Beginning in early December 2025, UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) forces launched an offensive in eastern Yemen[i], seizing Seiyun and key military and administrative sites across Wadi ...

The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is considered to be a key ally to Washington in the Middle East. Their extensive strategic cooperation on various regional and international issues over the past few ...

Issue 2024 #2 tackles Russian influence in the Middle East and North Africa. Part I is available on 19th July.

This article is part of a multi-part series on Arab Gulf security. Without periodic British or US interventions over the last 300 years, the contemporary map of the Arabian Gulf would undoubtedly be ...

“Climate point 1” is one of the most important scientific concepts regarding global and regional climate change and serves as a basic indicator for the direction climate change will take in the near- ...

In an unprecedented move, over 30 British MPs sent a letter to Lord David Cameron[i], the UK’s Foreign Secretary, last week, urging him to recognize the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for Western Sahara as ...

When it was discovered that two Emirati citizens were among the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the country’s leadership was deeply concerned.[i] Affiliates of Islamist terrorist ...

Russia is emerging as an important and unexpected mediator in the ongoing war in Yemen, epitomising its resurgence in the Middle East. Yemen plays a crucial role in Moscow’s collective security plan, ...

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa lack any legislative framework to allow legal gender recognition (LGR) for their transgender populations. This legislative vacuum has forced transgender ...

No ruling dynasty in the Arab Gulf has played a seemingly weak hand with more skill than Doha. In 1968, when the British announced their intention to withdraw from the Gulf, some Western experts ...

Manara’s third issue of 2022, “Rapprochement and Realignment in the Middle East,” considers how a diplomatic deluge is reshaping regional politics in real time. Old rivalries between Sunni and Shia ...

The climate crisis continues to escalate, with the year 2024 once again breaking temperature records and being marked by extreme weather events. Global warming and the climate crisis affect all ...