Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Category Archives: Columns
Qatar standoff an opportunity to rethink GCC’s basic economic model
By : Frank Kane :: The ongoing standoff between the members of the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) and Qatar over Doha’s alleged financing of terror groups has already called into question the future of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as it
Iran’s jaw-dropping hypocrisy on Qatar crisis
By : Eyad Abu Shakra :: There is a famous saying that “in politics, there is neither a lasting friendship nor a permanent enmity, but rather a permanent interest.” It is true. The most successful policies are the most realistic
Tehran and the perils of a fragile relationship
By : Yasar Yakis :: Relations between the US and Iran have not been good for decades, but they have further deteriorated under the Trump administration and it is not clear how far this deterioration will go. Trump declared during
When truth is the first casualty
By : Dr. Majid Rafizadeh :: There is a symbiotic relationship between media in Iran and Qatar. They not only spread the narratives of their governments and paymasters, but they support each other’s arguments. It is clear that Iran’s stated-owned
From Oslo to here: The long quest for Palestinian justice
By : Baria Alamuddin :: I am continually astonished by discussions I have with otherwise well-informed people who have fixed views about the peace process formed from odds-and-ends they have read in the Western media. When it comes to comprehending
Beware ballistic missiles that can easily go nuclear
By : Maria Dubovikova :: North Korea, Iran and the Houthi rebels, Iran’s proxies in Yemen, have launched several ballistic missiles since the US warned Pyongyang and Tehran that their production of such arsenals endangered peace and stability. The two
Bad news for ‘Brand Qatar’
By : Faisal J. Abbas :: It has been two months since the diplomatic standoff with Qatar began. As it is now evident that this crisis is not going to be resolved swiftly, many questions have been raised as to
Americans tuned into the Qatar crisis
By : Stephan Shakespeare :: The crisis over Qatar has created deep diplomatic tensions in the Arab world, and they are now playing out onto an international stage. The US is, of course, a hugely significant influence on the region
The hard truth about Qatar’s ‘soft power’ failure
By : Ray Hanania :: The cost runs into hundreds of billions of dollars — but has it been money down the drain for Doha? Qatar has over the past years spent big on so-called “soft power” moves, from the
Qatar’s, Kuwait’s relations with Iran
By : Abdulrahman Al-Rashed :: Our brothers in Kuwait always seek the truth, and are very sensitive to any regional threats. Luckily, the damage Iran inflicted on Kuwait ended when a terrorist cell was discovered and its members escaped. Kuwait’s
US-Russian convergences and divergences on Syria
By : Raghida Dergham :: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has “reassured” the world that he has an accord with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Syria. Meanwhile, the US Defense Department said it will retrieve arms supplied to
Otaiba, secularization and the ideological uproar
By : Fahad Shoqiran :: Late thinker Mohammed Arkoun often complained of the vagueness of the concept of secularism when translated into Arabic. He said using the French term “laïcité” conveys the concept better than the Arabic word. Arkoun noted
Why are Jroud Arsal significant to Iran?
By : Huda al-Husseini :: Hezbollah fought and negotiated with al-Nusra Front and then swapped prisoners and corpses. As if what happened is in a state other than Lebanon but it’s in fact Lebanon and we’re particularly reminded of that
JASTA: Time to move on from unjustified lawsuits
By : Dr. Mohamed Ramady :: The issue of JASTA – or the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act – is now in the news as the Kingdom has started legal action to throw out lawsuits against it in the
Qatar crisis and the invasion of Kuwait
By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed :: Supporters of Doha’s government are trying to unjustly recall the invasion of Kuwait and falsely project it on Qatar’s current crisis. They have promoted the idea that Qatar is currently in danger like Kuwait once
Stop the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
By : Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi :: There is a verse of a poem written by the great Arab poet Abu Al-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi more than a thousand years ago that states that some facts are undeniable. In the present day, this
What does Qatar’s UN complaint mean?
By : Mohammed Al-Hammadi :: Does Qatar know what it means to enter the world of international demands and resort to the UN Security Council and international courts? I do not think Qatari officials understand this well. They think it’s
North Korea and Iran’s presidential inauguration
By : Dr. Majid Rafizadeh :: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is about to inaugurate Hassan Rouhani for his second four-year term as president. The process generally occurs in two phases. First Khamenei will hand his decree to Rouhani in
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