As people around the globe battle the coronavirus pandemic, rounds of deadly flooding have gripped parts of the Middle East.
سهشنبه, 24 مارس , 2020Amid worldwide concerns over the new coronavirus, an age-old but now “extremely alarming” problem is developing in several countries that represents “an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods” as the start of growing season approaches for these parts of the world, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
سهشنبه, 24 مارس , 2020Japan sent a naval destroyer to the Middle East on Sunday for a rare overseas mission to ensure the safety of its ships amid lingering tension between Iran and the US.
یکشنبه, 2 فوریه , 2020One does not need to be an expert on history to realize that the map released by President Donald Trump as a deal for peace between Israel and Palestine is identical to the Bantustans of the defunct South African apartheid system.
یکشنبه, 2 فوریه , 2020The rare overseas mission follows an attack on a Japanese oil tanker and increased American pressure to play a more active role in the region.
شنبه, 28 دسامبر , 2019It’s heretical to say so, but Russia has earned its current success in the Middle East. It’s using the same mix of military and diplomatic tools that made the United States dominant in the region for so many decades. America didn’t lose this battle for influence; it surrendered.
دوشنبه, 28 اکتبر , 2019President Trump threw Middle East policy into turmoil on Monday with a series of conflicting signals after his vow to withdraw American forces from the region touched off an uprising among congressional Republicans and protests by America’s allies.
سهشنبه, 8 اکتبر , 2019Amid growing pressure, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Friday abolished a policy that restricted refugees from the Middle East and Africa, The New York Times reports.
یکشنبه, 6 اکتبر , 2019The problem for the US is that its Middle Eastern central command base is in Doha, Qatar. That’s well within range of Iran’s ability to strike. So the Americans are practicing running their operations from South Carolina, where it’s safer.
سهشنبه, 1 اکتبر , 2019Regional stability in the Middle East cannot be achieved while U.S. troops are still deployed there, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
شنبه, 28 سپتامبر , 2019President Trump just fired his third National Security Adviser John Bolton, in a move that can help him from present and future wars, and bring him closer to peace and diplomacy with America’s foes – namely Iran, North Korea, and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
چهارشنبه, 11 سپتامبر , 2019If the political science definition of “power” is the ability of a state to coerce another state to change that state’s policies, then the United States is increasingly losing its ability to do so and looking weak in the process.
دوشنبه, 29 جولای , 2019The US has authored the deployment of military personnel and resources to Saudi Arabia to provide “an additional deterrent” in the face of “emergent, credible threats” in the region.
یکشنبه, 21 جولای , 2019The United States Air Force has dispatched top-of-the-line F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time as it beefs up its forces in the Middle East amid escalating tensions with Iran.
دوشنبه, 1 جولای , 2019With predictions swirling as to what’s in the Trump administration’s so-called “Deal of the Century,” for potential peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, Jason Greenblatt, the U.S. envoy for international negotiations, gave some clues this week of what to expect.
یکشنبه, 12 می , 2019The European Union has rejected the idea of Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank, which would create chaos and violence in the Middle East, its foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
چهارشنبه, 17 آوریل , 2019Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations failed to reach consensus on key Middle East issues on Saturday as they wrapped up a meeting in France that was shaken by the absence of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
یکشنبه, 7 آوریل , 2019Mike Pompeo is returning to the Middle East to again push for action against Iran, his chief foreign policy foe. But the message of this trip, his second to the region this year, will find three very different audiences, likely with varying degrees of acceptance.
سهشنبه, 19 مارس , 2019US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to eight Middle East capitals next week for talks on security expected to focus on Yemen, Syria and Iran, the State Department announced Friday.
یکشنبه, 6 ژانویه , 2019Israel’s political turmoil isn’t just a problem for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: It’s the latest blow to President Donald Trump’s hopes to unveil a grand Middle East peace plan his son-in-law has spent almost two years on.
شنبه, 17 نوامبر , 2018