It certainly involves more than watching a carefully staged press conference and then struggling to wrap one's mind around the very far-fetched idea of the Taliban with a new and modern mindset. Nor does the other side of the equation - Washington, (...)
Reconstruction is a term that will keep popping up in the foreseeable future in connection with recent events in the Palestinian territories, Gaza in particular. It will certainly convey a sense of hope for the Palestinians. But the few days since (...)
In March 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was attending a conference on the occasion of the Istanbul mayoral elections. The Turkish capital is one of the strongholds of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), and it is where (...)
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) held in power in Ethiopia for nearly 30 years since it led the overthrow of the military dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991. After TPLF leader Meles Zenawi assumed the premiership, he and his (...)
In Libya, which is customarily treated one-dimensionally as a case of sharp polarisation between the eastern and western parts of the country (a reductionism that is perhaps intentional on the part of some stakeholders), the south has reared its (...)
The current Egyptian political order began in 2014, a year after the 30 June Revolution that overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood regime. The new order rectified and supported the process of transition and change that was launched by the January 2011 (...)
Idlib province in Syria has a population of about four million. Around half of them are native to the province. The majority of the other half are displaced persons who ended up there, voluntarily or not, and who enjoy relative safety as a result of (...)
In the Arab coalition's operation to gain control over the port of Hodeida, elite forces from the UAE assumed the brunt of the offensive on the ground, alongside some Yemeni army forces that Abu Dhabi had trained and equipped for such missions in (...)
In the Arab coalition's operation to gain control over the port of Hodeida, elite forces from the UAE assumed the brunt of the offensive on the ground, alongside some Yemeni army forces that Abu Dhabi had trained and equipped for such missions in (...)
“Militant terrorism” is much more complex than was once believed. Recent developments in the phenomenon, especially in terms of infrastructure, sphere of operations and the proliferation of militant organisations, have made it clear that previous (...)
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“Militant terrorism” is much more complex than was once believed. Recent developments in the phenomenon, especially in terms of infrastructure, sphere of operations and the proliferation of militant organisations, have made it (...)
In August 2015, the Arab League in Cairo was the venue for a series of meetings to prepare the final draft of a protocol to create a “Joint Arab Force”, as it was called at the time. Prior to the meetings, Arab heads-of-state had instructed their (...)
The Hamas movement in Gaza was quick to express its “gratitude” and “deep appreciation” to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and to laud Turkey's “official and popular efforts to ease the blockade on Gaza” following the reconciliation agreement (...)
“We will export our revolution to the entire world. So that everyone may know why we carried out the revolution.”
These were the words of Iran's new leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, speaking on 11 February 1980 before hundreds of thousands of his (...)
The legitimate and predictable question that arose last month was what would be the anticipated terrorist response to Russia's military intervention in Syria. It is a question directed not only at security and intelligence agencies throughout the (...)
Security was, without doubt, one of the most important concerns and fears of the current government while organising the parliament elections. It is an acceptable concern within a volatile security situation that witnesses numerous terrorist attacks (...)
In a CBS interview on the eve of the inauguration of the last but one session of the UN General Assembly, President Barrack Obama described the Islamic State (IS) group as a mid- to long-term threat and added that the US could not limit the numbers (...)
During a meeting of municipal council heads in Israel in May, Major General Sami Turgeman, commander of the IDF Southern Command, discussed his assessment of the situation in Gaza in light of the last Israeli war against Hamas and possible future (...)
Last Tuesday, Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany) signed an accord on the Iranian nuclear programme, bringing to a close a 21-month marathon of intense negotiations.
With the announcement of the (...)
On 26 August 2012, at exactly 10:30am, Ibrahim Oweida Abu Youssef was assassinated by an explosive device planted on the route to his house in the town of Khariza in Al-Hasna City, south of Al-Arish according to a statement by Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis (...)
To mark the beginning of Ramadan, the Egyptian presidency decreed an amnesty for 165 persons who had been convicted on various charges. The amnesty was not solely linked to the religious occasion. The presidency had received numerous appeals from (...)
I believe that the Egyptian defence minister's visit to Russia in March established a complete set of shared opinions between the two sides from the military standpoint. The word ‘complete' is apt here, as the meetings that preceded it were (...)
Last week, the Sinai Bedouin tribes took a major step in the fight against terrorism and the armed violence that have gripped the Sinai since 28 January 2011. The step acquires particular significance as it is the first time such an action has (...)
The crime that took place in front of and inside the Itihadiya Palace, a few months after Mohamed Morsi's rule, raised a sort of panic and early concern for a wide number of Egyptians. Several court rulings have recently been issued against the (...)
Was the attack on Charlie Hebdo in the French capital just a coincidence? Or was it a plan to threaten anyone who mocks Islam? According to eyewitnesses of the attack, while firing their guns, the attackers were shouting that they had avenged the (...)