Neither Saudi Arabia nor the United States is rushing to retaliate for a brazen, allegedly Iranian attack that severely damaged two of the kingdom’s key oil facilities.

Saudi oil attacks put US commitments to the test

When Sahar Khodayari this week set herself alight in front of a Tehran courthouse, she indicted world soccer body FIFA, its Asian regional group, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and their Presidents, Gianni Infantino and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.

Death of female Iran football fan puts FIFA and Asian soccer body in dock

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani may not be the only one to have welcomed US President Donald J Trump’s cancellation of peace talks with the Taliban. Probably, so did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the run-up to this month’s Israeli elections.

Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu encouraging a nuclear race

Little suggests that fabulously wealthy Gulf states and their Middle Eastern and North African beneficiaries have recognised what is perhaps the most important lesson of this year’s popular uprisings in Algeria and Sudan and the 2011 Arab revolts: All that glitters is not gold.

Gulf economies: All that glitters is not gold

A controversial former security official and Abu Dhabi-based political operator, Mohammed Dahlan, has lurked for several years in the shadows of Palestinian politics.

UAE backs Donld Trump's 'Deal of the century' to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Saudi Arabia's planned awarding of mandates for the management of an initial public offering (IPO) by its national oil company Aramco is likely to serve as a bell-weather for how Riyadh balances its relations with the United States and China.

Aramco IPO: Saudi Arabia caught between United States and China

The contrast could not be starker. As Israel plays a dangerous game of US politics by restricting or banning visits by controversial Democratic members of Congress to seemingly please US President Donald J Trump’s prejudiced electoral instincts, the owner of a notorious Jerusalem soccer club draws a line in the sand in confronting his racist fan base.

Soccer woes: Israel plays a game of US politics

China and Russia are as much allies as they are rivals. A joint Tajik-Chinese military exercise in a Tajik region bordering on China’s troubled north-western region of Xinjiang suggests that increased Chinese-Russian military cooperation has not eroded gradually mounting rivalry in Central Asia, long viewed by Moscow as its backyard.

Shifting Sands: Chinese encroachment in Central Asia and challenges to US supremacy in Gulf

China’s infrastructure and energy-driven $1 trillion Belt and Road initiative involves risky bets across a swath of land populated by often illiberal or autocratic governments exercising power without independent checks and balances.

Belt and Road project: China expands its anti-corruption campaign

Former coach and player Farouk Gaafar put his finger on Egyptian football's fundamental problem even if his call for the military to take over and run the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) with an "iron fist" amounted to inviting the fox into the chicken pen.

Egyptian football desperately needs deep structural reform

An official Turkish visit to the troubled north-western Chinese province of Xinjiang to assess reports of a brutal crackdown on the region’s Turkic Muslims could shape Turkey’s challenge to conservative Gulf states’ leadership of the Islamic world and complicate Muslim silence about the most frontal assault on their faith in recent history.

For Turkey, Xinjiang visit amounts to a risky gamble

A political crisis in Georgia challenges the fundament of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s civilizational effort to project Russia as a major power whose defence of the Russian diaspora allows it to redefine the country’s borders.

What is behind Georgia's anti-Russia protests

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