The sight of special envoys flocking to the region to resolve its crises is not a reason for optimism. Their presence in itself is an indication that local parties are unable to solve their own problems and have resorted to the international community for help and therefore the crisis becomes intern
Not a day goes by without news of several terrorist plots and events, mostly associated with the Middle East, Islamic countries or people or people who originate from this area. Terrorism has become a deep-rooted phenomenon and most of its victims and those affected by it are the peoples and the cou
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip enjoyed an evening at the cinema for the first time in 20 years. Amongst them was a girl called Alaa who had never been to the cinema before because she was an infant when the last cinema was burned during the fighting between Palestinian factions. She said she was “ve
A few weeks ago, the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi frankly spoke about the scale of problems and challenges that he faces on television. He said that his priority is to prevent the collapse of the state and remarked that “what was present in 2011 was the remnants of a state on the brink of
Fighters from Chechnya are on both sides of the conflict; on one side they guide Russian aircraft to their targets and on the other they fight with ISIS extremists in Syria and Iraq to participate in their absurd war which has damaged the Syrian issue and turned it into only a war on terrorism in [&
The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon was not the first to call for a settlement between Saudi Arabia and Iran to resolve their differences in order to provide stability in the Middle East and to extinguish the fires of conflict. These calls emerged after the nuclear agreement was
It has become a habit to associate large social movements with the seasons of the year or specific colours. What happened in the Arab region in 2011 became known as the “Arab Spring”, what has taken place in Ukraine during the last two years is known as the “Orange Revolution” and the Iranian protes
