Turkey: EU should help us fight against terrorism
Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister on Tuesday urged the European Union to help Turkey in its fight against terrorism. “The EU should take action and support…
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Trump faced with wild Middle East
The election of Donald Trump as the next American president has added a major new element of uncertainty to a Middle Eastern picture that had…
Trump power and its limits
If you think that the president of the United States is the most powerful individual in the world, then worry about Donald Trump is justified….
Will Russia recognize Yazidi Kurds genocide in Iraq?
A shopping mall named Shengal — an exotic name to Russians — is located in the eastern part of Moscow. Shengal is the Kurdish name…
The Trump Era and Israel
What can we expect from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration? The positions that Trump struck during the presidential campaign were sometimes inconsistent and even contradictory. So…
Could Trump’s election cause a major shift in America’s Middle East policy?
President-elect Donald Trump’s positions on Middle East issues, if carried out, could bring yet more volatility to the world’s most combustible region. Besides vowing to…
How much is the Arab Spring cost for the region?
The Arab Spring cost $614 billion in lost growth to Arab countries, a new UN survey has found. The report, the first of its kind by a…
Iran policy of Trump
Among the foreign policy think tanks and pundits of New York and DC, few supported Trump or even countenanced the possibility of his election. Now…
Westerners think about extreme tourism in Syria – Photos
The highways of Beirut are known in the region as a plague on sanity. Dust-coated cars, busses shuttling back and forth and fragile-looking mopeds clash…
Turkey and EU in bad relationship. Migrant deal will end – Photos
An extensive 100-page report by the European body has found a number of problem areas, including the legal situation in the country which it describes…