Against the backdrop of three years of war in the Arab-Islamic Mashreq, significant progress has been made toward resolving ...

Ansar Allah have succeeded in establishing control over the coastline from Hodeidah to Mayyun, positioning them to influence maritime traffic through the Bab al-Mandab Strait. However, this control ...

On 6 February 2026, Oman hosted indirect US-Iranian talks, described by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Omani counterpart Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, as well as regional media, as ...

Escalation in the US-Iran war hinges less on battlefield dominance than on endurance. While Washington relies on high-intensity decapitation strikes, Tehran pursues decentralised attrition and energy ...

In 2026, a US-Israeli campaign against Iran escalated into a multidimensional impasse. Despite heavy strikes, Iran survives, retains leverage over the Strait of Hormuz, and carries out asymmetric ...

The 15th meeting of the leaders of the BRICS countries, which opened in Johannesburg on 22 August 2023, received outsized media attention, coming as it did amid the intensification of the war in ...

Global order is moving away from Western universalism toward a fragmented, multipolar world. Decolonial thought questions the idea of a single consensus, emphasising pluriversality and coexisting ...

Arab Gulf countries have been interested in joining international actors that have strategized their influential in the Horn of Africa. For instance, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have ...

The Gulf of Guinea's strategic importance offers both opportunities and challenges. Countries like Nigeria and Angola take leadership roles, while smaller nations use international rivalry to secure ...

India is vital to Gulf states as an energy buyer, labour provider and trade partner, but avoids regional conflicts. China, Türkiye and Pakistan are gaining influence as India lacks a clear Gulf ...