Saudi Arabia and Singapore announced plans to establish a crude oil storage arrangement at Singapore’s Jurong Rock Caverns, with operations expected to begin in the second half of 2027. Saudi Aramco ...

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 ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 20, 2026 GULF INTERNATIONAL FORUM MOURNS THE LOSS OF DR. AZIZ ALGHASHIAN, SENIOR NON-RESIDENT ...

Fatima Abo Alasrar is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute. She is the founder of the Ideology Machine, a publication on authoritarian information systems. She is a scholar ...

Saudi Arabia’s signing of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement with Türkiye and Pakistan on August 7 marks a crucial development in the evolution of the kingdom’s security strategy. The agreement ...

There is a question that haunts every small state: how does a nation survive and stay relevant in a region built for giants? For most of modern history, the answer offered to small Gulf states was ...

In recent years, particularly since the outbreak of the recent conflicts in Gaza and Iran, the Middle East has seen a resurgence of connectivity projects….

The de-escalation agreement between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran represents a significant shift in the form of the conflict between the two parties, but not yet in the underlying ...

Dr. Ivan Lidarev is Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Eastern Languages and Studies, ...

Dr. Asharul Islam Khan is a Research Associate and Research Fellow at Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman, working on topics including artificial intelligence, big data governance, and ...

The war unfolding between Iran and its adversaries is exposing a reality Gulf states can no longer ignore: even the world’s most advanced air-defense systems can struggle against sustained waves of ...