Category: Middle East Monitor
Though the GCC charter does not explicitly spell out cooperation on security as an objective and the GCC states themselves highlighted the social, economic and cultural aspects of their relations, it was obvious that...
The past week saw the timelines and explore pages of our social media coloured black and white from the photos of women tagged #challengeaccepted. The awareness campaign is more than just a display of...
Recently Turkey converted Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. With this action, Turkey has added another chapter to the history of Hagia Sophia which was at different points of time a church, a mosque,...
India’s relations with West Asia has not always been smooth. It has had and has been having its share of complications fuelled by external influences and domestic politics. The ties have been seeing ups...
Two decades ago, The Soviet-Saudi relations were extremely poor, as the cold war between both the countries lasted throughout. The Soviets were extremely stubborn and staunch when they sought to reduce Saudi’s dependence on...
India’s prospects of building the Chabahar rail link and developing the Farzad-B gas field has diminished after Iran’s recent move to undertake the projects on its own. This comes at a time when China...
Though GCC as an organisation has hardly been involved in the Israel Palestine issue, the Gulf states have often offered political and economic support for pro-Palestine actors and occasionally tried their hand at mediation....
Israel’s verdict to implement the annexation policies on the West Bank has been termed to be a violation of international law by the International community. The consequences of such an annexation are already being...
The Syrian Arab Republic held parliamentary elections on Sunday, 19 July 2020. For the first time since the beginning of the civil war in 2011, polls were conducted in the areas that were formerly...
The reconversion of the iconic Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque has undermined the secular credentials of Turkey On 10 July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued an official decree which declared the iconic...