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Indo-Saudi maritime cooperation vital in the Indian Ocean

  • Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman undertook a state visit to India on Sept. 11, the day after the successful conclusion of the G20 summit in New Delhi. The visit affirmed the close ties between the two countries, which have been personally spearheaded since 2016 by the crown prince and Ind...
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Behind the facade, it is politics as usual in Iraq

  • Iraq’s parliament on Monday passed a $153 billion budget for 2023, the largest in the country’s history. This reflected a brief moment of consensus among Iraq’s feuding politicians, whose infighting had delayed it by six months. Anticipating problems in the coming years, the parliament approved...
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Sudan conflict jeopardizes regional stability

  • Sudan has, since last month, been witnessing a serious military confrontation between two of its own generals: Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, who heads the nation’s armed forces, and Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, popularly called “Hemedti,” who leads a militia, the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. Thi...
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Iraq struggles with its Daesh legacy

  • A UN team that had, over the previous two and a half years, investigated Daesh’s atrocities against Iraq’s Yazidi community and other crimes this month submitted its report to the UN Security Council. The head of the team, British lawyer Karim Khan, told the council that the terror group had in...
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Russia’s expanding footprint in the Middle East

  • Over the last month or so, the shadow of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has loomed large across the Middle East. In March, he visited the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He was soon back in the region, visiting Egypt and Iran on April 12-13. Russia became a key player in the Middle East w...
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As US withdraws, new players to dominate Afghan scene

  • President Joe Biden this week publicly declared that all remaining US troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn by Sept. 11 this year. This date recalls the 2001 assault on the US homeland and the distinct symbols of its power — financial, military and political — by Afghanistan-based extremist f...
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As the Syrian conflict completes 10 years, new diplomatic initiatives are taking shape

  • The 10-year commemoration of Syria’s bloody civil conflict in March has evoked expressions of anguish and some new diplomatic initiatives. Nearly half-a-million people have been killed and several million more displaced since the conflict started on March 15, 2011. The UN Secretary-General, A...
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Despite 10 years of murderous strife, it is ‘politics as usual’ in Syria

  • Ten years after an innocuous piece of graffiti scrawled on the walls of Deraa by some children led to fratricidal confrontations across Syria, the figures of death and destruction are mind-boggling as nearly half-a-million Syrians are now dead. Among the dead are 12,000 children and one out of...
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Elections do not reflect Palestinian aspirations

  • On Jan. 15, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that elections to the 132-member Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) would be held May 22, presidential elections on July 31, and elections to the 351-member Palestinian National Council on Aug. 31. These will be the first elections fo...
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Iraq appears resilient despite major challenges

  • Over the last month, Iraq’s fragile security order has been severely tested by bombings and rocket attacks in three major cities. On Jan. 21, two suicide bomb explosions in Baghdad killed 32 people and injured about 110 others. This was the first major attack in the capital since bombings in J...
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