... security issues in the Middle East and North Africa took place.
High-level experts from Russia, the U.S., France, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, China, and India took part in the discussion. The discussion focused on the attempts of the leadership of Iraq to mediate in negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, as well as the potential impact of the change of power in Afghanistan on the balance of power in the region and the prospects for strengthening security in the Middle East.
Irina Zvyagelskaya, RIAC Member, Head of the Center for the Middle ...
... President Donald Trump and the US role in the MENA region would determine the future of conflicts in many countries starting from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya and the future government in Lebanon, Iraq and Algeria, Turkey and Iran
“When I thought I had already reached the bottom,
they knocked from below.”
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
This quote of ... ... conflicting principles of superpowers, the Middle East will undergo a high risk of conflict in spheres of influence between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey and other rising regional powers which seek to play a pivotal role in local and global affairs, attempting ...
... on the Middle East. However, it is not impossible that the state will retain its territorial integrity. This requires Nouri al-Maliki’s government to modify its domestic policies and offset the destructive influence by external actors, chiefly Saudi Arabia.
Necessity to Contain Iran
Statista / Iraqbodycount.org
Number of documented civilian deaths in
the Iraq war from 2003 to 2013
Saudi Arabia’s contribution to the destabilization of Iraq is primarily rooted in significant changes in the Middle East security system. Following its policy ...