MIDDLE EAST
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Qatar: An ambitious foreign policy?
By Azfar Mohammad The announcement on June 5,2017 by Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates & Bahrain to cut diplomatic ties with…
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Israel’s changing periphery
By Azfar Mohammad The tiny Jewish state of “Israel,” which was formed in 1948 through the mass influx of persecuted Jewish…
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USA, Russia in talks over “safe zone” in Syria
By Abdul Ruff None can predict as to how long the dirty war in Syria sponsored by foreign powers led…
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Saudi-Qatar crisis: Is it a conspiracy theory around oil, power or arms?
By Sourajit Aiyer They say money makes the world go round; and nowhere is this more ingrained than in the battles…
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President Trump to visit Saudi Arabia
By Abdul Ruff Undoubtedly, US-Arab relations, in particular US-Saudi ties, have been strained badly for quite some time now because…
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Trump’s redemption at Putin’s expense?
By Ben Tanosborn Donald Trump may have been told by his advisers that launching fifty-nine Tomahawk missiles, at a $15…
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Syria: Chemical weapon use, destruction of children, the ethical vacuum
By Rene Wadlow At the heart of this growing phenomenon of mass violence and social disintegration is a crisis of…
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Saudi king’s “Clash of Civilizations”, convergence with Indonesia’s hypocrisy and opportunism
By Julia Suryakusuma When my older sister who lives in Germany came to Indonesia recently, we gave her the royal treatment.…
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India-Israel defense cooperation
By Maimuna Ashraf Israel, followed by Russia and US, is India’s third largest defense supplier and the bilateral defense cooperation…
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Trump’s perception of Russia and Putin
By Abdul Ruff Among all bilateral ties, the ones between the Cold War foes play most significant place in world…
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