Posts Tagged: Gulf States
Gulf States, Vulnerable But Influential, Seek to Stop New Iran-Israel War
Gulf states are pushing to stop a full-blown regional war after Iran's unprecedented retaliatory strikes on Israel, sources in the region said, fearing new escalation...
COVID-19 Infections Rise Again Across Gulf States
Coronavirus infections have started rising again across the six Gulf Arab states after months of low or falling figures, data from health ministries showed on...
Gulf Security: It’s Not All Bad News
Gulf states are in a pickle. They fear that the emerging parameters of a reconfigured US commitment to security in the Middle East threaten to upend...
Reducing Middle East Tensions Can Decrease Sectarianism and Opens Doors for Women
Two separate developments involving improved relations between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and women’s sporting rights demonstrate major shifts in how the rivalry for leadership of...
Is the Truth a Casualty of the Abraham Accords?
JNS.org - There’s an old adage of disputed authorship that has traveled down the centuries: In times of war, truth is the first casualty. As...
Qatar Calls on Gulf States to Launch Discussions With Iran
i24 News - Qatar has called for Gulf Arab countries to hold talks with Iran, the country’s foreign minister said in an interview aired Tuesday,...
Despite Rapprochement With Gulf Countries, Qatar Will Not Normalize Relations With Israel
Despite a rapprochement between Qatar and several Arab states that recently normalized relations with Israel, the Gulf nation says that it will not be establishing...
Gulf Arab Ministers to Discuss Steps to Resolve Diplomatic Dispute
Gulf Arab foreign ministers will hold a virtual meeting hosted by Bahrain on Sunday ahead of an annual summit to discuss steps towards ending a...
The UAE-Israel Peace Accord: Walk Over Talk
Israel's regional posture of deterrence and global high tech prominence motivated the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to conclude the August 13, 2020 peace accord with...
Qatar’s Anti-Saudi Seeds of the Islamist Quartet
A recent episode involving Malaysia giving cover to a fugitive radical Salafist preacher from India wanted on money laundering charges, per request by Pakistan, sheds...
Gulf Security: The Arab Gulf States Have No Good Options
According to one analyst, the US faces a stark choice in the Middle East if it continues its maximum pressure campaign against Iran: confront the Islamic...
Israeli Supremacy in the Gulf’s Shadow War
JNS.org - The news that Israel is somehow involved in the US-led mission to protect vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz against Iranian aggression...
If the US-Iran Gulf Crisis Worsens, Israel Will Be Drawn In
JNS.org - The war of words that Washington and Tehran have been waging these past few weeks swings back and forth between messages intended to...
Protests Could Prompt New Democratic Revolutions in the Gulf
The past eight years have not been particularly kind to the Gulf counter-revolution. Its one success, Egypt, has produced some of the harshest repression in the...