In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Lebanon’s Energy Minister Walid Fayyad addresses the country’s energy shortage dilemma: Receive Iranian oil and risk US sanctions, or wait indefinitely for a purposely delayed US-backed initiative. “For almost 30 years, Lebanese authorities have failed to properly manage the state-run electricity company, Électricité …

Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states apparently still do not trust the Biden Administration, largely because of its perceived abandonment of its traditional Arab allies in the Middle East and President Joe Biden’s hostility to Saudi Arabia. This view began with then-presidential candidate Biden declaring the kingdom a “pariah” state …

Behind the EU’s ‘historic’ migration pact lurks a policy to further outsource asylum procedures and loosen the definition of ‘safe’ third countries, experts warn. Refugees, and the Western Balkans, both stand to lose out. When interior ministers of the 27 European Union member countries met on Thursday, June 8, to …