and its allies in …

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar have a unique opportunity to re-shape the future of post-Gaddafi Libya, but instead they are fuelling an insurgency in the North African region, US experts Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagner note. Since toppling of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi the UAE and Qatar …

The Aegean Sea incident with a Russian destroyer makes it obvious that Turkey should be ousted from NATO; meanwhile, Western governments are pretending they are blind, say the readers of Western Media. Readers are outraged with Turkey’s reaction to the Sunday incident with a Turkish fishing seiner approaching the Russian Smetlivy …

“Russia bombing Syria will lead to further radicalization and increased terrorism”. Prime Minister David Cameron, 4th October 2015. How desperately Prime Minister Cameron has been yearning to bomb the Syrian Arab Republic. In August 2013 when his aim was defeated in Parliament by a 285-272 vote, his vision …

Chinese and American officials are engaged in quiet, but intense behind the scenes discussions about a greater role for China in bringing stability to the Muslim world, through targeted investments in job-creating infrastructure projects in war-torn regions of Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. The Obama …

It should go without saying that the internal political processes of a sovereign country belongs to the people of that country, and no-one else. Nevertheless, as Washington insists on a prerogative to determine who can or cannot lead another country, some background on Bashar al Assad and the …

John V. Whitbeck The Western world has reacted to the “terrorist” shooting spree in Paris with near-hysteria, immediately intensifying its own lethal violence in the Middle East. Israel is branding as a wave of “terrorism” the continuing suicidal attacks by hope-deprived Palestinian children armed only with knives and …

The aggressiveness of Turkish foreign policy is something new. It goes back to 2009 when, at Davos, President Erdoğan insulted Shimon Peres, then Israel’s president, using the Turkish form of “you” that is normally used for dogs, and accusing him of atrocities in Gaza. That went down very …

Recent meeting between Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani gave rise to a new rhetoric in Turkey: Turkey will be able to meet any shortfall in Russian gas supplies with new imports of Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG). Any new LNG contracts signed with Qatar, …