While all the effects of this conflict may take time to fully realise, short and medium-term signs expose the limits of US power and see America's rivals benefiting
The US2020electionis fast approaching, but for months, the President has been warning that he might not concede the election in November if he loses.
"We're going to have to see what happens," Mr…
As the U.S. election reaches its home stretch, President Trump and former Vice President Biden haveCadopteddivergent campaign strategies which reflect deeper, structural changes in the geography of…
When Hezbollah declared itself as a resistance movement in 1982, it didn’t create an original concept. The National Resistance Front – composed of Lebanese secular and leftist parties – was already…
The last few weeks have had little precedent in the history of American democracy. PresidentDonald Trumprepeatedly warned that the election will be full of fraud, and he refused to pledge to leave…
In April 2013, when I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, I accompanied former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Mayor of Atlanta Andrew Young to a meeting with…
Early in his administration,U.S.PresidentDonald Trumpseemed poised to make major changes toU.S.policy toward Africa. His signature "America first" approach was inherently skeptical of foreign…
According to top secret intelligence obtained by People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, the Iranian regime built a new center for to continue its work for weaponization of the Iranian regime’s…
With the US elections just weeks away, President Donald Trump, who has formed a close alliance with President Abdelfattah El-Sisi, is trailing in polls to Democrat Joe Biden, Egypt, one of the…
As America’s presidential election nears, Washington’s analysts and commentators are scrutinizing the polling data in critical, battleground states with ever increasing intensity. Most polls point…
Electoral participation inthe United Stateslags far behind that in other developed democracies. Typically, about six in ten eligible voters have cast ballots in recent presidential elections-and…
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.