Category: 2. Palestine

The escalation of threats to Venezuela by United States President Donald Trump may be easy to dismiss as one of his random whims, but it is too closely linked to major confrontations to be seen as a regional affair with limited impact on the rest…

Baghdad, Iraq – Iraq’s new parliament is holding its first sitting on Monday, a closely anticipated event as post-election Iraq grapples with the question of who sits in parliament and who will lead the next government.

Who will be the prime…

Political and military signals have intensified in Yemen’s already complex theatre. In an unusually short period of time, three successive statements were issued within a single context, beginning with an official Yemeni request from President…