Friday, 15 November , 2024

Iraq

100 Years On: Sykes-Picot Agreement Still Haunts the Middle East

100 years ago, the terms of a secret deal dividing the Middle East between the UK and France were put forward. A century on,...

The Economy of Middle East in one Map

  By JEFF DESJARDINS If we could only show you one map to explain the economy of the Middle East, it would be this one.     In one fell...

Bin Laden’s Legacy

By Scott Stewart May 2 marked the five-year anniversary of the U.S. raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden....

Jacques Baud : « une course où les terroristes auront toujours...

Les éditions du Rocher ont sorti fin avril un livre particulièrement intéressant dans le contexte actuel de l’expansion de l’islamisme et du terrorisme international...

The destruction of Iraq in its final phase

  Μr.  Barzanî he leader of Iraqi Kurds asks for the separation of Kurdish areas from Iraq in an article published by the Washington Post. We...

Russia and U.S: Alliance in Syria?

Russia and U.S. near De Facto Alliance in Syria Assad army could cut off ISIS's main Iraq-Syria supply line Kremlin aims to forge anti-terror front with...

Tony Blair and his role

By David Runciman Since he left office in 2007 Tony Blair has been hawking his wares around the world, from Nigeria to Kazakhstan. What has...

Is There a Unifying Alternative to the Empire of Chaos? A...

By Prof. John McMurtry The interview (transcript below)  from questions with Prof. John McMurtry was conducted for the 15th Anniversary of “Geopolitika” a journal of geopolitical and cultural...

Terror and double standards

The Paris and Brussels attacks have rightly caused outrage across the globe. However, while millions in the West took to social media to share...

Christians in the Middle East: USA, Τurkey and Armenians

Robert Fisk, the Beirut based veteran correspondent of the British "Independent" for the Middle East has written a very interesting article comparing the situation with...