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Analysis: Looking ahead to 2022, it is safe to assume that the UAE will continue working to bring Syria back into the region's diplomatic fold. However, not all in the GCC favour renormalising ties.
A spate of diplomatic initiatives in the fall of 2021 has reignited interest in the regional policies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the evolving nature both of Emirati interests, as perceived in Abu Dhabi, as well as the varying tools through which power is projected in practice
Analysis: It is difficult to see Manama reversing course on diplomatic ties with Israel, but the Palestinian cause still retains significant mobilising power in Bahraini society.
Last Updated On: May 24 2021 12:25 Gmt+3 Turkey downed at least one homemade “suicide” drone targeting its large airbase in Diyarbakır in the country’s southeast on the night of May 19. The attack, plausibly claimed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), is the latest example of how non-state actors can develop and deploy such weapons. According to the Turkish press, Turkish forces also foiled two other attacks on May 21. One attack consisted of three similar explosive-laden drones, described as “model planes”, targeting a base in the southeastern Batman province. The...
Escalating violence in the Middle East — including Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip and rocket assaults from terrorist group Hamas on Israeli cities — have killed at least 188 people in the Gaza Strip and eight in Israel since tensions flared last week. Among the dead are 55 children in Gaza and a 5-year-old boy in Israel, reported the Associated Press. President Joe Biden has shown little signs he would publicly ramp up pressure on Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire — and that could partly be because he wants to revive the Iranian nuclear deal, suggested Jonathan Schanzer,...