September 10, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Turkey will not hesitate to shoot down any United Arab Emirates (UAE) aircraft if Turkish sovereignty is violated in the eastern Mediterranean, Al-Quds Al-Araby reported on Friday.
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia, South East Asia
Phase one trade negotiations between the United States and China recently started at the end of August amid heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing.
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia
The normalization deal between Israel and the UAE may simply unearth a longstanding covert working relationship, but it could also have important second-order effects.
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Plans to withdraw one-third of the U.S. force from Iraq indicates that exercising significant U.S influence in the country is no longer a major priority.
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
On August 18, 2020, the United States decided it would not pursue a death penalty case against two Islamic State terrorists, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, commonly referred to by their nickname ‘The Beatles.’
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia, South East Asia
The first-round between China and US, from the past couple of months, has gone to the US side, as surely and certainly a lot is happening in terms of geo-politics, a change in what is called as ‘an old guard’ is taking place, as new blocs are getting formed and …
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Missing from thoughtful decision is that the Emirates bewildering moment and the shattered Palestinian moment are due to a misrepresentation of what is called the Middle East conflict. The misrepresentation has led to a fallacious approach for rectification, and an impasse for obtaining peace with justice.
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia
Political consultants associated with Evgeny Prigozhin — the catering magnate with alleged ties to mercenaries, troll factories, and Vladimir Putin — are campaigning for the “Rodina” political party’s nominees ahead of regional parliamentary elections in Russia’s Komi Republic. Prigozhin apparently has a vested interest in seeing Rodina’s candidates succeed: first …
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September 10, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Unlike their leaders, however, the Palestinians living in Syria and Iraq do not appear to be worried about the Israel-UAE accord. These Palestinians have more existential concerns — such as providing shelter for their children and safe drinking water for their families. They are disturbed about the homes they have …
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September 10, 2020 Africa, Eurasia
Côte d’Ivoire Deadly protests erupted across country after President Ouattara announced his candidacy in presidential election scheduled for Oct, raising risk of all-out violence in coming weeks. In reversal of previous commitment to leave power, Ouattara 6 Aug said he will run for third term in presidential election scheduled for …
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