Like many other countries of the Middle East, Bahrain has been repeatedly conquered by foreign invaders, including the Abbasids, Jarwinids, Omanis, Persians and Portuguese. In 1783, a tribal confederation backed by a Kuwaiti naval force and Bedouins from Qatar’s Zubara invaded Bahrain and established the rule of the House of Khalifa. But their uninterrupted political […]
Washington bears gifts to Manila. During a visit to the Philippines, U.S. National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien announced the formal transfer of an $18...
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Judging solely by its headline figures, the newly inked 15-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – by most metrics the world’s largest...
Cease-fire implementation. Azerbaijani troops entered the Aghdam region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday as part of the Russian-negotiated cease-fire agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia. A...
Background: Among the most important of modern Russia’s foreign policy objectives is to reclaim the influence it lost when the Soviet Union collapsed, particularly...
