The war in Yemen is a microcosm of, and inseparable from, the simmering conflict in the Gulf. The escalation that…
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Six years of mounting tension and geopolitical rivalry between Algeria and the United Arab Emirates culminated on 10 September 2026,…
Wars are often difficult to end not because the parties cannot find an exit, but because they believe continued fighting…
On 28 February 2026, the declared US-Israeli objectives of the war against Iran centred on destroying Iran’s nuclear programme, weakening…
Can China’s relationship with the Gulf states and Iran be described as an equilateral triangle? The answer is not straightforward…
Since the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran on February 28, 2026, the familiar language of Gulf diplomacy has…
Executive Summary The Gulf is no longer a space governed by traditional understandings or by the illusion of permanent harmony.…
The central question in Tehran today no longer revolves around how to circumvent U.S. sanctions or engineer new mechanisms to…
The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are undergoing rapid shifts in the balance of power. New regional roles…
Following the trilateral meeting in Tehran in December 2025, the central question is no longer whether Saudi–Iranian rapprochement still exists.…
The Manama summit of 3 December 2025 felt less like a routine entry in the GCC’s long series of annual…
After two consecutive years of shocks across the Middle East, Iran now presents itself as a besieged state relying on…