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    Russia and Iran… The Search for a “point of balance” between attraction and repulsion factors in Syria… A Framework Approach

    Russia and Iran are among the most important actors of the Syrian war, two supportive allies of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and the two main actors he was able to rely on in the war, and perhaps - of course, there are other factors - the main reason for...

    The Fall of Kabul: Tehran’s Position and Regional Future

    Introduction The fall of the Afghan State and the way Iran deals with its data have created various assumptions and possibilities at the level of experts and followers in the Middle East, which is one of the countries with the largest transnational agendas associated with Iran, Fatimids (al-Fātimiyyūn).          Iran seems...

    Possible scenarios for Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) and its future in Afghanistan

    The Khorasan Province is one of the most prominent provinces and branches of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). The branch of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, known as the Islamic State – Khorasan, is the largest branch in terms of the numbers and strength of...

    Nuclear submarine crisis: Overlapping positions of partners

    The beginnings of the Franco-Australian agreement on advanced nuclear submarines date back to 2016 when both states concluded an agreement to build a new fleet of 12 nuclear submarines in a total deal worth $65 billion by the French company DCNS, where the state has 62%, and under the...

    Iraq’s Attempts to Return to the Regional Arena

    Iraq is one of the first Arab and Islamic countries to gain independence after the First World War. Iraq has long been an important participant in the Middle East and has played an important role in shaping rhetoric and policies in the region. In addition to Iraq's spiritual place...

    The Afghan scene… Reading in motives and implications… and possible lessons

    For a Syrian or Iraqi spectator, what is happening in Afghanistan seems like a normal event, compared to what terrors they have seen, what terror they are living in, and there may be nothing left in this world to surprise them. But the situation is relatively different for the...

    Gulf reconciliation and its potential regional implications for politics, economy, and security Perspective vision

    The objective of this study is to monitor regional variables likely to occur as a result of the breakthrough of the Gulf/Qatari crisis at several levels, including political, economic, and security, and to determine whether this breakthrough or reconciliation is based on the foundations of durability and continuity, or...

    Baghdad’s Regional Summit… Iraqi Lands and Issues of the Region

    A summit of Iraq's regional neighbors was held in Baghdad on Saturday, 2021/8/28, to discuss the region's unsolved issues and open up areas for cooperation, dialogue, and unity of efforts to resolve these pending problems in the region, in particular, the Syrian crisis and the Saudi-Iranian conflict. (Bahrain, Egypt,...

    Tunisia, the Crossroads of Reform and Dictatorship

    Tunisia is the title of the cradle of the Arab Spring and the last democratic model among those countries, which succeeded in removing the army to some extent from the political equation and established a democratic parliamentary system in the post-Ben Ali era to some extent. This political system has...

    The American withdrawal from Afghanistan… The U.S. achieve its objectives

    History has events whose effects and repercussions vary between the time-limited fringe and spatially-limited fringe, on the one hand, and the spatially extended detail, on the other. Accordingly, we must place the recent American withdrawal from Afghanistan in the second category of events that are expected to have an...