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A new phase in the efforts that have been made to find a political solution and end the Yemeni crisis has begun with the promulgation of a presidential decree by Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, forming the new power-sharing government and...

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmed Nasser Al-Sabah said that progress has been made towards ending the Arab Gulf dispute with Qatar. In a televised statement, he said, “all parties involved in recent talks affirmed their keenness on Gulf and...

IRANIAN nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the mastermind of Iran’s clandestine nuclear program, was killed in an ambush near the capital city of Tehran, in a strikingly similar way Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian...

If there is any title for the Group of Twenty Summit that was held remotely in Riyadh, then it would be the summit of “Restoring reassurance and hope for the peoples of the world,” as was highlighted by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King...

At a time when the Democratic candidate Joe Biden is all set to assume the presidency of the United States of America, some of the American leftist media and the media around us have begun to ask some questions. This is mainly about how Biden would...

During the end of the 1970s, the region was faced with two sharp contradictory models: the Egyptian-Israeli peace, and the Khomeinist Revolution creating a “turban” state and transforming politics in the region from the art of possible into a...

If James Carville, the election strategist of Bill Clinton’s campaign who coined the famous phrase “it’s the economy, stupid,” was asked what is the phrase governing the US presidential elections in 2020, he might say, “it’s freedom,...

Who is the most prominent peace envoy to have convinced the region and its countries, to a large extent, of the necessity to establish peace with Israel? Do you think it's US envoy Brian Hook or President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared...

Whoever believes that the region has not changed after the announcement of the UAE-Bahraini-Israeli peace agreement, under the American auspices, is mistaken. To explain this scenario, we must be politically unbiased as they say you cannot look at...

The French initiative towards Lebanon and the effort exerted by French President Emmanuel Macron deserve all appreciation for being the clearest initiative, especially following the efforts led by the French president, which were crowned by two...

Since a week, I have been reading "Al-Fitna" by Kanan Makiya about the state of Iraq from 2003 till 2006, and it was amazing that whenever I finished reading a chapter of the novel and reading the news bulletins, I felt as if I was still...

I will not go into the details of the accusations against Dr. Saad Al-Jabri because they are in the jurisdiction of the concerned authorities in the State, but I will examine the political aspect that found a place in the contents of the lawsuit...

A STUDY, promoted by the Iranian lobby in the United States, headed by Vali Nasr, concluded that Washington must halt its “endless wars” in the Middle East and should withdraw its forces and bring them back to the US! The study was published by...

Lebanon has reached a dead end. All its options are difficult, and the question arises: Who will save it? Will it be the international community? Or the Arab Gulf States? Or, say, Saudi Arabia? Or Iran? I do not think one of the parties mentioned...

THE Turkish danger facing our region, from Syria to Libya through Iraq, is not represented only by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as an individual, but his ideas and they are too complicated to be summed up in a short column as he is too...