Dalal Saoud: The growing friendship between Lebanon and Turkiye
Relations between Lebanon and Turkey recently underwent a significant shift, driven by the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime,...
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Rome’s Libya strategy between investment and rival powers
The opening of the Misrata Free Zone–Rome Business Forum marks the latest sign of Italy's growing economic engagement with Libya....
Cairo and Washington support Libyan sovereignty
Egypt has welcomed renewed US efforts to move Libya’s stalled political process forward after Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed the...
Martin Jay: The NATO summit has turned into a circus
Bombing Iran during the NATO summit in Ankara was surely a tactical move, in Trump’s mind, to show everyone in...
Raghida Dergham: NATO summit in Turkey will confirm Erdogan’s growing influence
The upcoming NATO summit hosted by Ankara is not merely another routine meeting of a military alliance accustomed to reviewing...
Martin Jay: Can Turkey revive a struggling NATO?
Can there be anything more farcical than the recent visit of the NATO Secretary General to the White House? Mark...
The new EU migration Pact and the battle for influence in Libya
On Friday 12 June the new European Pact for Asylum and Migration entered into force. EU is seeking to rebuild...
Mamdouh alMuhaini: Could a unified Arab security force ever work?
It is natural, during major crises like the one we are experiencing now, for new ideas to emerge or for...
Dr Sinem Cengiz: Turkiye navigating between Washington and Tehran
With the US-Israel and Iran war now a week old, three significant developments have occurred that reveal how Turkiye is...
Emails detail Prince Andrew’s role in Epstein’s Libya plan
Emails released by US authorities appear to show that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor sought to help Jeffrey Epstein arrange contact with the...
Tim Chattell: Turkey’s defence deal with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
On 9 January, Bloomberg reported that Turkey was ‘likely’ to join the defence pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and...
Martin Jay: after Greenland, Trump is pulling a new stunt in Iran
Trump’s recent retreat on Greenland is interesting in that it was the jittery bond market and his own lacklustre poll...
Eyad Abu Shakra: Venezuela and Trump’s “offensive political realism”
The world woke up to momentous developments in Venezuela on January 3rd. Despite their gravity, however, they were not unexpected....
Martin Jay: The ‘Russian threat’ narrative conceals Ukraine’s graft
If there has ever been a twisted dichotomy of logic, it was always the West calling for bigger defence spending...
Germany okays voluntary army service to boost numbers
Germany's coalition government has approved a voluntary military service model in a bid to boost its army numbers, amid rising...
