Barely two weeks in office, the Trump administration has already sharply escalated tensions with Iran. First, it targeted Iranian citizens in a shameful and illegal visa ban, alongside citizens of six other predominantly Muslim countries, ostensibly on counter-terrorism grounds – despite the fact
“He who causes another to become more powerful ruins himself” The Prince, Machiavelli The unrealistic and miscalculated strategic mistakes that some Gulf monarchs committed from 2003 till now are one of the main factors that lead to the fragmentation of some Arab countries and the
After the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) invaded and captured the northern cities of Iraq, it became apparent that they intended to eliminate the artificial borders that were drawn as a result of the Sykes-Picot agreement. The territory ISIS controls stretches