Saudi Arabia and its close allies in the region moved against Qatar, cutting off sea and air travel and moving to isolate their fellow sunni Gulf country. Enter: the next big crisis in the Middle East. Like Saudi Arabia and...
As I’m typing, the White House is busy doing damage control over news that Donald Trump revealed sensitive information to the Russians when he met wth the Russian ambassador and foreign minister the day after he fired the FBI director....
A female doctor is barred from a medical conference. An abused wife is forced to return to her violent home. A prisoner is kept behind bars beyond the expiry of her sentence. Who is controlling these women? Their sons, fathers...
Senator Chris Murphy wants to change a bedrock relationship in US foreign policy. In April this year he introduced legislation to restrict arms sales to Saudi Arabia over that country’s conduct in the war in Yemen. The Saudi-led air campaign...
The conflict in Yemen may not routinely make headlines around the globe. But it is grueling on, and increasingly becoming an ugly conflict in which the basic laws of war are routinely ignored. The worst offender is Saudi Arabia, which...
Dan Byman was fresh out of school when he took a job as an analyst for the CIA. Byman was a generalist, and they put him on a backwater Persian gulf desk in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Then...
Another example of blowback
Why Saudi Arabia's rejection of a UN Security Council seat was a mistake
The Saudi Government will finally let women compete at the Olympics. But don't expect female athletes to turn out in droves in London this summer.