Tag: Middle East

The [U.S.] troop withdrawal from Iraq raises questions about the future of armed factions in the country and a regional security order that has yet to take shape.

The Americans, and the West in general, do not see an "Arab moment" at all. They simply see prey, and they are competing over who gets to swallow it whole.

The new model is not based on a [U.S.] military withdrawal from the region.

For the rest of the world, the check's consequences have three faces: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

[T]he Saudis’ fate presents painful lessons for Europe.

The plan ignores the root cause of the region’s decades-old conflict, which is the unresolved Palestinian question.

[W]hat is to stop Iran from actually embarking on a nuclear weapons program, since it is already being subjected to these sanctions?

Middle Eastern countries, disregarding the influence of the U.S., which thinks little of international order, are eyeing a move to a framework to independently ensure their own national security.

It will take a long time for the old order to be replaced; the U.S. will not vanish overnight.