Is France ready to stand up to Trump on Iran?
On 26 July, the French foreign ministry issued a declaration about the package of new sanctions targeting Russia and Iran making its way through Congress…
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Energy Media Landscape: Reversing the Unflattering Image of Oil and Gas
More than 150 years after the first oil well was drilled, the global reputation of the commodity and its fellow hydrocarbon, gas, is still perceived…
Outlook for the Paris Agreement
As Founder of the Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International Foundation for Energy and Sustainable Development, it is an honor for me and a thing of…
Saudi view on OPEC deal problems
The committee to monitor the global agreement made by 24 nations to curb production held its fourth meeting this year on July 24 — this…
How Trump and Netanyahu pushed Palestinians into a corner?
Early October 2016, Misbah Abu Sbeih left his wife and five children at home and then drove to an Israeli police station in Occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem….
Blockade of Qatar is failing
It’s hard to imagine the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates thought it would go this way. Officials from their governments — as well as…
Iranians are at the borders
Eleven years have gone by since the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, which began with the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, Ehud Goldwasser and…
Next stage of Middle East conflict
With the battles of Mosul and Raqqa dislodging the Islamic State (ISIS) from its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, and the Syrian civil war becoming…
Is Bashar al-Assad winner?
When Donald Trump sits down with Vladimir Putin in Hamburg Friday, he’ll be taking an unusual posture for a big-time dealmaker—that of the suppliant, begging…
Armenia’s attack on Azerbaijani civilians
As Americans set off fireworks throughout the land on Independence Day, the Armenian military occupying the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan were using explosives of their…