News on politics, security and defence in the Middle East and North Africa
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. A schism that could tear the Anglican…
Pakistan ranks high on the list of Muslim-majority countries in which significant segments of the population are in religious terms militantly ultra-conservative. It’s a country where the impact of decades…
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and others have been…
by Neville Teller Saudi Arabia and Iran have been rivals for religious and political power ever since Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979. Their antagonism is…
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud,Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Think that the modern nation-state originated with…
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. Renewed controversy over Saudi ownership of English…
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. America is in decline. Eclipsed by China’s…
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. An Indian Supreme Court ruling coupled with…
By James M. Dorsey To watch a video version of this story on YouTube please click here. A podcast version is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Spreaker, and Podbean. This week, there was more at stake…
by Neville Teller Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) – known less formally as the UN’s nuclear watchdog – spent March 4 and 5 in Tehran…