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  • Inside the U.S. Race to Arm Ukraine Against Russia

    The United States has walked to the edge of direct conflict with Russia in an operation that is reminiscent of the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, but far more complex.

  • Saudi Arabia, UK further talks on space and technology collaboration

    Senior officials from Saudi Arabia and the UK expanded talks on how the two countries can increase collaboration on a number of innovative fields, including space and technology, on the sidelines of the World Defense Show in Riyadh. Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha, Minister of Communications and Information Technology and British Secretary of Investment Lord Gerald Edgar Grimstone discussed expanding bilateral cooperation in digital economy between Saudi Arabia and the UK. The pair also reviewed how the strategic partnership between the two countries could be strengthened in technology, space and innovation, and developing joint digital projects, including One Web-Neom Tech, state news agency Saudi Press Agency reported Sunday.

  • Russian and Ukrainian weapons compete at Saudi defence show

    Potimkov, from Kyiv, was travelling to Ukraine from a trade show in the United Arab Emirates when Russia launched its invasion last week, and he had to cancel his plans. Now back in the Middle East, he staffs a booth to promote Ukraine's Kozark 7 and Kozark 2M tactical armoured vehicles and anti-drone systems.

  • Iran Nuclear Deal Threatened by Russian Demands Over Ukraine Sanctions

    It had always been understood that Russia’s specific role within the 2015 nuclear deal would need to be protected from sanctions. That includes receiving enriched uranium from Iran and exchanging it for yellowcake, work to turn Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility into a research center and other nuclear-specific deliveries to Tehran’s facilities.

  • Ukraine War: Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and Syria Feel U.S.-Russia Squeeze

    It was precisely their interest in preserving the international and regional status quo that aligned these countries with U.S. in the first place. The alliance of Western powers and Asian democracies, and the international order it has defended, was useful to them in the 20th century. Its revitalization ought to be just as attractive in the 21st.

  • Saudi Arabia offers to mediate talks between Russia and Ukraine

    Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, and he offered to make efforts to mediate talks between Moscow and Kyiv as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine. Bin Salman said his country supports "efforts that lead to a political solution that leads to its end and achieves security and stability, and that the Kingdom is ready to make efforts to mediate between all parties," he said in a statement posted on state-run Saudi Press Agency Thursday.

  • Visualizing Ukraine’s Top Trading Partners and Products

    International trade was equal to 65% of Ukraine’s GDP in 2020, totaling to $102.9 billion of goods exchanged with countries around the world.

  • Implications of the War in Ukraine For the Middle East

    Daniel Brumberg and Khalil E. Jahshan discuss the implications of the War in Ukraine for the Middle East. Brumberg is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at Arab Center Washington DC, and Director of Democracy and Governance Studies at Georgetown University. SHOW MORE

  • Tide of Ukrainian refugees grows as UN says a million have fled

    In the week since President Vladimir Putin ordered the biggest attack on a European state since 1945, most escaping Ukrainians have crossed into the European Union - membership of which their country aspires to - in eastern Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary and northern Romania. Authorities and volunteers across central European border crossings have pitched tents to provide medical aid and process asylum papers and sought to make the entry as smooth as possible for weary Ukrainians harrowing journeys to flee war.

  • Ukraine War Threatens World’s Food Supply

    Gallup data offer insight into the populations most likely to suffer from a prolonged disruption: People in countries reliant on wheat from Ukraine or Russia, where large segments of their populations were also struggling to afford food before the war broke out. Many of the countries on this list, including Egypt, Turkey and Kenya, are also dealing with political instability and conflict, situations only made worse when populations go hungry.