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Any chances for Mohammed bin Salman to retain power?
The state visit of the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, to Russia on October 4-8, 2017 had a profoundly symbolic meaning. Its importance goes beyond the scope of the economic and...
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The West Faces New Threats: The African Issue
The Strategic Review on Defense and National Security for 2017, published in mid-October by the French Ministry of Defense, says a lot about the current state of international affairs. Firstly, it...
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A Wreck of a Week for Pro-US Allies, A Hell of a Week for Iran
Surprisingly enough, last week introduced drastic changes in the balance of powers existing across the Middle East. There has been a whole series of both unexpected and predicted events, which have...
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Donald Trump and Africa
The matter of attitude of administration of the D. Trump towards Africa and its problems for the long time was on the fringes of interest of world media mainly because of scandals which shook...
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Egyptian Cloud of Doom or Enduring Desire for Islands
Once started, the crisis in relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt is unstoppable. Let us recall that Riyadh was one of the forces that in 2013 catapulted President A.Sisi to power, although to the...
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Is there a Future for Christians in the Middle East?
The dramatic events around Syria, namely the April 4 massacre of the civilian population in Idlib by toxic gases, which was immediately followed by the US missile strike on the Syrian airbase of...
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Saudi Arabia and the future of Yemen
The protracted war led by the Persian Gulf countries headed by Saudi Arabia in Yemen since March 2015 seemed to be more of a routine since the beginning of this year. The legitimate government...
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Saudi Arabia has Just Received a new Crown Prince and a Ruler
Undoubtedly, the talk of the day on June 21 was not the bitcoin exchange rates, nor the political roller coaster of the fight against ISIS and oil prices. In fact, pretty much everyone was discussing...
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The Truth and Lies About Ukraine: Lessons for Africa
Following the second ever US-Africa summit in Washington (the first was in 2014), the White House launched a massive offensive against African states, attempting to force them to either abandon...
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Is France going to be able to maintain its position in Africa?
On March 1-5, French President Macron visited a number of African countries, leaving observers with a bitter taste in their mouths. Conceived with great fanfare as a presentation of Paris ostensibly...
View ArticleSyrian Resolution: The view from Yerevan
On September 27, or, to be more precise, when the European part of the former USSR was already in September 28, the UN Security Council adopted the resolution on transferring Syrian chemical weapons...
View ArticleWhere is the Middle East heading?
At last Washington has realized the destructiveness of the recent inflammatory policy of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to destabilize the situation in the Middle East. This is confirmed in a very interesting...
View ArticleReflections on the fate of the Middle East Part 1
On October 10, the Islamic world began celebrations, associated with the main Muslim testimony of love for Allah, which is called the Hajj. Traditionally, this is the time dedicated to meditations...
View ArticleReflections on the fate of the Middle East Part 2
Britain has happily escaped the fate of Paris, since the House of Commons did not back the idea of a military operation in Syria, proposed by the Prime Minister David Cameron, thus creating the...
View ArticleWhy did Riyadh refuse to work in the UN Security Council?
October 17 marked the occurrence of a traditional event during this time of year: the election of five non-permanent members to the UN Security Council. These members are to represent their countries...
View ArticleIs Jordan taking the place of Qatar and Turkey?
As reported by Middle Eastern regional newspapers and online publications, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki recently visited Damascus. According to these publications, he came there not to...
View ArticleHow many days are left until a “color revolution” in Saudi Arabia? Part 1
After the start of the “Arab Spring” in Tunisia in December 2010, which began with the self-immolation of an unemployed university graduate, it seemed that the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf...
View ArticleHow many days are left until a “color revolution” in Saudi Arabia? Part 2
The suppression of women’s protests on October 26 and criticism that has appeared in this regard in the international media, has forced the authorities to talk defensively about their past successes on...
View ArticleAlliance of six-pointed star and the crescent: aims and prospects
Experts have long said that behind all the visible and highly mobile alliances of Middle Eastern states there are more stable and active associations of “interests” that do not fit into conventional...
View ArticleSaudi Oil: Who Needs It?
Stereotypes live long. One of them is the crucial role of Saudi oil in the world markets. This would be normally illustrated by the fact that, when thanks to collusion between the USA and Riyadh the...
View ArticleTurkey – a mirror of Arab revolutions. Part 1
Hugely popular Prime Minister R.T. Erdogan, who has ruled the country since 2003, in ten years has turned Turkey into a role model for many developing Asian and African countries. The sky was blue,...
View ArticleTurkey – a mirror of Arab revolutions Part 2
Mr. Erdogan himself considered that his “finest hour” was the beginning of the “Arab Spring” and the mass coming into power of the Muslim Brotherhood in some Arab countries in 2011, which was not...
View ArticleZbig Brzezinski and his identification
For a long time – probably two or three years after the beginning of the “Arab Revolutions” in Tunisia in late 2010 – something seemed wrong with the picture of events. There was a feeling that they...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s Visit to Saudi Arabia: Ripples on the Water
The United States President’s first visit in five years to Saudi Arabia on March 28 evoked only one feeling in the international community: perplexity. In the week following his one-day visit to the...
View ArticlePalestinian Settlement and US Policy
There was a sense of deja vu on 23 April as the Palestinians announced (for the fourth time since 2007) that rival factions Fatah and Hamas had reunited, ending the seven-year split that began in June...
View ArticleThe Past and Future of the Al Saud Dynasty Part 1
“That which has been is what will be, and that which has been done is what will be done, as there is nothing new under the sun. Nothing happens to which it can be said, “Look, that is new”. It has...
View ArticleThe Past and Future of the Al Saud Dynasty Part 2
From everything that was discussed in the previous section, it does not necessarily mean, as the authors of the secret Iraqi report write, that Saudi Arabia and its ruling clan supported the creation...
View ArticleThe True Results of the Anti-Terrorist Meeting in Jeddah
On 11 September 2014, on a ‘historic’ thirteenth anniversary of the terror attack proclaimed by suicide bombers aimed at the buildings of the World Trade Centre, an urgent meeting was called in Jeddah...
View ArticleCoalition against the Islamic Coalition: The search for a strategy
The absence of advance of the hastily formed coalition between the USA and its Arab allies becomes more and more obvious. Despite the fact that close to a dozen states (Australia, Bahrain, Belgium,...
View ArticleTunisia – an Exception to the Rule?
The parliamentary elections held in Tunisia on 26 October provide some food for thought concerning what tendencies might prevail in the internal political life of several Arab states in coming years....
View ArticleIran: The Ultimate Goal Behind the Destruction of the Middle East
Saudi intervention in Yemen at the height of negotiations regarding the Iranian nuclear program in Lozanne once again forced experts and observers into wondering, was the last few decades of chaos in...
View ArticleUS-GCC Summit: Hopes and Outcomes
The US-GCC Summit held on May 14 at Camp David, designed by the American administration as a demonstration of the inviolability of the relationship between the Arabian monarchies and Washington against...
View ArticleErdogan is Starting to Pay His Bills
Yerevan is anxiously watching developments in neighbouring Turkey. Destabilization in a neighbouring country is in nobody’s interests, but events there are developing rapidly, and it is unlikely that...
View ArticleA forgotten conflict could lead to a new war
The convulsions in the Middle East and the Syrian drama have pushed the Arab-Israeli conflict off the front pages of the newspapers and news sites, as if it had ceased to exist. Developments of the...
View ArticleIs it the End of the Civil War in Libya?
A U.N.-sponsored deal aiming to end the Libyan conflict was signed on December 17, 2015 in Skhirat, Morocco. The agreement stipulates the formation of a transitional Libyan government. Foreign...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and Yemenite tragedy
A global scandal is unfolding around Saudi Arabia and the coalition that it created in 2015 to fight against Houthis rebels. On June 3, the United Nations Secretary, General Ban Ki-moon, included the...
View ArticleAre There any Prospects for Future Russia-US Cooperation on Syria?
In recent days, American sources and major US-controlled media, including Arabic media, have produced a whole range of statements that cast doubt on the prospects of further US-Russian cooperation on...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and Iran: a New Burst of Confrontation
Before the beginning of the Hajj and the Great Islamic Holiday of Eid al-Adha (Sacrifice Feast) of 2016, a conflict flared up in the Islamic world between Saudi Arabia and Iran came with a new force....
View ArticleLibyan Oil – the Bargaining Chip in the Struggle for Power
Between September 11 and 12, 2016, the Libyan army, under the command of General Khalifa Haftar, took control of the key oil facilities of the ‘Oil Crescent’ on the Mediterranean coast in Zawiya, Ras...
View ArticleGCC States: Reforms and Stability
The last 10-15 years have been characterized by a successful development of the economies of the Gulf States, which have consistently been included in the Top-35 wealthiest nations in terms of the...
View ArticleYemen’s Dead End
The recent events in Yemen have demonstrated that this regional conflict, as well as other ones in the territory of the Middle East, was easy to start but difficult to end. The peculiarity of this...
View ArticleEgypt and Saudi Arabia’s Disagreements as a Reflection of the Middle East...
On November 11, Egypt’s Minister of Finances Amr El-Garhy reported that the Arab Republic of Egypt (ARE) is to obtain a loan worth $12 billion from the International Monetary Fund. Egypt, which is...
View ArticleMiddle East Peace Negotiations: Barack Obama’s Legacy
The new President of the USA will still have to spend a great deal of time dealing with the legacy of his predecessor. Although he is determined to address the internal problems of the United States...
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