Posted on Sat, January 24, 2015 at 19:56 pm CET
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ISIS’s Financial and Military Capabilities

ISIS’s capabilities: the number of its operatives, control system, military strength, leadership, allies and financial capabilities… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Energy • Global Islam • Global Jihad • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Islamic State • Islamic Terrorism • Syria • Syrian Kurdistan 
Posted on Sun, February 10, 2013 at 16:55 pm CET
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Learning the Wrong Lessons from Ike

The real lessons of 1956… Continue reading

Topics: Arab World • Britain • Diplomacy • Egypt • France • History • Iraq • Israel • Obamaism • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy • US-Israel Relations 
Posted on Tue, July 3, 2012 at 21:36 pm CEST
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Assessing Iraq’s Oil Industry

This article provides an overview of Iraq’s oil and gas industry, focusing in particular on its history since 2003 under the Coalition Provisional Authority and the sovereign Iraqi government… Continue reading

Topics: China • Economy • Energy • Iraq • Iraqi Kurdistan • Kurdistan • OPEC • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Mon, April 30, 2012 at 00:11 am CEST
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Cyber attack on Iran’s oil industry

The information systems of Iran’s Petroleum Ministry and the National Petroleum Company have been under a cyber attack… Continue reading

Topics: Cyber War • Energy • Iran 
Posted on Thu, April 19, 2012 at 14:34 pm CEST
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The Piety Premium of Islamic Bonds

Traditionally, the Islamic states have had to reach out to Western capital markets to obtain funding for major projects. Islam’s prohibition on the collection of interest made it difficult to… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Global Islam • Islamic Countries • Malaysia • Pakistan • Qatar • Religion • Sharia Law 
Posted on Fri, March 9, 2012 at 20:16 pm CET
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Free Markets Can Transform the Middle East

As the high hopes for a brave new Middle East fade rapidly, Western policymakers must recognize that promoting market economics and its inevitable cultural changes are far more critical to the region’s well-being than encouraging free elections or resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Economy • Egypt • The Middle East 
Posted on Tue, February 28, 2012 at 23:50 pm CET
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Oil Remains King; When it Comes to Energy Production It’s A Case of Drill or Be Drilled

Here’s what you need to know about the current U.S. debate on energy… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Energy • Europe • OPEC • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, February 11, 2012 at 18:51 pm CET
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Will Turkey Be Able to Join the West in Confronting Iran?

The international sanctions against Iran, and most recently the decision of the EU countries to stop importing oil from Iran, are ultimately going to have a major impact on Turkey… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Energy • Iran • Politics • Turkey • United Nations 
Posted on Tue, January 31, 2012 at 02:21 am CET
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Ankara and Baghdad: A Parting of Ways?

Until now, Turkey’s presence in Iraq has generally been encouraged by all major Iraqi groups… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Iraq • Kurdish People • PKK • Politics • Security and Defense • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • Turkey 
Posted on Thu, January 26, 2012 at 15:46 pm CET
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Saudi Air Force to Outnumber, Outclass and Outgun Israel’s Advanced US Jet Fleet

With its latest acquisitions from Washington and Europe, the Saudi Air Force will have more fighter-bombers of more advanced models that the Israeli Air Force… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Israel • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Thu, January 26, 2012 at 15:20 pm CET
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Security and Defense: Israel is not About to Attack Iran and Neither is the United States

The radio superhero, The Shadow, had the power to “cloud men’s minds.” But nothing clouds men’s minds like anything that has to do with Jews or Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Israel • Politics • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Tue, January 24, 2012 at 13:16 pm CET
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Gold for Oil: India to Pay Gold instead of Dollars for Iranian Oil

India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar… Continue reading

Topics: China • Economy • Energy • Europe • India • Iran • Politics • Turkey • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, January 22, 2012 at 23:26 pm CET
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USS Abraham Lincoln Transits Hormuz; USS Enterprise to Transit Hormuz in March

Three weeks after Tehran threatened action against any US aircraft carrier entering the Strait of Hormuz… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, January 21, 2012 at 03:04 am CET
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Strike Oil

The IRGC’s seizure of the Oil Ministry could have far reaching economic, political, and strategic implications… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Energy • Iran • Politics 
Posted on Sun, January 15, 2012 at 15:47 pm CET
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US, Israel in open rift over Iran

US-Israeli discord over action against Iran went into overdrive when the White House called off the biggest joint war game the US and Israel have ever staged… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Economy • Iran • Israel • Politics • Security and Defense • United States of America 
Posted on Wed, January 11, 2012 at 20:23 pm CET
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Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated in Tehran

Prof. Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, was killed early Wednesday… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Iran • Saudi Arabia • Security and Defense • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sat, December 24, 2011 at 21:39 pm CET
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Tactical Allies and Strategic Rivals: Turkey’s Changing Relations with Iran

General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, declared that, if Iran came under attack from the U.S. or Israel… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Iran • NATO • Politics • Security and Defense • Turkey 
Posted on Mon, December 5, 2011 at 22:26 pm CET
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Tehran dismisses Western threats to impose sanctions on import of oil from Iran

Iran dismissed the threats increasingly made by European countries to impose new sanctions on its petroleum industry… Continue reading

Topics: Energy • Europe • France • Iran • Italy 
Posted on Sun, November 27, 2011 at 21:18 pm CET
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The Coming Oil-Shale Revolution?

To preface, when it comes to global petroleum supplies, a distinction is drawn between… Continue reading

Topics: Energy • Iraq • Islamism • OPEC • Saudi Arabia • United States of America • Wahhabism 
Posted on Wed, November 2, 2011 at 20:34 pm CET
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Sudan in Crisis

Three months after the birth of South Sudan, how is the northern neighbor of the world’s newest nation faring… Continue reading

Topics: Christianity • Global Islam • Sharia Law • South Sudan • Sudan 
Posted on Mon, October 31, 2011 at 20:05 pm CET
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Economy: Are the Generals stealing Egypt?

After public warnings that it faces bankruptcy within a few months… Continue reading

Topics: Economy • Egypt 
Posted on Wed, October 19, 2011 at 22:47 pm CEST
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Assessing Bahrain

Critics have often argued that Western nations have been hypocritical in their policies towards Bahrain… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • GCC • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy 
Posted on Sun, September 25, 2011 at 02:03 am CEST
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NTC Chairman Mahmoud Jibreel Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Today, I stand before you to show the world that a new Libya is coming to life… Continue reading

Topics: Libya • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 20:14 pm CEST
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President Salva Kiir Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

We urge the Government of Sudan to seek a peaceful resolution to these conflicts… Continue reading

Topics: South Sudan • United Nations 
Posted on Sat, September 24, 2011 at 19:41 pm CEST
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President Talabani Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Iraq is building a homeland where everyone lives in peace and stability without regard to sectarian, ethnic or factional affiliations… Continue reading

Topics: Iraq • United Nations