August, 2020

• 11 August

  Moscow and Ankara will continue uneasy cooperation

  As Russia partially reopens international travel amidst the ongoing pandemic, Turkey is in the top three countries for resumed Russian flights. Moscow also touts possible space cooperation with Turkey amidst tensions with the US on this issue. Despite disagreements between Moscow and Ankara over Syria, Libya, and the broader Black …

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• 11 August

  The Layers and Limits of Diplomacy With Iran

  While the relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia is important for de-escalating some tensions in the region, is not the decisive conflict involving Iran in the region.

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• 10 August

  What Would a Post-Putin Russia Look Like?

  On July 1st, the Russian public voted overwhelmingly in a disputed referendum to amend its constitution and extend Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tenure until 2036.

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• 10 August

  Can an ISIS Terrorist be Rehabilitated and Reintegrated into Society?

  Debates across the world are raging, discussing the issues pertaining to the repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] who left their home countries to fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] or live under their so-called Caliphate. Some died in Syria and some have made their way …

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• 10 August

  Israel's Netanyahu warns Hezbollah after Syria attack

  Israeli army says air raids in southern Syria were a response to an attempt to lay explosives in occupied Golan Heights.

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• 10 August

  Iraq’s powerful militias not worried about Al-Kadhimi

  Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi is set to visit Washington soon, although he does not yet have a date or an invitation, so he is scrambling to say all the right things in order to secure a meeting with US President Donald Trump.

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• 10 August

  Hezbollah operatives seen behind spike in drug trafficking, analysts say

  At first glance, the shipping trailers that arrived at the Italian port of Salerno appeared to contain only paper, rolled up on giant industrial spools as tall as a man. But when an investigator sliced into one of the rolls with an electric saw, he unleashed an avalanche of little …

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• 10 August

  Beirut Will Take Decades To Rebuild

  Lebanon, the Switzerland of Middle-East and its capital Beirut-the Paris of Middle-East, a house to 2.4 million people 1 , out of 6.8 2 million in whole of Lebanon , are smothered by blasts on August 4, 2020, by 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate kept in a waterfront warehouse at …

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• 10 August

  Beirut Goes Up In Smoke

  To see Beirut and its port area with a huge mushroom cloud hanging above is a truly surreal sight. But what is not surreal in battered Lebanese capital? A big part of the downtown looks flattened, thoroughly ruined.

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• 10 August

  Iran: China's Newest Colony?

  The deal is a clear win for China; the $400 billion will be invested over 25 years, which is a small amount of money for the second-largest economy in the world. China will also have full authority over Iran’s islands, gain access to Iran’s oil at a highly discounted rate …

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