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Saudi Arabia and Turkey must maintain strategic partnership

  • Since Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Riyadh in 2015, bilateral trade and investment have steadily increased. Hundreds of Turkish companies operate in the Kingdom, with well over $1 billion in investments. The value of Saudi investments in Turkey is estimated at nearly $2 billio...
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Saudi Arabia and Turkey must maintain strategic partnership

  • Since Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Riyadh in 2015, bilateral trade and investment have steadily increased. Hundreds of Turkish companies operate in the Kingdom, with well over $1 billion in investments. The value of Saudi investments in Turkey is estimated at nearly $2 billio...
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Qatar’s deal with the devil

  • On the same day that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had a weekend phone conversation with Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued his latest broadside against Saudi Arabia and the Arab coalition. In a perhaps fitting reminder of just who at the e...
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New era of US-Arab partnership inaugurated by Trump

  • The red, white and blue (and of course the Saudi green) were on full display as President Donald Trump made his maiden trip to the land of Islam’s two holiest cities in a watershed moment in US relations with the Islamic world. The grand welcome he received by King Salman is front-page news all...
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Closer US-Saudi defense ties more crucial than ever

  • Tens of billions of dollars of advanced weapons sales are expected to go ahead between the US and Saudi Arabia as President Donald Trump gears up for his historic visit. The approval and timing of these deliveries are part of a broader “reset” in the strategic partnership. While close ties date...
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Trump calls to Arab leaders a positive sign

  • Despite the ongoing mass hysteria among Washington’s punditry on the potential foreign policy fallout of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders, the recent phone call between him and Saudi King Salman seems to have been warm and substantive. Trump’s call with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince...
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In defense of Bahrain

  • Bahrain has been much maligned by detractors as of late. Every year, the Manama Dialogue places a spotlight on this plucky Kingdom as the world’s media and senior leaders gather in its capital. On Dec. 8, Daesh publicly called for attacks against Bahrain, a development that did not seem to deter...
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Crafting a new Mideast strategy in the post-Obama era

  • At the Manama Dialogue, where world leaders gathered in Bahrain with strategists, military officers, defense officials, and industry leaders, the talk centered on two overriding themes: Iran and the new direction of American foreign policy.Attending the Manama Dialogue for the second year, I was...
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