The new strategic partnership of the US, Australia, and Britain in the Indo-Pacific region will be seen as a consolidation of Anglo-Saxon cooperation rather than a multilateral effort by the Western alliance, writes Hussein Haridy
On 12 March, newly (...)
I am writing this article on the very day, 20 years ago, when the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington came under terrorist attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists using three civilian airliners.
A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight (...)
On 31 August, the United States ended the longest war in the history of the American Republic when the last US soldier left Afghanistan.
The moment was not one of jubilation and the declaration of victory, however, and nor was it one where moral and (...)
Baghdad hosted a Conference for Cooperation and Partnership on 28 August, a first of its kind to bring together various Arab countries with Iran, Turkey and France. The purpose was to reduce regional tensions in order to tackle, in a collective (...)
The scenes coming out of Kabul last week after the Taliban reached the Afghan capital and the president of the country fled with dozens of senior officials have shaken world opinion.
In the meantime, the US and its NATO allies have begun evacuating (...)
Over the last few days, the Taliban have swept across Afghanistan and taken control of Kabul, the capital, and the second and third-largest cities in the country, Kandahar and Herat. The rapid advance of the Taliban has taken the international (...)
Who could have predicted or even imagined for a second that after 20 years of war in Afghanistan the Taliban would be more entrenched than ever in the country and gaining in the international legitimacy that was denied them before the US decided to (...)
In a speech at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, US President Joe Biden said on 27 July that Chinese President Xi Jinping was in "deadly earnest" about China's becoming the most powerful military force in the world by 2040 as well (...)
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman travelled to China to hold talks in the Chinese city of Tianjin with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Deputy Foreign Minister Xie Feng on 25-26 July following stops in Tokyo and Seoul.
In Tokyo, Sherman (...)
The UN Security Council convened on 8 July at the request of Egypt and Sudan to discuss the situation that has arisen in the Horn of Africa and the Nile Basin relating to differences among Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia regarding the absence of a binding (...)
On 1 July, the United States troops in Afghanistan handed over Bagram, the largest US and NATO airbase in Afghanistan, to Afghan troops. The US withdrawal from the country is expected to be over by the end of next month, 11 days before the date (...)
Back in September 2020, there were some positive statements by Turkish officials towards Egypt, and these led many people to believe that relations between the two countries could be restored.
In the following months, the rate at which such (...)
Six months into his first term in office, US President Joe Biden flew to Europe in early June to attend four summit meetings with the aim of reclaiming America's leadership in the world and reaffirming America's commitment to its allies in NATO and (...)
From June 2007 onwards, the month Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip after staging a coup against the Palestinian Authority (PA), Egypt has been trying to end what is commonly known as the "division," or, if you will, the "separation" between the (...)
Signalling a major change in its approach to the situation in the Gaza Strip, Egypt announced last month that it would contribute half a billion dollars to the reconstruction efforts in Gaza in the wake of the latest Israeli aggression, the fourth (...)
Building and consolidating the ceasefire agreement of 22 May between Hamas and Israel has become a challenge for the international community.
The UN Security Council, after three unsuccessful attempts from 10 to 21 May, released a statement on 23 (...)
After 11 days of the unrelenting bombardment of buildings, schools, hospitals and roads, the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip came to an end on 21 May. Egypt succeeded in pushing the Israelis and Hamas to accept a ceasefire agreement in (...)
Last September, former US president Donald Trump hosted in great pomp the signing of the first "Abraham Accord" between the United Arab Emirates and Israel. The accords were meant to herald a new era of peace. It was unprecedented for a Gulf country (...)
On 16 January, Chair of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree calling for general and presidential elections in the Occupied West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem on 22 May and 31 July this year, (...)
Negotiations for the parallel return of both the United States and Iran to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iran nuclear deal, of July 2015 have been going on in Vienna, with an Iranian official source saying that the talks have (...)
After 20 years of an apparently permanent and substantial US military presence in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden announced on 14 April that American troops would commence withdrawing from the country on 1 May and that the withdrawal would be (...)
For untold centuries, the Nile River has been the quiet and enduring lifeline of millions of people who have throughout the ages inhabited its banks, building civilisations and living peacefully with each other and benefiting from its waters without (...)
Three major developments took place in the Middle East last week. Taken together, they transform the region from a strategic point of view.
The first was a declaration by the Saudi foreign minister that relations between his country and Israel would (...)
Last Thursday, new US President Joe Biden entered the East Room at the White House in Washington for his first press conference after 65 days in office. Those watching the one-hour event will have seen that the changes at the White House after the (...)
The Biden administration considers China and how to manage its emergence as a superpower a top strategic priority for the US. This stand does not differ much from the positions taken by preceding US administrations, whether Republican or (...)