Alwaght- Recently, Turkish media reported that Alawite minority’s homes in Yalova province in northwestern Turkey have been marked “X” with red paint. Such racist moves against this minority are not unprecedented, and they in the past have been subjected to such threatening actions. This has been a source of great ...
Read More »Will Biden Side with UAE’s Bin Zayed or Ditch Him?
Alwaght- The end of Donald Trump’s presidency shifted the political observers’ focus to foreign policy even more than on domestic issues. In this area, the new President Joe Biden said during the election debates that one of the main priorities of his policy was return to the international community and ...
Read More »Why Was Netanyahu’s UAE Visit Postponed Several Times?
Alwaght- A few months after normalization of the UAE and Bahrain relations with the Israelis, Prime Minister Netanyahu has not yet been able to travel to Abu Dhabi and Manama, as his scheduled trips have been delayed after several plannings. The repeated postponement of Netanyahu’s visit to the two Arab ...
Read More »How Does Russia Look At South Yemen Developments?
Alwaght- While the Saudi efforts to restore Riyadh agreement between the resigned Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Southern Transition Council (STC) have totally failed and a new round of clashes is expected –as media on Monday reported that Hadi’s new cabinet members have fled from Aden to Saudi ...
Read More »Cold Peace? Egypt-Qatar Relations on Edge Despite Détente
Alwaght– Only a few weeks after the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council reconciliation, which ended the years-long blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain, the conditions are changing and the de-escalation efforts are experiencing chill. Following the absence of the Bahraini king from the Alula meeting ...
Read More »Arab Monarchies and Illusion of Security by Israeli Iron Dome System
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Read More »Iran FM’s Tour of Karabakh Crisis Actors: Goals, Discussion Topics
Alwaght– Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Baku on Monday as first leg of regional tour to Caucasus that will take him to Russia, Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey as well. Zarif’s visit comes as Caucasus recently has gone through a heavy war that brought about significant geopolitical changes. ...
Read More »Saudi Policy For Meeting Challenges Marred By Confusion As Biden Assumes Office
Alwaght- With Trump’s departure, the eyes are now on Riyadh and the orientation of its regional policy in the atmosphere of expected changes and developments in the relationship with the US. Although the Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan sounded upbeat in an interview with the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news network ...
Read More »Israeli Air Superiority Declining Amid Resistance Camp’s Emerging Missile Might
Alwaght- Many Israeli and foreign experts suggest that the Israeli regime is suffering from structural weaknesses when it comes to the confrontation of security and military challenges, and even worse its supremacy factors against its enemies especially the resistant groups in the region are shrinking. At the same time, its ...
Read More »Biden Administration May Have Roadmap To ISIS Revival In Iraq
Alwaght- More than two years after the end of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate in Iraq, Iraqi politicians and political factions are engulfed by waves of concerns about Washington’s plot to revive the terrorist group in their country. With a look at the US policies and actions, it seems that even ...
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