United S President Donald Trump says the US has begun “major combat operations” in Iran after Israel also said it ⁠had launched missile attacks…

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On 20 February, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that reshaped the limits on executive authority to impose tariffs. The court found that the…

As war clouds gather over Iran, with American warships lurking nearby, it is worth noting that US President Donald Trump’s favoured foreign policy…

In Arab bookshops, the shelves of translated literature follow a familiar order: American literature, then Spanish, French, Italian, German, Korean,…

With the Trump administration’s military build-up in the Gulf growing stronger by the day, Iran is coming under unprecedented pressure to reach a new…

Since the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, civilisation has relied for its energy on fossil fuels in the form of coal, oil, and gas. They…

It was always thus that cheap oil was bad news for the big oil producers. Yet despite the falling global oil prices, the Gulf Cooperation Council…