Browsing: Arabian Peninsula
[Prefatory Note: 2020 hardly began when the news reported the shocking MQ9 Reaper Drone assassination of General Qassim Soleimani on…
Since 2013, Egypt has been strengthening its naval power: this particularly regards the strategic direction of the Red Sea. In…
These regimes have a long list of ‘skeletons in their closet’, and their track record reveals no interest whatsoever in…
The tension between Oman’s outward-looking coastal regions and its religious interior came to a head in the 20th century. Would…
In the third of three columns assessing King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s legacy, Madawi al-Rasheed argues that his successor will struggle…
Two children and a brother of former Saudi intelligence officer Saad al-Jabri were detained in the kingdom in March. The…
The separatist Southern Transitional Council declared self-rule in the south of Yemen in April [File: Fawaz Salma/Reuters] After months of tension…
Three precious decades were squandered by a handful of people bound together by a school of thought that has greed,…
Without warning, tech giant Google “permanently removed” Iranian government-owned media channel Press TV UK’s YouTube channel Monday night amid increasing American hostility…
Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The crown prince of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The terror baron of the Middle…