A new report on organised crime around the world indicates Arab countries are amongst the world’s biggest offenders, with states in conflict or post-conflict at the bottom of the list.
Articles tagged: ‘Turkey’
Qatar plays a strong foreign policy hand
Posted on Categories PodcastsArab Digest · Qatar plays a strong foreign policy hand
The Taliban and MENA
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailArab Digest talks to Sami Hamdi, editor in chief of The National Interest about the Taliban victory and its impact on the Middle East.
Bridges to the Taliban
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailAs the seismic shock of the Taliban victory continues to reverberate in Western capitals, Doha and Ankara are well positioned to seek to influence the new regime and ameliorate the stark and threatening reality now facing the West.
Libya: back to square one
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWith the warlord Khalifa Haftar emerging from defeat doing deals with the wily political survivor Aguila Saleh and a corrupt Prime Minister Dbeibah in place, the people gain no measure of security and face a bleak and unpromising future as the UN muddles and foreign powers continue to meddle in Libya
Final curtain on the Arab Spring?
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailMany are calling the events in Tunisia a coup with President Kais Saied using popular discontent to seize power but Francis Ghilès argues the steps the president has taken were necessary in a country where the economy is collapsing and the Covid pandemic is rampant.
So how is Biden doing in the Middle East?
Posted on Categories PodcastsArab Digest · So how is Biden doing in the Middle East?
A water crisis in Iraq
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailAs global temperatures climb, Basra is experiencing temperatures hovering at 50 degrees while suffering severe water shortages; delays in a massive desalination project are making an already intolerable situation worse.
Syria: water shortages in the north-east hit consumers and farmers hard
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailSevere shortages of water are causing suffering to residents of Kurdish-controlled north-eastern Syria, while affecting wheat production and threatening bread supplies across the war-divided country.
Turkey’s drones “game-changing”
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailThe battlefield success of Turkish drones in Libya, Iraq and Syria are changing the way that Middle East wars are being fought and regional geo-political ambitions are being realised.