New landscape, old ties
Pakistan is strategically and militarily important to the GCC. The country’s former information minister Javed Jabbar says bilateral business ties also have considerable growth potential [...]
Pakistan is strategically and militarily important to the GCC. The country’s former information minister Javed Jabbar says bilateral business ties also have considerable growth potential [...]
Last month’s Paris attacks may have shaken France to its core, but the country’s real estate market is unlikely to suffer any long-term effects [...]
New economic tie-ups could be the key for the GCC in managing growing regional deficits, says International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) geoeconomics and strategy programme director Dr Sanjaya Baru [...]
As reverberations from the late October bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula continue, airport security is placed firmly on the international radar [...]
Libya’s oil industry long crippled by competing political rivalries, now battles growing threat from the Islamic State [...]
Socially cohesive Kuwait could play a pivotal role in reconnecting Iran to the world, at least on paper [...]
OMAN’S FOREIGN minister and Syrian President Bashar al Assad met in Damascus and discussed ideas that have been put forward to address the Syrian crisis, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. [...]
UK FINANCE minister George Osborne will lead a trade delegation to Iran next year if the Islamic Republic honours a nuclear deal with world powers, the Financial Times reported. [...]
RUSSIA’S MILITARY intervention in support of President Bashar al Assad has dismayed Gulf enemies of the Syrian leader who say it will prolong the war and keep Syria firmly in the orbit of their arch-regional rival Iran. [...]
GCC-Russia relations are warming up, with new geopolitical and economic avenues being explored [...]