Saudi Arabia Claims “Sabotage Attacks” On Oil Tankers As US-Iran Tensions Rise
There is an almost universal belief among -right and centre-left political commentators in the United States that Donald Trump isContinue Reading
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Saudi Arabia Hires Child-Soldiers From War-Torn Sudan For Yemen Campaign
The use of foreign-born recruits or mercenaries for combat operations by the military and paramilitary forces of the Gulf States hasContinue Reading
Hezbollah, Barack Obama And Syria
The news and current affairs website, Politico, has published a number of claims by former government officials in the UnitedContinue Reading
Kurdish Infighting Handed Valuable Kirkuk Region To Baghdad And Tehran
Reading this report in the Guardian by Martin Chulov, the newspaper’s veteran Middle East correspondent, it seems that my analysis ofContinue Reading
The Unexpected Kurdish Retreat From Kirkuk
The precipitous withdrawal of forces nominally loyal to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) from the oil-rich Kirkuk region of northernContinue Reading
How One Turbulent City In Iraq Can Stand For The Whole Country
With some sections of the Western news media proclaiming imminent victory over the Islamic State (an entirely nebulous concept given theContinue Reading
Kurdish Victories In Syria And Iraq Make For Nervous Turks
Just as things were beginning to look up for the various Kurdish factions fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, reports out ofContinue Reading
Barack Obama: ISIL… Grew Out Of Our Invasion
Related to my post on the rise of Iran as a regional superpower in the Middle East as a consequenceContinue Reading
Iran Emerges From The US War On Terror As A Regional Superpower
One of the more interesting if unintended outcomes of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 has been the elevationContinue Reading
The Age Of Wars
Couple of things caught my eye over the weekend. One is the low key presence of the regular Iraqi ArmedContinue Reading
The Peshmerga Factor
Talking of the conflict in Iraq there is a good piece in Vice magazine by Hetav Rojan on the militaryContinue Reading
