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A tangled web of alliances and realignments is forming over the latest conflict in the Caucasus The […]
Abdel Bari Atwan
Abdel Bari Atwan is the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm, Arabic Independent newspaper. The established author, broadcaster and former editor of al-Quds al-Arabi was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip two years after the Nakhbah. Having left to Jordan in 1967, Atwan has lived most of his life in exile. Atwan has Four bestselling books: the country of world , the secret History of Alqaeda, after bin Laden, the last one Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate.
A concerted effort is underway to prepare public opinion for normalization with Israel In June 2006, about […]
Tensions erupt after years of steadily deteriorating relations between the two former allies Just after the second […]
Lebanese politicians browbeaten into agreeing a deal with Israel ahead of US elections After the Beirut Port […]
Trump will do anything to stay in power – including starting a ruinous Middle East war US […]
White House theatrics, Trump’s delusions and Gulf regime collusion cannot ‘end’ the Arab-Israeli conflict The missiles fired […]
Gulf rulers are mistaken if they think signing up for Israeli ‘protection’ will make them any safer […]
The UAE-Israel deal is ostensibly about peace but actually about war: against Iran — and maybe, later, […]
Why have the country’s ever-quarrelling political factions suddenly allowed France to become their arbiter? Emmanuel Macron’s second […]
The virus of fragmentation is spreading dangerously, not just between east and west but within both regions […]
Gulf rulers think they’re buying protection against Iran and Turkey, just like the Palestinians bought into the […]
Much work will be needed to turn the tentative cease-fire deal into a success on the ground […]