Russia’s Interests in Lebanon: Fulfilling a Middle Eastern Dream (By Yeghia Tashjian)

Russia’s Interests in Lebanon: Fulfilling a Middle Eastern Dream (By Yeghia Tashjian)

Greece, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have all taken major steps, directly and through proxies, to advance their energy security and geopolitical interests in the eastern Mediterranean. Russia, which does not border the Mediterranean Sea but has a

The collapse of the Sykes-Picot borders (By Yeghia Tashjian)

The collapse of the Sykes-Picot borders (By Yeghia Tashjian)

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