Category: Geopolitics

In accordance with President Trump’s suggestion, Turkey will set up a 32km safe zone in northeastern Syria amid a row over Turkey’s threat to attack the US-backed Kurdish militia when US troops withdraw from Syria. The Kurds or the Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group of the Middle…

Iran is “on the verge” of producing fuel made up of highly enriched uranium, Iran’s top nuclear power official said. While it hasn’t reached a weapons-grade level, the new fuel might still cross the threshold set by the 2015 nuclear deal. In 2015, Iran agreed to a long-term deal on its nuclear…

Saudi Arabia plans to set up a $10 billion oil refinery in Pakistan’s southwestern coast of Baluchistan, the Saudi energy minister said. The new refinery will be built at Gwadar, the Indian Ocean port that is being developed with the help of China. The bilateral relationship between Saudi Arabia and…

Saudi Arabia sold $7.5 billion of international bonds in the first test of how much damage the brutal killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has inflicted on foreign investor confidence in the oil-rich kingdom. Jamal Khashoggi is one of the Arab world’s most prominent…

Qatar has joined the global powers and nations that are working to increase their influence on the African continent, opening its taps for aid and cooperation. Qatar is a country located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the north-eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. In the 21st century…

After a disastrous Parliament vote on the proposed Brexit Plan, PM Theresa May is looking at a last-ditch effort to prevent the messy Irish Border stop-gap plan from passing in case of a no-deal Brexit. On June 23rd, 2016, Britain narrowly voted to leave the European Union, stunning Europe and the world in general. The…

Canada held confidential talks with North Korea to convince the later to respect human rights and abandon its quest for nuclear weapons. Canada–North Korea relations refer to the relations between Canada and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (commonly known as North Korea)..

The EU has frozen assets of an alleged Iranian intelligence organisation and two of its agents, in a shift towards a tougher line against Tehran that could complicate efforts to save its international nuclear deal. Iran–European Union relations have been strained in the early 2010s by the dispute over the…

Japan and India will aim to launch ministerial security talks early this year to deepen cooperation in fields such as space and cyberspace, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono said. India and Japan, two of the largest and oldest democracies in Asia, having a high degree of convergence in polity, economy…

Russia’s recent activities in Sudan and the Central African Republic have been the subject of intense speculation. Along with renewed economic ties, private Russian military contractors are reported to have been active in both countries. The Central African Republic, which got independence…