Iran's deep ties with key countries are enough to set off US anxiety and influence strategic calculations, but not enough to constitute a decisive second front in times of war
January saw violent protests in both Washington and Moscow. Supporters of then U.S. President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, and in…
It always seemed unlikely that Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader, would vote to convict the disgraced ex-president who, even from exile in Mar-a-Lago, holds sway over…
Raghad Saddam Hussein is the eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein, the late president of Iraq. She took the responsibility of helping her father during the trial after which he was eventually executed…
After months of the world’s pressure on China over its refusal to allow World Health Organization experts to trace the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese government allowed a team of 14…
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a Myanmar politician and 1991 Nobel laureate for Peace, who was severely criticised for her initial silence, then support of the government’s crackdown against…
In late August last year, close to 40,000 demonstrators gathered in Berlin to protest Germany’s novel coronavirus lockdown restrictions. A small group, numbering in the hundreds, broke off from this…
When Joseph Biden was elected as the 46th president of the United States of America, many across the political sphere wondered how much influence Barack Obama would have on the new administration…
OnFebruary 1, Myanmar’s newly-elected parliament was slated to be sworn in for its coming five-year term. But in the predawn hours before the ceremony, the country’s military seized power in a coup d…
Less than one month into President Biden’s administration, serious foreign policy challenges have come to the fore. Biden is poised to make his first foreign policy address to the State Department…
Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speakerof the House. On January 3, the California…
Disruption in the Hormuz can have major implications for global trade, but it also creates opportunities for smaller nations like Iran to become global political players
The Iraq war was viewed as disastrous in retrospect, while the Iran war was unpopular from the get-go. Al Majalla highlights the similarities and differences between the two.
Pipelines have a chequered history in the Middle East, but the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has led US Tom Barrack to conclude that a new route through Syria could solve some problems.