Blair and Bush’s attempt to reshape the Middle East lit a fire which burns to this day
Not for the first time recently, Britain woke up to find the clocks had gone back. On Wednesday when the Chilcot report was published, it…
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In Yemen, New Conflicts Raise Familiar Questions
In many ways, the political unity that Yemen achieved in its 1990 unification was an anomaly. The country’s spectacular geographic diversity has given rise to…
Is Israel Preparing for War Against Hezbollah?
How does Israel read the Middle East these days? Few details on its national security strategy are explicitly and publicly expressed. But at the annual Herzliya…
Time For U.S. State Department To Finally Listen On Bahrain
Here it comes. A Bahrain court will decide on Monday July 11 whether its largest opposition group should be formally dissolved a month after it…
Chilcot report evokes angry war memories in Middle East
Commentators in Middle East media have responded angrily to the findings of the Chilcot inquiry that the 2003 invasion of Iraq was premature and based…
Bloody Ramzan: From Turkey to Saudi Arabia
This new adaptation to digital warfare and the rise of violent incidents in the month of Ramzan displays the rise of a new ”hate ideology”…
How clashes inside Iran remake regional equations?
Largely peaceful demonstrators in the Iranian city of Isfahan called recently on their government to withdraw from Syria and concentrate its efforts instead on its…
Turkey sends Gaza aid after six-year rift with Israel ends
A Turkish ship carrying 11,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Gaza has arrived in the Israeli port of Ashdod. It is the first such shipment…
Turkey in the shadow of terror
When the media rushed to the scene of the attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, photographer Furkan Temir took a moment to mentally prepare before going…
America’s Core Middle East Interests Are Already Secure
RECENT PRESIDENTS of both parties have agreed that the United States has vital interests in the Middle East. But the region has become extraordinarily turbulent….