Azerbaijan: A Crucial Energy Hub
The estate agent’s mantra is “Location, location, location,” which is also Azerbaijan’s challenge and opportunity. Recent developments in Azerbaijan’s neighborhood – the potential resolution of…
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PUTIN’S SECRET ARMIES WAGED WAR IN SYRIA—WHERE WILL THEY FIGHT NEXT?
In the desert of eastern Syria, not far from a town called Deir ez-Zor, there’s reportedly a pile of stones surrounding a wooden board, with an Orthodox…
Israel says forces kill Palestinian who killed Israeli rabbi
Israeli police say special forces killed a Palestinian gunman in the West Bank who allegedly killed an Israeli in a drive-by shooting earlier this month. Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said…
Orange is the new blue? Indians worried about passport reform
The ‘ECR’ stamp in the current passport ensures the safety of uneducated and unskilled Indian workers. The Indian government’s decision to do away with the…
Iraq Is Troubling The Oil Majors
Shell decides to pull the plug on Iraq. A day later, Chevron announces its return to Iraq. The oil majors are heading in opposite directions…
Turkey to extend state of emergency amid freedom concerns
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is set to extend a state of emergency for the sixth time since the failed 2016 coup attempt, worrying both…
Saudi Arabia condemns Qatari fighter jets’ interception of two UAE planes
An official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s condemnation of the interception by Qatari fighter planes of two…
U.S. troops will stay in Syria to counter ‘strategic’ threat from Iran
BEIRUT — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday committed the United States to an indefinite military presence in Syria, citing a range of policy goals…
Saudi Arabia deposits $2 bln in Yemen central bank to back currency
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a deposit of $2 billion to be paid into Yemen’s central bank on Wednesday to shore up the weak Yemeni…
Cavusoglu: US-Turkey ties may get ‘irreversibly harmed’
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said relations between Turkey and the US would be “irreversibly harmed” if Washington moves to form a 30,000-strong army in…