UAE expats sent $1.4 bln back home during Eid
Expatriate workers in the United Arab Emirates – who make up over 80 percent of the country’s population of 8.5 million – sent around $1.36…
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Can Bahrain count on Moscow to fill Washington’s shoes?
Since 2011, much analysis on Bahrain has focused on its crackdown on Arab Spring activism, the US military presence in the kingdom and Manama’s role in…
Demanding Order, El-Sissi Turns to Military to Rebuild Egypt
During two years in office, Egypt’s general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has sought to impose a military-style discipline to end years of turmoil and has turned to…
Deadly air strikes continue across Syria despite truce
Air strikes have killed at least 22 people in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, as a government-announced ceasfire entered its third and final day and pro-government…
Why didn’t Khamenei condemn bombings in Saudi Arabia?
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been quick at denouncing terrorist attacks targeting Paris, the Boston Marathon, or 9/11. Nevertheless, Khamenei – who, as…
VIDEO: Syria Army Liberates Al-Mallah Farms Region, cuts only road for terrorists to Aleppo
Army and Armed Forces units continued carrying out counter-terrorism operations in Syrian provinces, establishing control over new areas in Aleppo. In Sweida: An army unit,…
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…
Turkey Changes Tack on Foreign Policy to Win Back Friends
Turkey’s bid for regional greatness began with a vitriolic squabble with Israel in 2009 and, after a series of disasters, ended with a breakdown of…
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…
The story of a girl married at 11 tracks the horrors of Yemen’s war
Yemen: Child marriages have long been woven into Yemen’s social fabric, driven largely by poverty, as in many parts of the world. But before the…