While the world is focussed on the Covid-19 pandemic ISIS is quietly reassembling infrastructure, financial and otherwise, that will enable it to rebuild its global terror campaign.
Articles tagged: ‘USA’
Yemen: five years of war
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailOn the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Saudi-led coalition’s attack on Yemen, a war which has caused the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe continues unabated.
MENA wars in the shadow of Covid-19
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWill the global battle against coronavirus help to counter three major MENA wars? The evidence is mixed. Despite Covid-19 numbers rising dramatically in the Gulf states and elsewhere in the Middle East (with a particular concern that Egypt is both suppressing true numbers and showing itself dangerously unprepared) there is one ray of positive news. In Syria, one of the three major conflicts in the region, combatants have appeared much readier to accept a truce and to consider putting talks ahead of guns. In Libya, however, the warlord General …
Libya: a conversation with the ECFR’s Tarek Megerisi about the war
Posted on Categories PodcastsErdoğan and Putin cobble together a deal over Idlib
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailRussia and Turkey have veered away from the risk of a direct confrontation in Syria but the situation in Idlib remains very much in flux. We are again grateful for the article below to David Barchard, a writer on Turkish history and politics. Six days after Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hammered out a temporary agreement for a cease-fire in the troubled northern Syrian province of Idlib, Turks are trying to work out whether it was a disappointment or a success. The disappointment would be that Turkey has …
Business is brisk in MENA arms trade
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailWar in three countries, tension with Iran, growing regional instability. Is it any surprise that the arms trade to MENA is hot and getting hotter?
Oil: Irony and yet more uncertainty
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailAs the oil price tumbles and market insecurity grows the Russians and Saudis play Russian roulette.
Morocco, Israel and Palestine: an entwined and intriguing relationship
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailDespite its rich Jewish heritage, its low-key links to Israel and its need for a good relationship with the US, Morocco has stuck to its principles on Jerusalem and Palestine.
Jordan and Israel: a relationship “on pause”
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailKing Abdullah is unhappy with the state of relations between his country and Israel but hopes for better things after the forthcoming Israeli elections. Jerusalem is what matters most.
Yemen’s humanitarian emergency: UN action in 2020
Posted on Categories Arab Digest EmailAs opportunities for peace in Yemen recede, the urgency to resolve humanitarian aid issues grows ever more pressing.