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Items by Khalid Al-Dakhil
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Air strikes send a message to the Russians not to Assad
As expected, the air strikes on Syrian regime targets were limited in magnitude and political objective. They did not go beyond targeting Syria’s chemical weapons’ infrastructure, and were not part of any strategy for the overall situation in the country. Nor did they have any direct relation to the...
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Saudi Arabia’s Muhammad Bin Salman and Iran
In a recent television interview, Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman added a new dimension to what some describe as a change in Saudi foreign policy during the reign of King Salman Bin Abd Al-Aziz. They say that such policy used to be centred on conservatism, the...
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Bashar Al-Assad and the curse of inheritance
The Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has repeatedly said that he is fighting “terrorism.” Therefore, the most important condition for a solution in Syria, according to him, is the elimination of such terrorism. Fine, but even if we assume Al-Assad’s words are true and accurate, the question remains: Why has...
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American Revolution: Is it anything like the Arab Spring?
It is common in the Arab world to say that the Arab Spring is a Western, American conspiracy to give power to political Islam in the region. It seems that the infection of the same “Spring” has now also reached Britain by getting it out of the European Union,...
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Is Baghdad planning the liberation or seizure of Mosul?
In light of the preparations for launching the operation to regain the city of Mosul from the clutches of Daesh, one question must be asked of the Iraqi government: Is the goal to liberate Mosul or seize it? There is a big difference between liberating and seizing. Asking such a...
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Iran is Islamic… but it’s an enemy
If the “Operation Decisive Storm” is a military action directed against the Houthis, it is political directly against Iran. That is to say that Iran’s presence in the Arabian Peninsula, under whatever cover, is absolutely rejected in the language of common sense, history and politics as well as in...
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The Saudi transformation and the Egyptian concern
It is clear that Egypt has been hit by anxiety after the death of King Abdullah bin Abd Al-Aziz. It is also obvious that the source of this anxiety is the Egyptian apprehension about the political inclinations of the new Saudi Monarch, King Salman bin Abd Al-Aziz. This anxiety...