More bloody chaos in the wake of ‘liberation’
Any organisation in the region which is somehow at odds with both Saudi Arabia and Iran is not in good position.
It was the Arab Spring of 2010/11 that triggered today’s troubles in Iraq – not the 2003 invasion, for all its faults.
An accident here would have deadly repercussions in the region and on world trade.
What is crucial, and what the Government’s review will ascertain, is the relationship between the organisation and violent extremism.
Rehman Chishti believes the vote was a mistake, but a recent trip to Washington showed me otherwise.
The consequences of last summer’s vote are lost exports, a weakened reputation – and opportunities for France at our expense.
The Gulf Co-operation Council could play a useful role.
It has highlighted the failure of the Conservative leadership’s Sweetshop Theory of Politics.
In this week’s Foreign Affairs column, the MP replies to our columnist Garvan Walshe, who wrote last week that we share no interest or values with the Saudis
When Saudi Arabia announced that it wouldn’t take up a seat on the U.N Security Council, the proper reaction should be to celebrate.
The Syrian conflict is full of complicating factors, but oil isn’t one of them. Syria accounts for less than half of one per cent of global production, most of which is consumed domestically. That said, Iran and Saudi Arabia stand on opposite sides of Syria’s civil war – and of the world’s most important oil […]
You might not think that those in favour of the NATO-led intervention in Afghanistan have got much in common with those against it. One side sees it as a vital part of the 'war against terror', while the other side sees it as a war of neo-imperialist aggression – the ‘West versus the Rest’. However, […]
In the west, our view of Saudi Arabia is of a culture forged in the heat of the desert sun; impervious to the shifting sands of time; unchanging, unbending and utterly unlike our own way of life. However, in the New York Review of Books, Hugh Eakin shows that this isn’t true – or, at […]
As a naturalised Brit, it horrifies me that some of my fellow citizens wish to destroy our freedoms.