With French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement on 15 April that he had convinced US President Donald Trump to renounce his previously declared plans to withdraw from Syria as soon as possible, two interrelated questions loomed.
The first is (...)
With French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement on 15 April that he had convinced US President Donald Trump to renounce his previously declared plans to withdraw from Syria as soon as possible, two interrelated questions loomed.
The first is (...)
The Qatari revolt against the established principles of mutual relations within the framework of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), as manifested in its actions following the US president's visit to Riyadh and the summit meetings in which Qatar (...)
‘We are with the Arab Spring but we are not with this spring of violence, war, destruction and killing. This is turning to winter'
— Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai
Although the revolutionary wave that has swept many Arab countries has not yet received (...)
Since returning to power after the fall of the Ehud Olmert government in early 2009, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been persistent in his attempts to force his vision of the Middle East on Washington, and this has brought him to (...)
When Iranian President Hassan Rouhani assumed office 4 August, he assumed the responsibility — for which he was elected — for reviving the Iranian reform project and rehabilitating the moderate political trend in Iran. Considerable hopes were vested (...)