The Middle East’s new ‘cold war’: Gulf states against neo-Ottoman Turkey
The Middle East is undergoing a profound transformation as new rivalries reshape its geopolitical order. For decades, the ...
BBC6y
Saudi Arabia: Five reasons why Gulf kingdom matters to the West
US President Donald Trump has threatened to inflict "severe punishment" on Saudi Arabia if it is found to have killed the prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared while visiting ...
BBC5y
Why would Iran raise the stakes by attacking Saudi Arabia?
The question is whether there could be a war. The scale of the attacks means that Saudi Arabia cannot overlook ... aircraft and ships deployed in the Gulf region, President Trump appears to ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
How the Gulf War helped foster the rise of one of Asia's greatest rivalries between Saudi Arabia and Iraq
Simultaneously, Saudi Arabia also started hosting Iraqi opposition groups and openly denounced Iraq in response. One aspect we seldom realised was the Gulf War left a tremendous legacy on the ...
Lessons for today: how the Gulf War shaped Israel's defense strategy
It has been almost a quarter century since the 1991 Gulf War which began with Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August ...