MIDDLE EAST
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The threats of triumph over Daesh
By Mala Bakhtiar Today, after Peshmarga forces recaptured the suburbs of Mosul, the Iraqi armed forces recaptured the city of Mosul,…
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The Kurdish attempt for independence and reactions of international and Middle Eastern actors
By Farhang Faraydoon Namdar To this day Middle East has been world’s most contentious region for the past hundred years…
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Iraqi Kurdistan in the brink of an independence referendum and the tumultuous political situation
By Farhang Faraydoon Namdar Ostensibly most of the Kurds tend to be hardliners of their referendum decision, this Tuesday a…
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Cyber attacks and the Middle East
By Muhammad Sarmad Zia This June saw the severance of ties of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt with Qatar which…
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How stable would post-ISIS Iraq be?
By Farhang Faraydoon Namdar Haidar Al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister visited Mosul and declared retaking of Mosul from ISIS after a…
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Is the Iraq-Kurdistan’s referendum a declaration of war against Iran and Turkey? Or another catastrophe for the Kurds?
By Farhang Faraydoon Namdar and Aran Ghafoor Ahmad Iraqi Kurdistan will hold an independence referendum in 25th September, 2017. This has…
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India’s Israel policy: Poised for a normative shift
By Michael Bender It is no secret that India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (aka the BJP) has traditionally had a favorable…
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The Gulf crisis: An Analysis
By Sadia Kazmi The escalation of crisis in the Gulf is not a sudden development but sure is quite rapid. …
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Turkey in Trump’s Middle East and a few suggestions
By Damien Dean After it became clear that Donald Trump would take the presidential seat in the United States, countries in…
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The paradox of a “Rentier State”
By Azfar Mohammad A topic of widespread global debate and concern today in the intellectual circles around the world focusses…
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