In the past, similar cease-fire agreements ended shortly after they were announced and were followed by more fierce fighting that further consolidated the regime’s control.
Doubts about Saudi Arabia’s internal stability could not come at a worse moment.
In dealing with the coronavirus epidemic, Iran’s crisis management has been all over the map.
If OPEC’s history is anything to go by, everyone suffers from an oil price war.
With intra-Afghan talks in question, the peace process appears in limbo.
Neither Likud nor Kahol Lavan was able to break the political stalemate and clear the path to the immediate formation of a majority government.
The scale of Turkey’s intervention will have shaken Moscow and the losses incurred by pro-regime forces are serious and will further strain a Syrian Army that was already overstretched.
Moscow’s restraint suggests that President Putin will accept a Turkish slap to his credibility as an ally to the Syrian government.
The country’s political parties now move to a new stage of repeating the crisis of the last few months, to nominate a new PM-designate.
A surge of cases could strike the region’s most vulnerable populations, notably the nearly 12 million refugees and internally displaced persons.
Both politicians and populace are sick of a pointless political process.
Turkey is running out of options in Idlib Province and in Syria. Aggressively taking on a task that is beyond its capabilities, the government in Ankara now is faced with doubling down on a high-risk gamble, hoping someone, somewhere will believe its bluff, or saving Turkey and the area from worse destruction. There are two things the U.S could do, working together with the EU, NATO, and the UN.
Now that all of the implementation deadlines have come and gone, where do things stand with the Riyadh Agreement, signed in late 2019 by Yemen’s Hadi government and the Southern Transitional Council?
Never has the international community looked more impotent, or worse indifferent, to what is the greatest humanitarian crisis in modern history.
The outcomes of elections in the Islamic Republic are not about the choices the Iranian voters want to make, but about Khamenei’s self-serving calculations.