Tag: Saudi
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Libya & Turkey
As tensions cool (slightly) v-a-v Iran, Saudi commentary has shifted to focus more on Turkey’s activities in Libya and Syria. I’ll tack on more articles in the days ahead and post to Twitter when done. Most of Abdelrahman Rashed’s June commentary has been on Libya, and on how “What is coming… is worse”: In the…
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Iran, Aramco, and Other Things
Iran Iran has been a consistent topic of discussion in recent weeks, owing to the framing of uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq as anti-Iranian revolts, protests within Iran itself, and lengthy investigations involving leaked documents that ran in the NYT and the Intercept this past week. The protests within Iran were a “Red Card for…
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Bridging the Gap(s)? (Updated 9/1)
The anti-Houthi coalition has witnessed layers of recriminations over the past couple of weeks: the STC accusing the UN-recognized Hadi government as corrupt and incompetent, thereby justifying the STC’s takeover in the South the Hadi government accusing the STC and the UAE of acting in concert to create a fait accompli of Southern secession Emirati…
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KSA-UAE: Yemen, Hadi and the STC (8/23-25)
A range of reporting and analysis (Tim Lister for CNN, Alex Stark at FP, Taylor Luck for CSM) has focused on the mounting tensions in the UAE-Saudi coalition to restore Yemen’s UN-recognized government to power. Efforts by the UAE-trained and –backed Southern Transitional Council to seize power in Southern Yemen (with the apparent acquiescence of…
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KSA Papers: 6.22-6.29, 2019
UN Report on the Death of Jamal Khashoggi “What is always happens is that the hostile media has its material ready and its agenda set, as in the case of the report of the UN Rapporteur on Wednesday. The report was heralded by Qatar’s Al-Jazeera Qatar and hostile Turkish media channels, with the European Union…
The Bitter Lake 