June 19, 2019 |
Muhammad Hussein A plethora of unflattering phrases litters the discourse surrounding relations between Turkey and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), including "strategic liability", "loose cannon", "reckless, aggressive ally" and "fifth...
June 13, 2019 |
Muhammad Hussein On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the...
When a ceasefire was negotiated in September last year between Russia and Turkey for the purpose of setting up a buffer zone in Idlib province – the last opposition-held...
Imagine your home being raided at pre-dawn hours by gun-wielding soldiers, your laptop and devices which connect you to the world being confiscated, your dignity stripped from you as...
April 28, 2019 |
Muhammad Hussein The infamous Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq was revealed to be the centre of an extensive network run by the US military after the coalition's invasion of the...
April 15, 2019 |
Muhammad Hussein Between 16 and 20 March, the debating team of Jerusalem's Al-Quds University was at the forefront of the 5th International Universities' Debating Championship held in Qatar. The team, made...
January 4, 2019 |
Muhammad Hussein To make a resolution for self-development and personal aims at the start of the New Year is a natural thing. Those resolutions, however, usually range from going to the...
November 20, 2018 |
Muhammad Hussein Imagine that you were a state in which the unruly masses of an ethnic minority rebelled in one of your provinces. Would you crush it with your own security...
November 2, 2018 |
Muhammad Hussein Throughout the last month the world has been gripped by the murder of the acclaimed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. After his disappearance on...
August 16, 2018 |
Muhammad Hussein As the call to prayer echoed throughout the vast valley that encompasses the city of Bolu, I thought to myself how 1,000 people from all around the world being...
June 29, 2018 |
Muhammad Hussein Turkey has thought long and hard about intervention in neighbouring countries. Throughout the first five years of the conflict on its southern border in Syria, for example, it was...
March 17, 2018 |
Muhammad Hussein Gone are the days when an innocent little cluster of Emirates lay on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula with a flourishing economy, an open-for-business attitude and the...
February 12, 2018 |
Muhammad Hussein A century after the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic, the country is looking to celebrate its hundredth birthday in a way that has become popular throughout the Middle...
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October 2, 2017 |
Muhammad Hussein "We flew over the making of a new country which one day, if the Kurds weren't betrayed again – as I rather thought they might be – would be...
September 4, 2017 |
Muhammad Hussein As the pick-up trucks and black-clad soldiers of Daesh overran the city of Raqqa in northern Syria and declared the establishment of a new 'Caliphate' in 2014, the world...
Not all incidents in international relations are cataclysmic or game-changing; most are simply another thread woven into the web of history. The blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia...
March 22, 2017 |
Muhammad Hussein Iran: The great Islamic Republic, a state that has defied the West, the guardian of the Islamic world, the helper of the Arab world, and the saviour of Palestine....
January 21, 2017 |
Muhammad Hussein Put yourself in the shoes of a country, economically rich, culturally diverse, and relatively stable in terms of government. Now imagine that a senior diplomat of a foreign country...
December 21, 2016 |
Muhammad Hussein The Republic of Turkey has for over half a century been enduring a crisis of identities and a struggle of political association between Asia and Europe, the two continents...
![Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu makes a speech as he attends the panel named as “Turkey’s Role in NATO and Regional Security” that held by Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund and Munich Security Conference in Washington, United States on 3 April 2019. [Fatih Aktaş - Anadolu Agency]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/20190403_2_35806404_43258723-e1554316747942.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
A plethora of unflattering phrases litters the discourse surrounding relations between Turkey and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), including "strategic liability", "loose cannon", "reckless, aggressive ally" and "fifth...![Israel withdrew from Lebanon on 13 June 1978 [Wikipedia]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/800px-PikiWiki_Israel_4220_Israel_Defense_Forces-e1560249158968.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
On this day in 1978, Israeli military forces finally withdrew from Lebanon three months after their invasion of southern Lebanon in an effort to hunt down and eliminate the...
When a ceasefire was negotiated in September last year between Russia and Turkey for the purpose of setting up a buffer zone in Idlib province – the last opposition-held...![Thousands of Gazans attend funeral of Palestinian journalist Ahmed Abu Hussein [Mohamed Asad/Middle East Monitor]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018_04_26-Gazans-attending-journalist-funeralIMG_3456-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Imagine your home being raided at pre-dawn hours by gun-wielding soldiers, your laptop and devices which connect you to the world being confiscated, your dignity stripped from you as...![An Iranian couple walk past mural paintings depicting scenes from the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, on a major highway in the Iranian capital 1 Tehran June 2004. [BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GettyImages-187854763.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
The infamous Abu Ghraib prison complex in Iraq was revealed to be the centre of an extensive network run by the US military after the coalition's invasion of the...
Between 16 and 20 March, the debating team of Jerusalem's Al-Quds University was at the forefront of the 5th International Universities' Debating Championship held in Qatar. The team, made...![Palestinian children play outside their home in Rafah refugee camp in southern Gaza Strip, 9 November , 2013 [Eyad Al Baba/Apaimages]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-10-20_palestinian-childpalestine-child.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
To make a resolution for self-development and personal aims at the start of the New Year is a natural thing. Those resolutions, however, usually range from going to the...
Imagine that you were a state in which the unruly masses of an ethnic minority rebelled in one of your provinces. Would you crush it with your own security...![Flag of Saudi Arabia waves at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 October 2018 [Ahmet Bolat/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Disappearance-of-Prominent-Saudi-journalist-Jamal-Khashoggi20181011_2_32808478_37992399.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Throughout the last month the world has been gripped by the murder of the acclaimed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. After his disappearance on...
As the call to prayer echoed throughout the vast valley that encompasses the city of Bolu, I thought to myself how 1,000 people from all around the world being...![Free Syrian Army members during the 'Operation Olive Branch' in northwest of Afrin’s Rajo town in Syria, on 15 February 2018 [Beha el Halebi/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018_2-15-afrin-20180215_2_28734078_30804414.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Turkey has thought long and hard about intervention in neighbouring countries. Throughout the first five years of the conflict on its southern border in Syria, for example, it was...![F-16 Desert Falcons from the UAE air force are lined up on the flightline after returning from a mission during the Red Flag training excercise with the US air force, on January 31, 2011 [US Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Benjamin Wilson]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017_1-31-UAE-jets110131-F-3074W-082.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Gone are the days when an innocent little cluster of Emirates lay on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula with a flourishing economy, an open-for-business attitude and the...
A century after the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic, the country is looking to celebrate its hundredth birthday in a way that has become popular throughout the Middle...
"We flew over the making of a new country which one day, if the Kurds weren't betrayed again – as I rather thought they might be – would be...![U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [Bandar Algaloud/Saudi Royal Council/Anadolu Agency]](https://i2.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170520_2_23786892_22315993.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Not all incidents in international relations are cataclysmic or game-changing; most are simply another thread woven into the web of history. The blockade imposed on Qatar by Saudi Arabia...![Image of Shai Masot with Israeli ambassador Mark Regev at a Labour party conference (R) [Amir Chowdry/Facebok]](https://i1.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2017_1_9-Shai-Masot-.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Put yourself in the shoes of a country, economically rich, culturally diverse, and relatively stable in terms of government. Now imagine that a senior diplomat of a foreign country...