Al Qaeda’s love affair with the ayatollahs of Iran: my enemy’s enemy is my...
At a time when the Middle East is gripped by the bitter rivalry between the traditions of Sunni and Shiite Islam, the revelation that...
The Selling of Saudi Aramco
Transparency has never been a strong calling card for Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producing company. So when the deputy crown prince Mohammed bin...
No one is coming to rescue Islamic State's capital
It's no secret that Washington wants Raqqa, Islamic State's proclaimed "capital" in Syria, to fall sooner rather than later. President Barack Obama has announced...
Who's afraid of the big bad recession? We all are
If there were any suggestion that the fears that have gripped stock markets since the start of 2016 were the isolated stuff of paranoid...
Could Germany's attempt to ban neo-Nazis backfire?
At the end of January, Germany's neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD) introduced a bill in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's parliament to fine or throw in prison...
ISIS may be down, but it's far from out
Many experts are now speculating that Islamic State is experiencing its death knell.
It is losing territory, its finances are being drained and the number...
Time for a new Sykes-Picot Agreement to fix the Middle East
It's time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together.
The "contract" is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the...
Britain's top fictional spy also its greatest intelligence asset
In the 62 years since James Bond first appeared in print, there's no doubt he has helped boost the reputations of his real-life counterparts...
Trump, the GOP's spleen, is ripe for surgery
The Iowa caucuses might have been called the Iowa carcasses. Both parties saw a race between body parts: the head versus the heart.
On the...
Space mining race heats up, but whose asteroid is it anyway?
Space mining, extracting resources from near-earth asteroids, is "not science fiction any more".
With these words, spoken by Jean-Jacques Dordain, the former director general of...
