Crude tactics: Russia and Saudi Arabia are at war over oil prices
Their game of chicken has hit world markets almost as hard as coronavirus has
Shaken Saudis hedge their bets on détente with Iran
Saudi Arabia is hitting the brakes on normalization with Israel
Ten years on, the Arab Spring has only benefited the Islamists
The legacy of the revolution is hopelessness and helplessness
The ‘Iran Spring’ delusion
The democracy junkies are at it again — craving another fantasy revolution in a country they don’t understand
Iran no longer alone
The American strategy of isolating and dividing Tehran has just been exploded
The Soleimani assassination is Donald Trump’s biggest gamble yet
Will Trump go down in history as the president who started World War III?
Trump’s common-sense response to the Saudi shooter
The Saudi Arabia of today is not the Saudi Arabia of 2001
The story behind Donald Trump’s fake withdrawal from Syria
Washington’s hawks have Trump exactly where they want him
The death of al-Baghdadi comes at the perfect time for Donald Trump
Trump will hope to be known as the leader of the free world who dealt Isis that final, fatal blow
When will the Syria conversation turn to Trump’s ‘betrayal’ of Israel?
The media mantra of ‘Trump betrayed the Kurds’ will soon make way for ‘Trump betrayed Israel’
Pulling US troops out of Syria will prove to be the right decision
Donald Trump, peacemaker?
The alliance between America and Saudi Arabia is over
We are witnessing the beginning of a new geopolitics in the Middle East
What Syria should teach us about Venezuela
The louder Washington calls for Nicolás Maduro’s ouster, the more likely it is that he will survive
Is a hanged child rapist part of the persecuted LGBT minority in Iran?
According to the western media, yes
Ignore the hawks, Trump’s Syria withdrawal is bold and brave
It makes a conflict with Iran less likely
Jamal Khashoggi is the right TIME Person of the Year – for all the wrong reasons
Khashoggi represented everything that is repressive and repugnant about journalism in the Arab world. Why is he so honored?
Has Saudi Arabia just pivoted towards Russia?
Why Trump is right to stand by Saudi Arabia
The media’s hypocrisy over Jamal Khashoggi stinks. The president is wise to ignore it
What Mohammed bin Salman did next
After the Khashoggi murder, the Saudi regime seems curiously pliant to western interests
Trump’s Iran agenda is starting to backfire
Following the Jamal Khashoggi story, the US-Saudi-Israel alliance is not gaining traction
Jamal Khashoggi was no fighter – but he was a turncoat
It would be surprising if Trump’s Middle East policy is determined by the murder of a Muslim Brotherhood activist who happened to write an occasional column for the Washington Post
How Trump cleans up the Saudi mess
It’s a murky business. But the President can again prove his diplomatic skill
What the media aren’t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi
The dissident’s fate says a lot about Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
When it comes to Iran, Trump is surprisingly impotent
Post-Vietnam, the US has acted militarily like the proverbial school-yard bully, picking fights only with the weaklings who can’t fight back.
Trump escalates the anti-Iran rhetoric. But why now?
If we learned anything from the so-called Arab Spring, it’s that the victors in that part of the world are never the pro-Western ones we bet on.
