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'What is truly diabolical is that, while constantly accusing the Russian bear of plotting to expand, the whole policy is directed at goading it into expanding! '

US foreign policy is a cruel sport

Diana Johnstone

'Russia repeatedly objected to NATO’s eastward march'

How did we get here?

The Dome of the Rock in the Aqsa mosque compound in the old city of Jerusalem

If you can't beat them, join them!

The idea that the US faces a perilous new cold war that could grow hot at any moment

The US military, post-Afghanistan

AMISOM has been providing peacekeepers to Somalia since early 2007

The AMISOM mission in SOMALIA certainly expensive, but has it been successful?

Ismail D. Osman

Dubai Expo 2020 will be held on October 1

Why the UAE was selected for Expo 2020

Farmaajo’s four-year term in office expired on February 8

EU and US must decide if Farmajo is a friend or a foe

Ismail D. Osman

Taliban fighters stand guard inside the airport in Kabul after US troop pullout

The West must not repeat old habits of conceptual errors in Afghanistan

Ehsan Azari Stanizai

Erdogan said he had no qualm with the Taliban’s beliefs and stating that his government was in accord with them

A new role designed for Turkey: A ‘pivotal player’ in Afghanistan

Morocco's fight against extremism has proved fruitful thanks to its reintegration program

Terrorism: a death industry that is fading away thanks to a strategy seeking the ‎reintegration of former terrorists

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘Former friend’ is shattering Erdogan’s regime both at home and abroad

'The dead workers were treated like slaves'

6500 workers have died in the construction of World Cup 2022 in Qatar

Turning northern Iraq into a safe zone is highly vital for Iraq future and unity

Closing the security vacuum in northern Iraq

Protesters carry an Arabic banner that reads: "Save the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, Freedom for Palestine"

Israel’s claim to Sheikh Jarrah land

Europe's leaders should begin to place Rezaee on their radar

Is Mohsen Rezaee emerging as Iran's pragmatic leader?

"Drone strikes are causing more and more Yemenis to hate America"

Biden’s drone wars

Iran and China on March 27 signed a 25-year strategic cooperation agreement

Iraq and the Chinese-Iranian agreement

State Department spokesman Ned Price (L) listens as US special envoy for Yemen Timothy Lenderking speaks via teleconference during a news conference at the State Department in Washington

The return of high commissioners an early sign of Biden’s hubris

Haitham El-Zobaidi

David T. Fischer, US Ambassador to Morocco, stands before a US State Department-authorised map of Morocco recognising the Western Sahara as a part of the North African kingdom

US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara: A historic diplomatic masterstroke

Bouzekri Chakroune

When is Maati Monjib is going to break his silence against money laundering charges?

Maati Monjib, from human rights to money laundering

The Arab states have largely grown tired of and frustrated by the continuing Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Normalization alone is not a path for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Israeli soldiers standing atop an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) check their equipment at a military training camp near the village of Yatta

A New uprise in Palestine

The reasons behind the Armenia–UAE alliance

George Meneshian

Before the blast that ripped through Beirut on August 4, Lebanon was already a nation in crisis

Is Lebanon on the verge of a Civil War?

Prince Moulay Hicham

Columnist Abou Wael Al Riffi corrects Moulay Hicham’s analysis

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his German counterpart Heiko Maas attend a press conference in Ankara

Germany’s mission impossible in the Turkish capital

Turkey’s central bank has paid a hefty price for following Erdogan’s lead

‘Erdoganomics’ under the microscope as Turkish lira plummets

US President Donald Trump

US-Iran: an election showdown?

Tanya Goudsouzian

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (R) meets with Joe Biden in New York City, September 21, 2016

How a President Biden could remake US-Turkey ties

Morocco is still waiting for Amnesty International to provide evidence of its phone hacking accusations

Phone spying by Morocco: evidence of Amnesty International's amateurism

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