Time to remember Omar Al-Mukhtaron August 11, 2020Libya has been embroiled in violence since a 2011 uprising that toppled and killed longtime dictator Col Moammar Gaddafi. Libya, a country of about 6.67 million people, has a largely tribal society and now suffers from civil war. In the current crisis, Libyans are just being used and manipulated by foreign powers as their pawns. […]
Libya Conflict: Sirte-Jufra will be a flashpointon July 17, 2020Turks are increasing their military involvement in support of the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Fayez Al Saraj with each passing day. GNA, now backed by the Turkish air force and thousands of Syrian mercenaries is eager to challenge General Khalifa Haftar in central Libya. After gaining control of the western regions, […]
Houthis should come out of Iranian shadowon May 20, 2020Houthis officially “Ansar Allah” dismissed the Saudi-led coalition’s truce announcement last month. And accused the coalition of misleading the international community by escalating fighting and mobilizing forces at the same time. But indeed, it was Houthis themselves who mounted hundreds of missile and mortar attacks on Yemeni government forces and residential districts in the provinces […]
Yemen torn apart from another strifeon May 1, 2020Yemen’s leading southern separatist group the Southern Transition Council (STC) has declared self-rule and state of emergency in the areas under their control, including the port city of Aden. This bold move of the STC has been strongly condemned by Saudi Arabia led military coalition and United Nation recognized government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur […]
Russia is the Big Brother in Syriaon March 6, 2020Syria and Turkey are locked in a deadly military engagement in Syria’s north-west province of Idlib since last month. Land and air forces of the two countries have confronted each other. But Damascus is not all alone. Its biggest ally Russia is supporting it heavily in this operation. Turkey has already lost about 57 soldiers; […]
Turkey and Syria on the path of a major confrontationon February 17, 2020Turkey and Syria are now directly involved in a military confrontationsince the start of the month, and this time,not through proxies but through their regular troops. It all started when on February 3, Syrian artillery killed eight Turkish military and civilian support personnel. That resulted in heavy retaliatory strikes by Turkey that killed at least […]
Is Hezbollah now the most prominent threat to the US?on January 28, 2020After the killing of Major General Qassem Suleimani, the loudest voice, after Ayatollah Khamenei, threatening the United States came from Hezbollah. Secretary General of Hezbollah Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in his public speech said that the US military in the Middle East would pay the price for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, warning that […]
Oman: an island of peace in the Middle Easton January 4, 2020It’s widely believed that there are two main branches of Islam-Sunni and Shia-whichdiffer in their understanding of early Islamic history and hence, they have different ideas about how Islam’s leadership should have been organised in subsequent eras. But there is a third, lesser-known body of believers with deep historic roots, and their identity fractionally predates […]
Assad and Kurds can peacefully coexiston December 3, 2019The Kurds have brokered a deal with President Bashar al-Assad’sgovernment. That resulted in the Syrian Arab Army returning for the first time to the areas controlled by the Kurds that they left since the early days of the civil war. Regime forces entered the provinces of Hasakah and Raqqa. Assad’s forces also took over the […]
Islamic Jihad is not an ally but a headache for Hamason November 19, 2019A fresh round of escalation is going on between Israelis and Gazans as hundreds of rockets are being fired towards Israeli cities and Israeli defence Forces (IDF); responding with overwhelming airstrikes. This recent flare-up started when IDF airstrike targeted a senior Islamic Jihad Commander Baha Abu Al-Ata, which Israel claimed was planning terror attacks against […]