Despite Washington’s Pressure, Turkey to test S-400
Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system is acting a major irritant between Turkey and the United States. In a recent move, NATO ally Ankara is all set to defy its western ally by testing the...
Category: Middle East Monitor
Mending Gulf fences could weaken support for US sanctions against Iran
Saudi efforts to negotiate an end to the Yemen war in a bid to open a dialogue with Iran could call into question continued Gulf support for US President Donald J. Trump’s maximum pressure...
Finally, the Islamic State’s “Caliph” is “Dead”! – An Initial Assessment
“No group or nation should mistake America’s intentions: We will not rest until terrorist groups of global reach have been found, have been stopped, and have been defeated.” Former US President George W. Bush...
Iraq 2019 mass protests: The third wave of Arab Spring
At the beginning of October 2018, two years after the final military victory over the so-called Islamic State (ISIL), Iraq was rocked by the largest wave of protests since 2003 American intervention and establishment...
Lessons of the Gaza Conflagration
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The latest flare-up in Gaza – a direct corollary of the Oslo Accords and the 2005 unilateral withdrawal from the Strip – is a sad testament to the limits of Israeli power...
Israel MFA trolled Rouhani on his Birthday Instagram Post
Israel and Iran occupy a portion in the daily headlines due to their rivalry since the Iranian revolution. Both the countries never spare a chance to criticise each other, whether it’s a global forum...
Kurds tell EU: Get tough with Turkey or face Islamic State fighters
The European Union could face a wave of returning battle-hardened Islamic State fighters from Syria unless it gets much tougher with Turkey, including breaking off any accession or trade talks, a senior Kurdish leader...
Top Secret Israeli Oil Firm to Pay $30m for Catastrophic Spill in Landmark Case
In 2014, some 5 million litres of crude oil leaked into the Evrona Nature Reserve in what is considered to be one of Israel’s worst ecological disasters Israel’s state-owned Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company will pay 100...
Turkey’s Erdogan confirms Trump meeting amid tensions
US President Donald Trump said he had a “very good call” with his Turkish counterpart. But relations between the NATO allies have nose-dived over differences on Syria, Russian military hardware and the Armenian genocide....
Video of U.S. Troops Guarding Syrian Oil Sparks Anger
U.S. President Donald Trump has approved an expanded military mission to secure an expanse of oil fields across eastern Syria, raising a number of difficult legal questions about whether U.S. troops can launch strikes...
