Pogos Anastasov

Between September 11 and 12, 2016, the Libyan army, under the command of General Khalifa Haftar, took control of the key oil facilities of the ‘Oil Crescent’ on the Mediterranean coast in Zawiya, Ras Lanuf and Sidra as well as…

Before the beginning of the Hajj and the Great Islamic Holiday of Eid al-Adha (Sacrifice Feast) of 2016, a conflict flared up in the Islamic world between Saudi Arabia and Iran came with a new force. It has not only deepened…

In recent days, American sources and major US-controlled media, including Arabic media, have produced a whole range of statements that cast doubt on the prospects of further US-Russian cooperation on the contentious…

A global scandal is unfolding around Saudi Arabia and the coalition that it created in 2015 to fight against Houthis rebels. On June 3, the United Nations Secretary, General Ban Ki-moon, included the coalition in the black list of countries…

A U.N.-sponsored deal aiming to end the Libyan conflict was signed on December 17, 2015 in Skhirat, Morocco. The agreement stipulates the formation of a transitional Libyan government. Foreign ministers of Qatar, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Tunisia, and…

The convulsions in the Middle East and the Syrian drama have pushed the Arab-Israeli conflict off the front pages of the newspapers and news sites, as if it had ceased to exist. Developments of the Palestinian tragedy appear in the press with all the less…

Yerevan is anxiously watching developments in neighbouring Turkey. Destabilization in a neighbouring country is in nobody’s interests, but events there are developing rapidly, and it is unlikely that there is anything good in store for Ankara, which has got…