Mike Pompeo is the only person to have served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and as Secretary of State, two of the biggest jobs in…

As Saudi Arabia steams ahead with its Vision 2030 programme, it continues to pursue regional strategies and field international options that cater to…

The upcoming G20 summit will be very different from its predecessors.It will be held in India and chaired by the rising star of global geopolitics:…

Yesterday Al Majalla published the first installment of secret documents that reveal how George HW Bush reached out to Hafez al-Assad amid the Soviet…

It was a turbulent time in the Middle East in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Dramatic politics, shifting alliances and a range of tensions would…

Syria's "forgotten" crisis is back in the headlines as it is currently experiencing several indirectly related developments.To begin with, Syria —…

The process of normalisation between Damascus and various Arab capitals has, for the time being, seemingly come to a halt.Normalisation efforts were…

Abdullah Al-Dardari is an experienced statesman with a nuanced outlook on the world. He has lengthy experience working in Middle Eastern and…

On 21 April 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein initiated a series of secret messages to Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and President Hashemi…

Secret documents and letters obtained by Al Majalla reveal that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began preparations for the invasion of Kuwait, which…