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Trump Appears Poised To Restart The Iran War

The Middle East is once again teetering on the brink as Trump appears poised to reignite war with Iran

2026-05-20 04:39:11 0 Comment 22060 view

UAE’s OPEC Exit Is No Cartel Killer—It’s A Calculated Power Shift

What would an expert tell me in layman’s language, particularly about who or what really stands behind this decision?

2026-05-14 01:09:02 0 Comment 15060 view

UAE's Dollar Swap Threats Show How Brittle These US Alliances Can Be

The most striking moment in recent talks between United Arab Emirates officials and U.S. Treasury officials in Washington wasn’t the Emiratis’ suggestion of a currency swap line, but the warning they attached to it

2026-04-26 05:19:27 0 Comment 22111 view

Guterres Warns Of ‘Wider War’ As Middle East Conflict Enters Second Month

The Middle East crisis has lurched into its second month, prompting UN Secretary-General António Guterres to issue a stark warning on Thursday morning that the world is “on the edge of a wider war” with catastrophic global implications

2026-04-04 06:57:55 0 Comment 18945 view

How Massive US Footprint In The Gulf Became A Bullseye Overnight

For decades, U.S. policy toward the Middle East has revolved around a simple premise: the forward deployment of U.S. military power would deter adversaries — chiefly Iran — and, if necessary, defend host states from attack

2026-04-04 04:27:45 0 Comment 24124 view

Cracks In The Sand: Gulf Monarchies’ Economic And Geopolitical Peril

The Arab Gulf’s glittering skylines were built on a simple promise: stability in exchange for prosperity

2026-03-31 09:46:40 0 Comment 22703 view

Trump's Sahel Reset Banks On 'Sovereignty,' Guns + Minerals Deals

The State Department is conducting a new wave of outreach to three military-ruled Sahelian countries — Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger

2026-03-24 11:30:41 0 Comment 17404 view

A Preventable Crisis: U.S. Citizens Trapped As War Widens In Middle East

In Iraq, several thousand U.S. citizens remain stranded in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone—once considered the safest enclave in the country, now increasingly exposed in a region sliding toward open conflict

2026-03-18 01:34:45 0 Comment 37250 view

Muslim Brotherhood Needs To Be The Next Target After Iran's Mullahs

The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization aiming to institute sharia-based governance, has come out against the US-Israeli military operation targeting the Shiite Iranian regime, despite the Sunni-Shia divide that originated in 632 CE over who should succeed Islam's Prophet Mohammed

2026-03-11 11:59:44 0 Comment 57077 view

Erdogan's Sunni Noose: Turkey's Bid To Encircle Israel

While much of the world's attention remains fixed on Iran and its Shi'ite axis, another geopolitical realignment is taking shape — more quietly, more pragmatically, and potentially just as consequential for the US, Israel and the Middle East

2026-02-24 08:44:09 0 Comment 43557 view

Tajikistan at Forefront of International Water Agenda with Crucial Dushanbe Water Process

The Central Asian nation of Tajikistan is set to host a critical international gathering on the conservation of water at a time of increased climate change and global uncertainty

2026-02-18 03:54:31 0 Comment 35320 view

Middle Powers Are Setting The Table So They Won't Be 'On The Menu'

The global order was already fragmenting before Donald Trump returned to the White House. But the upended “rules” of global economic and foreign policies have now reached a point of no return

2026-02-14 10:51:50 0 Comment 30200 view

Selling F-35s To Turkey Guarantees A New War Against Israel

US President Donald Trump may believe that selling F-35 stealth warplanes to Turkey will help the country forge closer ties with the US at the expense of Russia

2025-12-16 02:10:36 0 Comment 74284 view

Arab Region Pushed To Limits By Climate Extremes As 2024 Smashes Heat Records

The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on Thursday, after 2024 saw unprecedented heat, destructive storms and worsening water scarcity impact some of the world’s most vulnerable communities

2025-12-05 04:56:19 0 Comment 43896 view

Sudan's Bloody War Is Immune To Trump's Art Of The Deal

For over 500 days, the world watched as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) methodically strangled the last major army garrison in Darfur through siege, starvation, and indiscriminate bombardment

2025-11-03 05:43:37 0 Comment 51603 view

Never Again: Why Israel Must Reinforce Its Borders and Its Message

Two years after the horror of October 7, 2023 — the day Hamas gunmen burst across Israel’s southern border, murdering civilians, abducting families, and burning entire communities — the world’s attention has drifted

2025-10-13 05:03:20 0 Comment 40750 view

Muslim Brotherhood: A Global Jihadist Threat

US Senator Ted Cruz, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy, on July 16 introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025

2025-09-04 05:21:52 0 Comment 102180 view

Recalibrating Alignments: Bangladesh, D-8 And Malaysia’s Foreign Policy Crossroads

In the rapidly shifting landscape of Asian diplomacy, Bangladesh’s reported interest in joining ASEAN is more than a routine regional overture — it could signal the stirrings of a deeper realignment among Muslim-majority nations

2025-08-07 09:51:11 0 Comment 66020 view

Why Al-Jazeera Should Be Designated As A Foreign Terrorist Organization

On June 18, the Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera TV network (in Arabic) broadcast another "exclusive" video of a speech by Abu Obaida, the masked spokesman of the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas

2025-07-23 06:04:57 0 Comment 75964 view

Rising Temperatures And Extreme Weather Hit Asia Hard

The WMO’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report says that 2024 was the warmest or second warmest year on record (depending on the dataset), with widespread and prolonged heatwaves

2025-07-01 02:12:56 0 Comment 55383 view