In the previous article, building on Erdogan’s threats of intervention in Gaza, I have envisaged an escalation scenario wherein the outbreak of a direct Israeli-Turkish…
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Not much of a surprise to the informed spectator, French President Emmanuel Macron called on Syria’s interim government to cooperate with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces…
People of and from [emphasis added] the Middle-East think they have a good and factual understanding of what took place in Syria — but they…
The great Desiderius Erasmus, who penned The Praise of Folly in the early years of the sixteenth century, is tremendously tormented in his grave having…
The Middle-East, for a region comprised of small to middle powers, is swarmed with arrogantly boastful leaders (religious and secular) and heads of states whose…
This week, President-elect Donald J. Trump has made an unprecedented historic comeback. Truth be told, I wasn’t very fond of the man during his first…
In the early hours of Saturday October 26, Israel has launched its ‘official’ retaliatory ‘precision strikes’ on the Iranian capital. The explosions heard across different…
Civil war, teetering economy, sporadic fuel and food crises, and a slowly imploding society, have overshadowed the lives of Syrians for more than a decade.…
Since Iran’s missile strike on the Nevatim air base on October 1, and Israel’s promised retaliation, several friends and readers have posed the following question…
As the international community holds its breath in anticipation of the imminent Israeli retaliation to Iran’s missile attack on the Nevatim air base, and continues…