Middle Orient

On February 12 and 13, 2023, the London-based daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a two-part interview by the daily’s chief editor, Ghassan Charbel, with Leila Khaled, a former terrorist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and a current member of the Palestinian National Council. Khaled was involved …

As the war in Ukraine drags on, Western sanctions on Russia, the world’s largest natural gas and second-largest oil exporter, have sent Europe hunting for alternatives in the Middle East and North Africa. The year-old war in Ukraine has shifted energy dynamics between Europe and the Middle East as Russia, …

Turkey is increasingly relying on airpower in its fight against the PKK. New parties have been drawn into the conflict as it spreads to new theatres in Iraq and Syria, which, for now at least, complicates potential efforts to settle things down. Early February brought a fresh demonstration of the …

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” Sun Tzu (544- 495 BCE); The Art of War. Near past: The west supported the color revolution in the Middle East for their own gain of globalization and global …

Julani refused to admit any aid across the frontlines from Damascus to Idleb, according to Athr Press. The leader of Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Muhammad al-Julani, appeared in British and American media renewing his refusal to admit the humanitarian aid convoy that Damascus prepared to relieve those affected by the …

The western sanctions weapon is not new to Syria, but since 2019 it has become a lethal one, destroying entire Syrian sectors and killing its people. Some 83 years after being employed against Germany in 1940, economic sanctions have become the most widely-used tool in Washington’s arsenal to coerce adversarial …

More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion, and subsequent occupation of the country Christopher C. Miller, a former acting head of the Pentagon, said on 9 February that senior military figures in the US should be held accountable for the failed wars in …

Le principal acquis de la visite du président iranien, Ebrahim Raïssi à Pékin va bien au-delà de la signature de 20 accords de coopération bilatéraux. Il s’agit d’un point d’inflexion crucial dans un processus historique intéressant, complexe, qui dure depuis des décennies : l’intégration de l’Eurasie. Rien d’étonnant à ce …

More than six months after the United States killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan, leadership of the terror group appears to have quietly passed to his heir apparent in Iran. A new report from the United Nations, based on member state intelligence, concludes Saif al-Adel …

The US Congress urgently needs to pass legislation introduced by the Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that will “prohibit the Biden administration from waiving Congressional sanctions that prohibit cooperation on Iran’s nuclear program.”It is stunning that the Biden Administration is offering Iran’s mullahs sanction waivers for their nuclear program while the …