Category: Geopolitics

Qatar plans to buy $500 million worth of Lebanese sovereign bonds to support Lebanon’s economy. Lebanon has one of the world’s highest levels of public debt compared to GDP and stagnant growth. Lebanon is a developing economy, with a private sector that contributes to 75 per cent of..

Protesters have clashed with police in the Greek capital Athens at a big rally to oppose the government’s deal with Macedonia on changing its name. The deal, which is yet to be approved, designates Greece’s northern neighbour as the Republic of North Macedonia. The use of the name..

Israel says it has hit Iranian targets around the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Israel Defense Forces say the overnight operation targeted the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as Syrian air defences. The Syrian Civil War has been going on since 2011. It began during..

British Prime Minister Theresa May is considering solving the Brexit deadlock by amending the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) after abandoning attempts to negotiate a cross-party deal. The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) is a British-Irish agreement signed April 10, 1999, as part of Northern Ireland Peace process which opened up the…

French President Emmanuel Macron stated that France would continue to remain ‘militarily engaged’ in the Middle East region through 2019. This comes at a time when the US is preparing to withdraw its troops from Syria after claiming defeat of ISIS. The United States…

Talks to end the U.K.’s Brexit stalemate appeared deadlocked, with neither Prime Minister Theresa May nor the main opposition leader shifting from their entrenched positions. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union, stunning Europe and the world in general. The EU employs a set of…

U.S. lawmakers revived a bill Thursday that could pave the way for sanctions against China over its mass internment of Muslim ethnic minorities in the western region of Xinjiang. China has been gathering the ethnic Uyghur Muslims of the Xinjiang province and has been “sinicizing” them.

Britain’s last-minute scramble to shape an EU exit, its biggest policy upheaval in half a century, was stalled again as Prime Minister Theresa May and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn actively advocated for competing visions. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union…

A North Korean envoy arrived in Washington on January 17 for expected talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a possible encounter with President Donald Trump aimed a laying the groundwork for a second US-North Korea summit. The relationship between the US and North Korea has always been fractious. During the war..

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved Wednesday the deployment in Yemen of up to 75 monitors in a new mission to shore up a fragile cease-fire and oversee a pullback of forces from the flash-point port of Hodeida. The modern Republic of Yemen is a relatively new state..