Middle East
American universities need to chop the hand that feeds them tyrants’ cash
How can politically correct universities take money from Mohammed bin Salman?
Erdogan is building a new Turkish empire
Can the Turkish-US alliance survive Turkey’s play for regional dominance?
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
Telling the truth about Jamal Khashoggi is not a smear campaign
Saudi trolls have been active in casting aspersions on Khashoggi, no doubt. But does that mean Khashoggi was nothing but a cuddly liberal? Clearly not
Why is the media ignoring the most glaring questions about Jamal Khashoggi?
Killing the journalist was utterly unjustified. But there are aspects of the columnist’s past that merit probing
How Trump cleans up the Saudi mess
It’s a murky business. But the President can again prove his diplomatic skill
Let’s talk about how the Turkish government deals with dissidents abroad
Are Erdogan’s efforts to apprehend members of the Gulenist movement really so different from what the Saudis are alleged to have done?
Wrestling with the Saudis
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi has piled pressure on Vince McMahon
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
The EU are desperate to salvage the Iran deal. It isn’t working
American sanctions are forcing companies worldwide to choose between Iran and the US
Welcome to Trump Country: Israel
Unlike their liberal cousins in America, Jews in Israel much prefer the Donald to his predecessor
Trump’s phony anti-globalism should fool no-one
The President recognises the political utility of pretending he has instituted a hard philosophical break from prior administrations
In Idlib, the final chapter in Syria’s civil war has begun
There are ominous signs that the regime is planning a chemical attack
Why ‘we’ got Turkey wrong (and China. And Russia. And Iraq)
Another foreign policy item bites the dust
How Benjamin Netanyahu made the most of the Trump era
The two share an uncanny ability to connect on almost a metaphysical level with the fears and resentments of their voters.
Who gave Mahmoud Ahmedinejad the moral highground?
He tweets about millionaire American athletes while Tehran burns.
Abandoning Islam for a life in porn
Yasmeena Ali fled the Taliban as a child — now she’s an adult film star.
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.
Boris Johnson: Why we sent the jihadi Beatles for trial in America
The diary of the former British Foreign Secretary.
Donald Trump is going full neocon
The president who campaigned on extricating Washington from wars in the Middle East seems intent on starting a fresh one.
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.
Why hasn’t Italy joined the strikes on Syria?
Italy’s caretaker government has refused to allow crucial bases to be used for intervention let alone Italy’s armed forces. The…
