It is hard to recall that until January of this year the GCC remained divided with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the…
Author: Bill Law
On 10 April the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced that it had executed three soldiers after what it called a…
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, the Bahrain human rights activist, was arrested on the night of 9 April 2011. During the arrest at…
The rout of the Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar continues apace with forces of the Government of National Accord (GNA) lifting…
Of all the decisions that Mohammed Bin Salman, the crown prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia has made…
As the coronavirus, Covid-19, continues to impact markets and national and global economies, it is worthwhile noting that Gulf economies…
In the days since the 3 January assassination of Iranian General Qassem Suleimeni on the orders of US President Donald…
Iraq and Lebanon have experienced an extraordinary rebirth of the power of the street in the Middle East, one that…
On Sunday 17 November in cities across Iraq tens of thousands of people came into the streets answering a call…
On 3 November, after several false starts and nearly four years on from when the Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin…
The Americans call the five day halt to Turkey’s military incursion into Northern Syria a ceasefire, while the Turks prefer…
It is one year since the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He did not come…