At the beginning of the last week, the Saudi authorities blocked access to two online news portals, TRT Arabi and Anadolu Agency, both owned by the Turkish state. According to Anadolu, until now the Saudi authorities have not made any statements regarding blocking these websites, so it is not officially clear what has caused the Saudi authorities to take this ...

China has managed to draw the world’s attention throughout the course of modern history, beginning with Mao Zedong’s “Long March” in 1934. Even in the West, predictions for a future that exclude China’s leadership are increasingly scarce, as China’s economic, social and political rise has had a tremendous impact on the masses, particularly in light of the coronavirus pandemic, something ...

May 2018 was a month filled with political disasters for the American policy makers in the Middle East. Pro-Iranian politicians were able to take control of the majority of Lebanese Parliament seats on May 6 followed by anti-American politicians winning in the Iraqi parliament on May 12. The American side claimed that the late General Ghassem Soleimani was responsible for ...

The coronavirus crisis has led to a number of questions: did it appear naturally or was it made in a laboratory? In either case, who stands to benefit from the outbreak? Countries have begun to blame each other – the US launched an entire information campaign against China and the WHO related to the pandemic, blaming them for everything from ...

The COVID-19 outbreak has shaken the health and the wealth of every nation on earth, and the Middle East is no exception. The pandemic is spreading like wildfire in terms of the number of infected, economic losses and death tolls. Two month after the first case of infection was made public in the region, the number of confirmed cases, in ...

The risks of the first water war in Africa seem high as Addis Ababa shows it is not ready to compromise on the construction of a dam which could end up having disastrous effects on Egypt’s water economy. An article by UWI’s Islam Farag on the issue of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has caused a storm of outrage among Ethiopian ...

Over the past few weeks, a theory about the involvement of Microsoft founder Bill Gates in the creation and spread of the coronavirus has been actively discussed on the Internet, especially in America. Briefly, the story goes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has actively funded various developments in microbiology in the past. Since at least 2015, Bill Gates ...

By Ali Riza Tasdelen Long before the coronavirus pandemic broke out, many had already come to the conclusion that a new world was being born, that the Atlantic Front was on the brink of collapse and that the world was orienting itself more and more toward China and the east, the new center of  humanity, production and prosperity. American imperialism has ...

On April 9, Iraqi President Barham Saleh officially instructed Mustafa al-Kadhimi to form a government within 30 days. This is the third politician to be tasked with forming a government in Iraq in 2020, after Adel Abdel Mahdi resigned in November 2019. The Third Prime Minister After months of anti-Government rhetoric and domestic political crisis, on February 1, Saleh approved ...

Alberto Fernandez’s government has been safeguarding a successful response to the crisis unleashed by the pandemic. While certainly not without difficulties, he is showing the capacity for resolution, elasticity and adaptability. The historic Peronist party in power has found itself at a critical moment. Successfully emerging from the crisis would be a huge political victory, and would undoubtedly have serious ...