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Not Everyone In the Middle East Is Sad To See Trump Go, By Phillip van Niekerk But there are a few world leaders who will be sad to see him go. 12 min read Biden’s biggest challenge might be to balance the fears of those leaders who are fighting to preserve the status quo with the aspirations of the people seeking greater freedom, prosperity and democracy. Nor can the Palestinians be willed out of history, as some might imagine is now possible. Here too, the Biden team will find that the damage inflicted by the four years of Trump have made things immeasurably more difficult...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) and Russian President Vladimir Putin have all had their ways with US foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa over the past four years. Israel has bypassed the Palestinians to remake its relations with much of the Arab world. MBZ, the Gulf Arabs and Egypt have slammed shut the Pandora’s box that was opened by the Arab Spring, and are seeking to rid the region of political Islam and disruptive democrats. And Putin has cemented his presence and influence in the Middle East, dispr...

An Egyptian consulate will open south of Libya to facilitate services for citizens of both countries, a closing statement by the Libyan delegation read

December 23, 2020 TRIPOLI, Libya Thirty members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum have on December 14 threatened to pull out from the talks accusing the UN mission of “designing” positions for specific people, in reference to Aqila Saleh, the Speaker of the Tobruk Parliament.  The news, which risks putting the entire UN-sponsored political process in limbo, comes amid military maneuvers by forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar. Proposals made by the UN to reduce the percentage of voting inside the forum and adopt a new quorum to pass the mechanism for selecting the executive author...

Modern Diplomacy The country of Libya has witnessed two main internal conflicts, one of them the anti-Qadhafi regime protests which at the end of the day was removed from power and brutally was killed. The second wave of protests erupted upon the regime’s fall which divided the state into two opposing sides. Thus, fighting between parties grew strained and involved both regional and international powers. On one side Turkey, Qatar, and Italy supported Tripoli’s UN-recognized government and on the other side Russia, Egypt, UAE, Saudi, and France backed the self-established Government by Kha...