Middle Orient

General Michael Kurilla, the commander of US Central Command, recently conducted a visit to Syria during which he toured the Al-Hol and Al-Roj Displaced Persons Camps situated in the northeastern region of the country. Around the same timeframe, unfortunate incidents occurred as a result of Russian air raids targeting an …

The attacks by the Fatah-affiliated terrorists came days after The Washington Post published a story from Balata refugee camp, near Nablus, in which its correspondents romanticized members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, even documenting them as they visit their barber for a haircut. The “fighters” The Washington Post is referring …

In a historic South Africa BRICS summit move, BRICS – the association of five major emerging economies, has extended invitations to six more nations: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE, and Argentina. While some laud this expansion as a step towards creating a multipolar world, others are concerned that …

Anti-government protests in government-held areas have been driven by a fuel price hike on top of the generally dismal economic situation in war-torn Syria. Anti-government protests in southern Syria continued on Thursday, the fifth day in a row, with demonstrations spreading to other parts of the country. In Suwayda, a …

Hakan Fidan chose Iraq for his first official visit as Turkey’s new foreign minister, but the visit appeared to yield little progress on long-standing disputes between Ankara and Baghdad. During his first official visit to Iraq as Turkey’s new foreign minister, Hakan Fidan on Wednesday called on Baghdad to list …

US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking called on the Iran-backed rebels to “seize this unprecedented opportunity” to sit down with the Yemeni government. The United States on Wednesday urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels to negotiate with the country’s Saudi-backed government to resolve the near-decade-long civil war. US Special Envoy for …

The Iranian and Chinese presidents stressed the need to bolster bilateral cooperation and the trend of multilateralism especially within the framework of BRICS. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS+ Summit on Thursday to discuss bilateral ties and international …

There seems to be an unusual scramble in the Biden administration’s West Asia (Middle East) policy, most prominently in its apparent rush to accomplish a normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia. For the United States (US), both external and internal factors impinge on this seemingly hurried approach to strike a …

Changing allegiances, regional ambitions, and ideological disputes have long shaped geopolitics in the Middle East. Woven into the fabric of the complex chronicles of the regional state of affairs is the tension between the Gulf States and Egypt on one side and Turkey on the other. Historically, however, these countries …

Introduction Although it has been five years since the Islamic State (ISIS) was defeated in Iraq, it appears that the danger to the Christians in the country remains, and is in fact escalating. In the past two decades, the Christian community has suffered persecution and instability and has not managed …