At the onset of 2015, movements in international oil prices remained at the center of the economic developments in gulf countries while politics and the security situation took center stage in ... read more
The 2015 kick-off was a sour one for the Syrian regime as it lost control over two regions just a few days apart: Bosra-el Cham and Idlib. The region of Bosra el Cham, a region in the province of Deraa ... read more
Sinking to their lowest levels in 5 years, oil prices were the main turbine of global economies during the last quarter of 2014; either they were importers or exporters of the commodity. In the Arab World, ... read more
The Syrian battlefield witnessed major developments in the last three months of 2014 which reveal that the conflict is gaining more reach. The Islamic State (IS) made headlines by entering the Kurdish town ... read more
The Middle East witnessed a moderate third quarter in 2014 torn between an international decline of oil prices and heightening regional security uprisings. As oil production flooded the international ... read more
One month after the UN dubbed the doings of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) as “mass atrocities” and on the eve of 9/11, US President Barack Obama announced air strikes against IS in Syria and in ... read more
Shortly after the Syrian war began in 2011, thousands of refugees overwhelmed Syria’s neighboring countries that were already struggling to look out for their own people. Lebanon was one of them, ... read more
The gap further widened between oil importers and oil exporters in the Middle East during the third quarter of 2013. The formers’ economies suffered from political turbulences with deteriorating resources ... read more
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