FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2026 GULF INTERNATIONAL FORUM MOURNS THE LOSS OF DR. AZIZ ALGHASHIAN, SENIOR NON-RESIDENT ...
QatarEnergy has signed two long-term sale and purchase agreements with U.S. LNG producer Cheniere Energy to purchase up to 4 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually through 2054. Under the ...
Fuad Shahbazov is an independent policy analyst specializing in regional security, energy diplomacy, and defense affairs across Eurasia and the Middle East. He holds an MA in Political Science from ...
There is a conventional – even clichéd – understanding that Turkey had frosty relations with Saudi Arabia during the 1920s after Turkey replaced the Ottoman Empire and became a republic. However, ...
Imagine boarding a train in Istanbul, and arriving in a city in the Gulf region after passing through stations in Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem, and Medina after just a few days. To a knowledgeable ...
For decades, one core objective of the Gulf states’ security doctrine was to prevent direct entanglement in a U.S.–Iran war. Billions spent on advanced weaponry, painstaking alliance cultivation, high ...
In what is arguably the most significant moment in the Yemeni conflict since the fall of Sana’a in 2015, the Southern Transitional Council (STC) largely took over southern Yemen after a relatively ...
Since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Tehran sided with the Polisario Front and Algeria against Morocco in the Western Sahara conflict case. Iranian position can be explained by ...
The Middle East is dramatically different than when United States and Iran last held talks over the latter’s nuclear program. Indeed, this July marks a full decade since the P5+1 and Iran signed the ...
Sine Ozkarasahin is an analyst in the security and defense program at the Istanbul-based think tank, the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM). Sine holds an undergraduate degree from ...
Fuad Shahbazov is an independent policy analyst specializing in regional security, energy diplomacy, and defense affairs across Eurasia and the Middle East. He holds an MA in Political Science from ...