Operation Decisive Storm that has pitted a 10-country coalition against Houthi militias in Yemen supported at home by armed forces loyal to deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh and abroad by various regional parties, most saliently Iran and its Arab (...)
King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz, who passed away on 23 January, not only served as a crucial keel in Saudi Arabia, with its various internal contradictions and conflicts, but also was a keystone in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
The GCC was (...)
If 2011 was the year of Arab revolutions and uprisings in many Arab countries and 2012 and 2013 were years of testing the results and repercussions of those revolutions, then 2014 was the year of warning. It was a very stern one. It said that the (...)
Regional and international powers are working to create a coalition to combat terrorism, specifically the Islamic State (IS), as set out by UN Security Council Resolution 2170. The Syrian and Iranian regimes are moving in this direction, and Egypt, (...)
In spite of the hopes raised by the agreement on a “mechanism for the implementation of the Riyadh document” reached by the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members in their meeting on a military base near the Saudi capital on 17 April 2014, (...)
Since its inception on 25 May 1981, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has encountered difficult challenges that were instrumental in obstructing the realisation of unity, a goal that remained an aspiration of GCC members even if it had not been (...)
Yemen, like many of the other countries of the Arab Spring, appears to be fated to a period of extended instability, the worst aspect of which is that the effects of foreign intervention and foreign interests far outweigh the effects of internal (...)