Last-minute pressure exerted by rights groups failed to prevent the Bahraini government from executing three men on July 27. Two of the men, Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali, were Shia dissidents accused of terrorism-related charges and murder...
Throughout the bloody stalemate that is Libya’s civil war, widespread allegations have surfaced that strongman Khalifa Haftar operates as a modern-day warlord seeking to consolidate his grip on power to further his burgeoning criminal enterprises...
The issue of Turkey’s value and commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) remains an open question following Ankara’s recent purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile system...
German politician Walter Luebcke, known for his pro-refugee stance, was fatally shot last month by a man known to authorities for racist violence and ties to neo-Nazi groups...
The success of Russia’s election meddling in the 2016 U.S. ensures that Moscow will employ similar disinformation efforts in the lead up to the 2020 race. On balance, the cost-benefit analysis of intervention makes it too enticing for the Kremlin to resist, especially as the...
Pakistani authorities recently arrested Hafiz Saeed, founder of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), or 'Army of the Pure,' and mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people...
China conducted two joint military exercises on the European continent in July...
On July 18, President Trump told journalists that the U.S. shot down an Iranian unmanned surveillance aircraft. According to President Trump, ‘The [U.S.S.] Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian drone, which had closed into a near distance, approximately 1000 yards, ignoring multiple calls to...
Led by the United States, there is tremendous pressure for many governments to move past the premeditated murder and dismemberment of prominent Saudi dissident and U.S.-based journalist, Jamal Khashoggi...
On July 4, British marines and police authorities of Gibraltar, a territory of the UK, seized an Iranian supertanker, the Grace 1, purportedly en route to deliver about 2 million barrels of Iranian oil to Syria...
With the United Arab Emirates (UAE) adjusting its cost-benefit calculus in Yemen, resulting in a serious disengagement there, Saudi Arabia will have to shoulder more of the direct burden to continue its war...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has dumped weapons into conflict zones throughout the Middle East. In Yemen, for example, the UAE has been accused of allowing rebels linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to obtain American made vehicles, including armored vehicles...
Following months of fighting, Sudan’s current ruling military government and the political opposition have forged a power-sharing agreement. The current deal stipulates a three-year period during which both sides govern together, after which elections will be held, ostensibly to usher in the era of democratic...
The roots of the recent U.S.-Iran tensions are the Trump administration’s May 2018 decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA)...
Concerns over the spread of Saudi-funded Wahhabism throughout religious institutions, charities and mosques are not new. For decades, Riyadh has spent millions or more to spread an austere version of Islam throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, and elsewhere...