Geopolitics

According to the US magazine National Review, Washington should accept an uncomfortable truth: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is pursuing the right strategy in Syria.  Accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stance on Syria is an uncomfortable necessity that Washington should acknowledge if it wants to degrade and destroy Daesh, journalist Jay …

Arab foreign ministers on Sunday accused Iran of interfering in the affairs of other Middle East states and undermining regional security, as officials met at an emergency Arab League session to discuss escalating tensions in the region. The crisis between the Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and …

Neither a strong US nor a strong Europe threaten each other, however for the US, the danger is not a Europe that becomes too strong, but the one that is too weak; and it is definitely going to weaken in 2016, according to American political analyst Joseph S. …

By Eric Zuesse The Saud royal family are by far the world’s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world’s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his (Aramco’s) 260 billion barrels of oil reserves …

Supported by Russian air strikes, the Syrian Army has reportedly managed to regain control of a spate of strategic areas in the western province of Latakia. With the help of Russian air strikes, the Syrian Army and the country’s National Defense Forces (NDF) won back an array of strategic areas …

In the aftermath of the downing of the Su-24 by two Turkish F-16s, Turkey absolutely without doubt miscalculated on shooting down the Russian jet fighter as  Ankara thinks the act would preserve a “safe status” for Turkey from terrorist attacks by ISIS, others by being anti-Russian, beside that …

By MICHAEL CROWLEY The crisis over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a pro-Iranian Shiite cleric has brought President Barack Obama’s long-troubled relationship with the Saudi royals to a new low. U.S. officials said Obama wants to reassure Saudi Arabia that his July nuclear deal with Iran doesn’t mean that …

James Dorsey Scholars, policy pundits, policymakers, and journalists have identified any number of reasons for a crisis in the Middle East and North Africa that, starting with the 2011 popular revolts, has swept the region; toppled leaders in four countries – Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen; prompted Saudi-led …

The timetable for a Syrian political transition, which leaves President Bashar Assad in power for at least another year, will upset the United State’s traditional Arab allies, former US Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey said. In December, the UN-sponsored International Syria Support Group (ISSG) reached an agreement on a …