Can the US-Turkey marriage be saved?
The United States and Turkey, nominally close NATO allies, are looking more and more like an old, bickering married couple who can’t agree on much…
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Abkhazia: Looking forward to Syrian recognition
In August 2017 Syria’s capital city Damascus hosted the 59th international fair. Among the guests of the fair were Abkhaz de-facto foreign minister Daur Kove…
Trump’s real problem is with Iran, not Turkey
These days the U.S. media as well as the Turkish one are dominated by the trial of Reza Zarrab, the Iranian-Turkish gold trader who pleaded…
Obama’s fingerprints in Syria
The Nov. 28 editorial “A hug that says volumes” blamed the collapse of U.S. global leadership on President Trump’s ceding of Syria to Russian President…
Why Israel Ignores Iraq
Over the recent months, Israeli politicians, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as leading national media commentators and security officials, muse about a…
How ISIL changed the oil map of Iraq
The last three years dramatically reshaped the oil map in Iraq, OPEC’s second-largest producer. The dust from the military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq…
Theresa May makes secret visit to Iraq
Theresa May has become the first British prime minister to visit Iraq since 2008, touring a military base near Baghdad and holding talks with her counterpart…
Will Israel launch pre-emptive strike against Assad?
As the war in Syria dies down and the dust starts to settle, the enormity of Israel’s strategic mistake during the long years of conflict…
Ahmed bin Sulayem takes over presidency of the Dubai Diamond Exchange
The Dubai Diamond Exchange (‘DDE’), a DMCC (‘Dubai Multi Commodities Centre’) platform, confirmed today further to its announcement at the Dubai Diamond Conference Gala Dinner…
Is Russia afraid of losing Syria?
The fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant seems to have ended. Although the armed group is unlikely to disappear, its territorial controlhas…