Category Archives: Arabia—New Global Diplomacy hub in action

Riyadh on the windstorm of war

Reluctant to accept the invitation for BRICS membership, as well as the invitation to join [...]

Iran: There will be no "bombing"?

While Washington is announcing possible strikes after the November mid-term elections, Islamabad is counting on [...]

Oman from the future: Moscow-Salalah flight from September

Official Muscat is pursuing course of diplomatic neutrality in line with Sultan Qaboos’ axiom: “A [...]

Oman—Iran, new ferry line

Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Sutan Qaboos, ruler of Oman in 1968.  jointly proposed [...]

Hargeisa—a new player in the Middle East

The Embassy of Somaliland in Jerusalem is the likely harbinger of a different military-political order [...]

After Hormuz, and Bab el-Mandeb before two naval blockades

While the Iranians and the Americans measure their strength by blocking navigation in the direction [...]

American-Iranian "magnet" in Muscat

Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East and peacekeeping missions, [...]

Israel—a new actor in the Horn of Africa

The crowd on the shores of the Red Sea is getting more complicated Who said [...]

Strait of Hormuz: Russian business eyes North Al Batinah

In the arena of the Strait of Hormuz, where the US and China, the world’s [...]

Strait of Hormuz: Tourism or "Combat Operations"?

There is no shortage of parallel realities this fall in the Persian Gulf, especially near [...]