With Qassem Soleimani’s death, Trump might take the advice Lyndon Johnson received during the Vietnam War – declare victory and get out. By Amos Harel, Haaretz An ability to improvise on short notice isn’t one of the main characteristics of the branches of the U.S....
By Diego Cupolo, Al-Minotor Following a visit to Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin will join his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday to open the TurkStream gas pipeline, a major energy project that analysts say will deepen ties between the two...
With Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia to depend on TurkStream, Turkey’s importance to increase in terms of energy security. By Yunus Furuncu The inauguration of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline project, which will begin carrying natural gas from Russia to Europe via...
On Iran and the Middle East, the Trump administration is following Israel’s playbook. by Marwan Bishara, AlJazeera Supporters of Donald Trump think of the US president as an exceptional one-of-a-kind force of nature – a sui generis leader. His detractors...
by Stephen Blank and Peter Huessy, Gatestone Institute Turkey and [Libya’s] Government of National Accord reached an unusual agreement to essentially carve up much of the energy-rich eastern Mediterranean between them — threatening to cut out Greece and Cyprus...
By Richard Schifter and Gil Kapen, International Policy Digest The Trump administration was more than justified in ending U.S. support for the UN Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) last year. American taxpayers had been shelling out $360 million a year...