By : Rajeev Sharma No Indian president fired the imagination of the common man in this nation of a billion-plus as Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen (APJ) Abdul Kalam did. No president’s death evoked a tsunami of genuine grief across the country

By : Raghida Dergham The international anti-ISIS coalition came out with a deficient strategy after meeting in Paris this week to revise its already deficient strategy. The 24 foreign ministers did not have unified positions regarding Iraq or Syria, whether

By : Sinem Cengiz On June 7, more than 53 million Turkish voters went to the ballot boxes to cast their votes in a critical election that not only forms the new government for the next four years but also

By : Jamal Khashoggi It is wrong to look at Operation Decisive Storm merely as an incidental Saudi military operation against the Houthis. This is a Saudi policy combining diplomacy and war to stop Iranian influence then push it out

By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed The parties fighting in Yemen are not yet willing to accept a political solution to the crisis. This inevitably means that peace talks in Muscat, the upcoming Geneva negotiations and other bilateral meetings being held across

By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed Judging by Iranian media reports, from Mehr news agency and Press TV, discussing a complete naval blockade on all Yemen ports by the Saudi-led coalition – thus preventing aid ships carrying fuel, water and petroleum derivatives

By : Raed Omari There have been recent reports of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents in the Gaza Strip, though not to the extent of its presence elsewhere in the region such as in Iraq, Syria, Libya,

By : Jamal Khashoggi Saudi King Salman and the whole of Saudi Arabia want to stop the war in Yemen, but if it has to, Riyadh will be decisive and patient until victory is achieved. Saudi Arabia will most probably

By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed The capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, Ramadi, has fallen to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), almost a year after the fall of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province. What we are confronting in

By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed Both sides in Egypt chose to escalate the conflict. Muslim Brotherhood leaders who fled and settled abroad decided to defy the regime, justifying the killings in Sinai and threatening the current Egyptian rule. As for the

By : Dr. Azeem Ibrahim The plight of the Rohingya people of Myanmar has once again been highlighted in the last couple of days by a handful of reports in the global press, the BBC and the Independent to name

By : Abdulrahman al-Rashed U.S. President Barack Obama and delegations from the Gulf Cooperation Council were among 20 delegates gathered around a large rectangular table at the Camp David retreat on Thursday. If it was not for the strong objection

By : Samar Fatany I was recently asked by a visiting American journalist about some of the misconceptions that the American public have of Saudi women. We both agreed that the stereotypes of Saudi women need to be overturned in

By : Khaled Almaeena From a simple beginning a decade and a half ago to a much prized event, the Arab Media Forum can be aptly described as the Oscars of Arab media. It was an idea in the mind

By : Dr. Theodore Karasik The firefight that killed ISIS official Abu Sayyaf by U.S. Special Operations is a major achievement and long overdue against the ISIS leadership. Sayyaf’s wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured during the firefight and is currently