In diplomatic terms, the optics were shocking. Here were representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran smiling and holding hands in a foreign capital as they

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Cracks are starting to appear in Israel’s robust public relations strategy. It has taken decades for the Israeli government to

As US and Gulf Cooperation Council officials huddled in mid-February to discuss military coordination that could counter Iran’s destabilizing activity in the region, an

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The gentle footsteps of normalization with the Assad regime have become considerably faster since the devastating earthquakes at the start

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Kyiv – One year ago, the world for Ukraine turned upside down. It was around 5 a.m. on February 24, 2022, when we heard

When Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi visited Beijing for a three-day state visit last week, most headlines focused on prospects for reviving

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The human toll of the massive earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria this month has been devastating. Combined, more than 46,000

The warm welcome for China’s leader Xi Jinping to Saudi Arabia in December was interpreted by many as a sign of

For months, when it came to Africa, Ukraine was the war that dared not speak its name. Russia and the

What happened to Tunisia? The Arab Spring poster child, where the region’s uprisings began more than a decade ago, is once

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