June 23, 2020
…what has motivated Turkey to intensify its military intervention in Libya have spurred much debate across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Europe. The Turks are unquestionably…
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September 26, 2020
…world that do not rely on employing more violence. Since 2001, the U.S. has spent $6.4 trillion on wars across the Middle East and North Africa, yet, the world is not safer….
June 25, 2020
…of any number of rivals. Still, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is unlikely to fall off the precipice of uncontained military confrontations. Faced by the human and…
July 1, 2020
…both Iran’s partners, back the LNA, the Islamic Republic would prefer to see the consolidation of the Turkish-backed GNA over the empowerment of the Saudi-Egyptian axis in North Africa. Furthermore,…
July 1, 2020
…Leah Whitson, Human Rights Watch’s former Middle East and North Africa Director, and Abdullah AlAoudh, a Saudi legal scholar, dismissed NEOM’s grand ambitions. Mr. AlAoudh’s father Shaykh Salman Al-Odah, a…
July 5, 2020
…The pernicious effects of racism have also shaped the prosecution of America’s endless wars. African Americans were disproportionately drafted and killed in Vietnam: in 1967, blacks accounted for 16 percent…
July 3, 2020
…synergies that fill a void left by America’s widely absent or incoherent moral leadership. While Washington started to withdraw from the Middle East and North Africa already in the Obama…
July 7, 2020
…conversation on U.S. blank checks to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which “intervene across the Middle East and North Africa to stop democracy and promote dictatorship.” But there is little…
July 8, 2020
…Israel or the United States. The overwhelming majority of people the court has indicted since its inception have been military and political figures in Africa. Another multilateral body on which…
July 14, 2020
…drone program not only in Afghanistan but in Pakistan and throughout Africa as well. And in fact, he pushed hard for the expansion of the drone program and the use…
July 20, 2020
…of Black and brown people. Overinvestment in the military has similarly paved the way for a seemingly endless “War on Terror” across the Middle East and North Africa that both…
August 6, 2020
…the Middle East and north Africa like the ongoing disasters in Libya and Syria that once got significant coverage now barely get a mention much of the time. In the…
August 7, 2020
…Africa, Brazil, and Libya when sanctions deny money and material critical to the development of arsenals, while new security guarantees are forged from intense problem-solving diplomacy. In addition, these agreements…
August 16, 2020
…facto annexation and settlement of Palestinian territory will continue unobstructed, entrenching a system of control that favours Jewish Israelis over their Palestinian neighbours and increasingly looks like South Africa’s past…
August 20, 2020
…All Wars,” who protested British involvement in the Boer war even as she traveled to South Africa to document the suffering and to aid the wounded). As importantly, while our…
August 25, 2020
…and USSR as the “first world,” wealthy countries like the U.K. and Japan as the “second world,” and China as the vanguard of the developing “third world,” concentrated in Africa,…
August 26, 2020
…cause is primarily about injustice. Across the Middle East and North Africa, the seizure of Palestine by the European powers during the period of the British Mandate between the world…
September 20, 2020
…South Africa. According to Politico, “News of the plot comes as Iran continues to seek ways to retaliate for President Donald Trump’s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, the…
October 13, 2021
…weapons across the Middle East and Africa, and violated the spirit if not the letter of the UN Security Council resolution that had authorized the initial intervention. 2) Obama, along…
December 12, 2020
The Defense Department’s December 4 announcement that American troops in Somalia are being repositioned out of the country was praised by Trump supporters as a promise kept to bring servicemembers…