For quite a long time the activities of Al-Qaeda have been heavily influenced by the roles that the Yemeni State had adopted and experienced; in the long decades of the Yemeni state weakness there was an ever growing increase in the…

Paper’s Summary (abstract): This papers provides an overview of the US policies towards the middle east, and the surrounding mystery that confuses its allies and adversaries in the region, and displays Saudi Arabia and the Gulf's response…

The latest plummet in Saudi-Iranian relations, spurred on by the ransacking of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran by a group of protesters in reaction to the execution of Saudi Shiite opposition cleric Nimr Baghir al-Nimr in January, while…

The intricacies of the Yemeni crisis do not stand regarding the status of the war in which Yemenis pay the price heavily, but exceed the inability of the warring parties to return to former political box before the fall of the capital Sanaa…

Saudi Shia are enduring a difficult and critical period in their relation with their national surrounding following the execution of Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr along with others who participated in the protests/riots that broke out in…

Since March 2011, the Syrian president, Bashar Al Assad, has shown a strong resilience towards the wide public protests that erupted all over the country. The regime's repressive apparatus adopted harsh and bloody mechanisms against…

The rapprochement between the Houthis and Saleh is a reaction to the exclusion of Houthis from post-revolution gains Saleh and Al-Houthi rely in their war on the support of several trained-to-fight Yemeni tribes in the far northern area…

The “Approbatory Supervision” project granted the Guardian Council the right to reject the eligibility of thousands of reformist candidates  Reformists are seeking to transfer all the election’s supervision stages from the Guardian Council…