Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region is now looking to begin dialogue with Baghdad and has offered to ‘freeze’ the results of the independence referendum held in September after a string of violent clashes between Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdish militias. The…
On 25 July, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri attended a bilateral meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss the future of Lebanon-US relations. Prior to the meeting, Hariri said that he hopes the two countries…
Since US President Donald Trump delivered an iconic speech at Riyadh’s US-Arab-Islamic Summit earlier this year, a new political crisis has begun to develop. A crisis which will reshape the region permanently, bringing extensive geopolitical implications. On June 5, tensions between Qatar…
Last week, Venezuela’s General Prosecutor, Luisa Ortega Diaz, spoke at a press conference where she asked both government and anti-government supporters to abstain from violence as the death toll escalates with 26 dead, more than 400 injured and over 1000 detained in…
President Vladimir Putin has managed to maintain a high level of popularity in Russia. A Russian news source, TASS, stated that a report from the All-Russia Public Opinion Research Center placed Putin’s approval rating for the last week of February at 86.1%…
On Wednesday 15 February, at a joint press conference, President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the future of regional stability in the Middle East, mainly focusing on the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. Israel has been working with Arab…
All eyes have been on Washington as the new president of the United States has been signing executive order after executive order in an attempt to curtail the actions of his predecessor. One of his more controversial edicts enacts a temporary…
Iran, Turkey and Russia. Three regional superpowers, three conflicting plans for settling the six-year Syrian Civil War. Yet, on December 20, a trilateral agreement was reached; plans for ceasefires were put into action as the total number of settlements joining the…
On October 31, the Lebanese Parliament assembled to elect former army general Michel Aoun as the country’s president. This officially ended the twenty nine-month political deadlock which has tested Lebanon’s ability to function despite the lack of political leadership and almost caused…