Steven Sahiounie
Gulf Within Gulf
US security umbrella has put the region in Iran’s crosshairs, even as US diverted air defences from these Arab nations to Israel. But monarchies’ responses to this strategic tough spot are very different, from Saudi to UAE to Oman
Five Ways To West Asian Meltdown
A Syrian analyst argues that there are a worryingly large number of ways the Iran-Israel war can become a regional conflagration, with serious global economic implications
Sharp bends in the new road to Damascus
A Syrian journalist writes his compatriots are full of hope after Assad’s fall. But that tricky ethno-religious equations can still play spoilers