A new script is being written for the Middle East by the United States Secretary John Kerry during his extensive talks with the Russian leadership this week.Moscow has become this month a mecca for many regional players, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Morocco.

The big media fuss about the Russian pullout of Syria was neither justified nor objective.President Vladimir Putin had made it explicitly clear that the target of the military intervention was just to bolster the regime of Bashar Assad and to secure main interests for his co

A shimmering mirage was offered last week to the Syrian people by the United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura when he spoke about a federal structure for future Syria.He was keen to engage the Kurdish People’s Defence Units in the forthcoming Geneva negotiations.With 25

A new strategy and a new chapter are due to start with affiliates of jihadist salafist groups in Jordan. The clashes in Irbid last week, between a Daesh-affiliate group and security forces, require a sober analysis since new signals emerge from the entire incident.

US President Barack Obama signed this week a law that opposes boycotting Israel.During the signing ceremony, he referred to the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, but named them as “Israeli-controlled territories”. The Israeli government has

The king of Morocco decided not to host the forthcoming Arab summit that was due to be convened in his country.His foreign minister explained that the events in the Arab world require a more serious agenda and tangible results to match the seriousness of the current era.He referr

Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev used a new scare tactic to force the US administration to refrain from interfering in the Syrian civil war.He raised the spectre of another world war, sparked by the Arab, Iranian and Iraqi meddling in the Syrian civil war.Medvedev know

A world authority on counterterrorism and psychological warfare wrote an article days ago on how to defeat Daesh ideologically.It is Alberto Fernandez, who has served in the United States embassy in Amman as a public affairs councillor some years ago. Fernandez refers t

Geneva III negotiations were launched this week in the hope of putting an end to the civil war in Syria, which, after five years, killed more than quarter of a million citizens and forced 8 million to become refugees, according to the United Nations report of August 15, 2015.But