On 5 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing the country of suppor...

Analysing the sanitary situation in refugee camps against the backdrop of COVID-19 and climate change.

We need to remember our place and responsibilities as a liberal democracy The demands that Shamima Begum be prevented from returning to B...

Yemen is going through the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet, ever. We know this. 24 million people are dependent on humanitarian a...

Brzezinski claimed that there is “no such thing as ethical foreign policy” (Fouskas) as every war, invasion and occupation is a merely a ...

The predisposition of Central Asian migrant workers to radicalisation has long been debated. Leaving their home countries for the compara...

How Covid-19 has permanently affected the future of the oil industry and chartered a new course for energy consumption Covid-19 has wiped...

The Afghanistan war began in 2001 and was shortly followed by the Bonn Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the R...

In fact by 2015 most foreign policy analysts such as the FPRI were claiming that Al Qaeda would disband within the year. They were wrong...

Images of Khaled before and after the assault spread like wildfire. [In the past] similar stories had not spread too widely … thanks to s...

The spread of COVID-19 globally raises an unorthodox question of security for policymakers, how does one combat a threat that is unidenti...

Central Asia was once a crucial adjunct to American security, so why is its presence in the region so indiscernible these days?

On the 10th of January 2020, Qaboos bin Said al Said, the Sultan of Oman, passed away. Qaboos oversaw the opening up of Oman akin to the ...

The civil war in Libya approaches its ninth year of conflict. Calls for resolutions continue to be reiterated, but despite this an actual...

The Iraqi parliament in Baghdad has just voted to expel US forces from the country. The US airstrike against Qasem Suelimani did not cons...

In 1979, the Iranian Revolution reshaped foreign relations in the Middle East. Iran shifted from being an American ally under the Shah re...

In the early hours of this morning, the highest ranking Iranian military official was killed in a US airstrike. General Qasem Soleimani w...

This article is a compilation of notable comments from leaders at the 2019 IISS Manama Dialogue hosted from the 22nd to 24th of November....

With the United States withdrawing out of Syria, the board now seems set to allow the further encroachment of Russian and Iranian influen...

Chaotic, emotional, and unpredictable: this is Israeli democracy in action.