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The last terror frontier – Why Daash is eyeing up Yemen
With much of the world’s attention focused on Daash’s advances in the greater Levant – aka the Islamic State – especially in the wake of news reports coming from Iraq confirming that terror militants...
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The Taliban is on the move – Kabul stands in the line of fire
According to troubling reports coming from Afghanistan, the Taliban – an Islamic fundamentalist political movement which rose in reaction to the Soviet Union’s military occupation in the 1980s –...
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America’s war in Afghanistan is over … or is it?
The United States would have you know that it’s war in Afghanistan has finally come to a successful end … or “responsible end” as US President Barack Obama so elegantly put it. Speaking from his...
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Inner-fighting and Conflicting Agendas are Eroding Al Saud’s Empire
If Saudi Arabia has seen several kings fall and rise throughout the decades, it is probably King Abdullah ibn Saud’s death this January 23, 2015 which will be most remembered by historians, as his...
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Behind the Political Smokescreen — What is the Real Yemeni Agenda?
Hailed a success and a model by US President Barack Obama in September 2014, Yemen, this poorest and most populous nation in the Arabian Peninsula appears to have but disintegrated under the weight of...
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Yemen: The New Shia-Sunni Frontline Which Never Was
In utter and complete violation of international law, Saudi Arabia, the world’s most violent and repressive theocracy declared war on its southern neighbor – Yemen, on March 25, 2015, calling on a...
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War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing in Yemen
A month into its unilateral military aggression on Yemen, Saudi Arabia appears to have lost most of its composure, finding itself in a quagmire it never thought it could fall into – especially not in...
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Breaking up Iraq: Creation of a Proxy Kurdistan State
If the Middle East has lived under the guise of western oligarchs since the fall of the Ottoman Empire (WWI), held hostage to foreign powers’ will and desire to rule and control some of the world’s...
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Saudi Arabia: How Yemeni Politicians Are not Playing Nice
Almost two months into its war against Yemen – one change of strategy and two ceasefires later – and Saudi Arabia appears nowhere near achieving any of its goals in this poorest and certainly most...
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Wahhabism, Al Saud and ISIS – the Unholy Trinity
Although ISIS has certainly been sold as an Islamic movement, everything it professes and teaches stands against Islam and its teachings. This divide actually goes beyond Islam’s great schism – which...
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The Battle for Aden or the radicalization of Southern Arabia
If from the onset of the war on Yemen back in March 25, Saudi Arabia unilaterally proclaimed its desire to “liberate” the country from under the influence of the Houthis to restore, Yemen’s political...
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The Axis of Resistance – How Iran is Leading the Fight?
While many world nations remain under the impression that Washington and its regional allies in the Middle East – Saudi Arabia in the lead, are indeed conducting just wars in the region, fighting and...
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Lebanon: Forget the Arab Spring – Here Comes the Real Arab Uprising!
Revolution’s fire is burning bright in the Levant and its winds are infectious. From Lebanon to Beirut and beyond, Manama, the Middle East is once more holding its breath before the defiance of its...
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Saudi Arabia’s Plan for the MENA –Where is the Place to Stop?
Saudi Arabia King Salman visited Egypt this weekend – a move most media hailed as a sign of rapprochement in between the two powers, a positive development which will undoubtedly allow for better...
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The Role Children Play in Yemen’s Ongoing Crisis
While there is no love lost in between Saudi Arabia and Yemen – not since the kingdom decided to play target practice with the impoverished nation, in the name of geopolitical scoring and a burning...
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The Kurds, the Turkmen and the Great Middle Eastern unravelling
As Iraq struggles against Daesh, ethno-sectarian tensions in northern Iraq threatens to throw off the country’s tentative national alliance against radicalism. Eaten away by religious bias, and...
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The Battle of Aleppo and Western Humanitarianism – Playing at a Corporate...
Western capitals are in quite a pickle those days … years of careful planning and political manoeuvring stand now to be laid waste by Damascus and its army’s blind determination to see gone Daesh...
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Battle for Aleppo – the End of Erdogan’s Ottoman Dream in Syria
Forget Damascus and forget President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power – the real battle for Syria is being played out in the northern city of Aleppo, where Turkey dared dream it would revive its empire...
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Is Saudi Arabia About to Witness a Soft Coup D’etat?
If Saudi Arabia still appears an island of political stability amid raging waters – at least to the naked eye, the kingdom has been plagued by great many turmoil; not least of all Yemen’s war, and the...
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Those Political Truths We Fear to Face – Yemen and the Neo-imperialists
It is not often that world events offer us a true window into the covert world of global politics – by global I mean this secret inner political sanctum, us, common mortals, are never ever allowed to...
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