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Qatar’s soft power sports diplomacy

This picture taken with a fish-eye lens on December 17, 2019 shows a view inside Qatar's new al-Bayt Stadium in the capital Doha, which will host matches of the FIFA football World Cup 2022. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP) (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey and Russia agree to a cease-fire in Idlib, but will it hold?

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and President of Russia Vladimir Putin (R) shake hands at the end of a joint news conference following an inter-delegation meeting at Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia on March 5, 2020.

What does the new round of Saudi arrests mean?

Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) attends an oath ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 08, 2020.

The mismanaged politics of Iran’s coronavirus crisis

Iranian fire fighters and municipality workers disinfect a street in the capital Tehran for corona virus COVID-19 on March 5, 2020.

Iraq squeezed in a Russian-Saudi contest

US-Taliban deal hits a stumbling block

Afghan Taliban fighters and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal signed between US and Taliban in Laghman Province, Alingar district on March 2, 2020.

Little hope for an end to Israel’s political turmoil

An emblem of Israel with the Knesset in the background, seen on the day of Israeli Legislative Elections 2020, in Central Jerusalem.

Can Palestinian citizens of Israel teach other Arabs a lesson in democracy?

Black Sea conflicts: Militarization and peacebuilding

FEBRUARY 28, 2020: A view of the Monument to the Sunken Ships during a storm on the Black Sea. Sergei Malgavko/TASS (Photo by Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)

The president’s time: How US-Iran relations are out of sync

President Donald Trump speaks from the White House on January 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. During his remarks, Trump addressed the Iranian missile attacks that took place last night in Iraq and said, “As long as I am president of the United States, Iran will never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.”

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