China takes a leap of faith in the Hindu Kush
ahmed sabirAs Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi's travels to the AfPak region demonstrate, the US may even feel relieved that China is stepping in because the US has exhausted its strategic…
Understanding China’s disguised game plan
To settle the Sikkim border separately with China is not acceptable to Delhi as it would mean that India agrees that this part of the border is 'different' from the…
Trump should learn from Reagan’s folly in Lebanon
By M K Bhadrakumar Even by American standards, the White House statement on the terrorist attacks in Tehran on Wednesday will stand out as a new threshold in the US'…
Iran’s missile attack on the Islamic State
At its most obvious level, Iran's missile attack on the Islamic State command centre in the Syrian city of Dier Ezzor on Sunday may be regarded as the demonstration of…
A dark age
By Munir Akram Today's vulnerable Muslim world is wide open to the influence and domination of external powers. IN the 14th and 15th centuries, Christian Europe was divided by the…
The $110 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia is fake news
Senior fellow - foreign policy, center for 21st Century security and intelligence, center for ME policy By Bruce Riedel Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced…
This is the real story behind the economic crisis unfolding in Qatar
By Robert Fisk The Qatar crisis proves two things: the continued infantilisation of the Arab states, and the total collapse of the Sunni Muslim unity supposedly created by Donald Trump's…
As in Syria, Trump has set Obama aside in Saudi too
By Salman Rafi Regardless of the theatrics and the billion-dollar deals, Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia has accomplished one thing: reversal of the Obama administration's policy of gradual engagement…
Why is Qatar the next target?
the highest per capita income in the world at the rate of 146 thousand dollars annually the second country in the world in the number of millionaires approximately 30 thousand…
Afghans, Arabs are victims, too, but does the West care?
By Ishaan Tharoor It's a truism that the world has grown numb to terrorist attacks outside the West. When Daesh set off a car bomb on Tuesday outside a popular…