Can Turkey turn a crisis into an opportunity?
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB January 30, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/mycsk Turkey has a working relationship with the EU, the US and NATO, but there are also points of contention between […]
America’s ‘Suez moment’: Another strategic mistake would be its last
David Hearst 27 December 2021 President Joe Biden truly reaped a bitter harvest from the strategic foreign policy errors of four of his predecessors. But Washington would do well to […]
Four reasons US pivot from Middle East will be a slow one
YASAR YAKIS November 14, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/8m83b A shift toward the Pacific Rim has been on Washington’s agenda for almost four decades. China’s gigantic economic achievements have forced the […]
Time for the US to strike a deal with Erdogan
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB October 03, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/reu2u Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The meeting followed a show of defiance […]
Why 19th-century diplomacy may be key to the 21st
ANDREW HAMMOND September 29, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/5ktxy In the past two centuries there have been fundamentally different approaches to the institutionalization of international relations. While the postwar era invested […]
China urges NATO not to provoke military tension in Asia-Pacific
CHINA / DIPLOMACY By Global Times Published: Sep 28, 2021 Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs NATO member states have been frequently deploying aircraft to the Asia-Pacific region but the region doesn’t welcome […]
Ten lessons to be learned from the U.S. disastrous war on Afghanistan
By Andrew Korybko International August 31, 2021 – TEHRAN TIMES The U.S. panicked retreat from Afghanistan following the Taliban’s complete takeover of the country leaves many lessons to be learned […]
Urgent action needed to save Afghanistan from catastrophe
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG September 07, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/m3gzm It is now clear that the 20-year effort by the US and its European allies to turn Afghanistan into a […]
Middle East’s efforts to defuse tensions merit Western attention
ALISTAIR BURT September 06, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/6fdcp What a difference a few weeks makes. Since my highlighting, in a July column, the harsh media spotlight under which the US […]
Islamism still prime security threat to West: Blair
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair warned on Monday that “radical Islam” remained a “first-order security threat” to the world despite two decades confronting the issue across the globe. (AFP) […]
Operation of Kabul airport by Turkey, Qatar under discussion: NATO
BY REUTERS BRUSSELS DIPLOMACY SEP 03, 2021 3:57 PM GMT+3NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg gestures during an online news conference following a NATO Foreign Ministers video meeting following developments in Afghanistan at the NATO […]
G7 flexes its political muscles again
ANDREW HAMMOND August 28, 2021 22:29217 Short Url https://arab.news/gjney While the G7 was created in the 1970s to monitor developments in the world economy, last week’s crisis meeting of Western leaders […]
Opinion: Germany unworthy of Afghans’ trust
Germany’s military ended efforts to rescue people from Afghanistan, and many German groups’ Afghan staff members have been left behind. It’s a betrayal that has caused irreparable damage, writes DW’s Maissun Melhem. As I watched the news of the last German military plane taking off from Kabul airport, I was reminded […]
Turkish rulers have no way out but to turn towards Asia: Turkish attorney
By Mohammad Ali Saki International May 18, 2021 – TEHRAN – A Turkish lawyer calls for forming a regional bloc to confront the United States, claiming “it is not impossible […]
A Chronicle of German Failures in Afghanistan
“Takeover of Kabul Unlikely Before 9/11”A Chronicle of German Failures in Afghanistan German diplomats only found out by chance that their American counterparts were evacuating from Kabul and they were blindsided by the Taliban’s rapid advance in the capital. But internal documents show that Berlin ignored urgent warnings.By Matthias Gebauer, Konstantin von […]
A Trillion Dollar Illusion. The Entirely Predictable Failure of the West’s Mission in Afghanistan
A Trillion Dollar IllusionThe Entirely Predictable Failure of the West’s Mission in Afghanistan In early July, I met with a leading Taliban military commander. I asked when his fighters would […]
How to contain the crisis in Afghanistan
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEGAugust 16, 2021 23:08573 Short Url https://arab.news/63yec As events unfold rapidly in Afghanistan, it is important to keep in mind what still can and should be done to […]
We All Lost Afghanistan
Two Decades of Mistakes, Misjudgments, and Collective Failure By P. Michael McKinley August 16, 2021 As Afghanistan tumbles into Taliban hands, the avalanche of recrimination and outright condemnation of the Biden […]
“Staying Would Be Suicide”With Departure of NATO Troops, the Taliban Gains Ground in Afghanistan
“Staying Would Be Suicide”With Departure of NATO Troops, the Taliban Gains Ground in Afghanistan In recent days, both the American and German forces have withdrawn from Afghanistan. The government in […]
‘US really messed it up’: PM Imran on Afghanistan situation
Dawn.com Published July 28, 2021 – Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the United States “really messed it up in Afghanistan” as he questioned the American motive of Afghan invasion in […]