GCC Secretary General Nayef Falah Al-Hajraf said the five days of meetings will “contribute to enhancing GCC-Chinese relations.” Foreign ministers from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman began a visit to China on Monday for five days of meetings aimed at deepening relations between Beijing and the Gulf region, the …

Following normalization with the UAE in November, Erdogan plans to pursue reconciliation with Saudi Arabia next month, pressed by financial woes at home, as both sides appear ready to leave the Khashoggi affair behind. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is gearing up for a fence-mending visit to Saudi Arabia next …

At the onset, 2021 appeared to be another ordinary year, one of unrelenting Israeli occupation and continued Palestinian misery. While much of that remained true, the dynamics of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were challenged by an unprecedented sense of popular unity among Palestinians, not only in the occupied East …

Man kann dem Kasachstan-Diktator Nursultan Nasarbajew vieles vorwerfen, aber er hat stets auf eine (loyale) Distanz zu Russland geachtet. Sein früherer Außenminister und heute Präsidenten-Strohmann Kassim Tokajew sagte mir einmal in Interview, Kasachstan betrachte die „Eurasische Gemeinschaft“ unter Russlands Führung nur als Wirtschafts- und nicht als politische Union. Damit ist …

Похоже, что и вправду на волне мирных социально-политических протестов в Казахстане кто-то очень могущественный решил воспользоваться ситуацией и ввел в Алма-Ату (допустил появление в Алма-Ате) каких-то бандитов, которые учинили там погром. За ними мог стоять Назарбаев или его люди, чтобы вернуться к полноценной власти, Токаев, чтобы избавиться от Назарбаева, еще …

The speed with which Russia dispatched troops this week to help quell violent demonstrations in neighboring Kazakhstan is testimony to the Kremlin’s recurring fear of “color revolutions,” say Western diplomats and analysts. Moscow, they say, must have been horrified by how quickly the protests spread in Kazakhstan, long seen as …

NATO Foreign Ministers held an extraordinary virtual meeting on Friday (7 January 2022) to discuss Russia’s continued military build-up in and around Ukraine, and the implications for European security. Speaking following the meeting, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, “Russia’s aggressive actions seriously undermine the security order in Europe. NATO …

The United States is accusing Russia of trying to “gaslight” the world regarding tensions with Ukraine, continually seeking to portray Kyiv as the aggressor even as Moscow plans to mobilize as many as 300,000 troops for a potential invasion. The accusation came Friday from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, …

The administration of US President Joe Biden has rejected a media report that the US is ready to propose scaling back troop deployments and military exercises in Eastern Europe next week in talks with Russia. Quoting a current Biden administration official and two former American national security officials familiar with …

The administration of US President Joe Biden has rejected a media report that the US is ready to propose scaling back troop deployments and military exercises in Eastern Europe next week in talks with Russia. Quoting a current Biden administration official and two former American national security officials familiar with …