A Turning Point: The Gulf Reorders Itself, and Pakistan Moves to the Centre
For eighty years, the security of the Middle East ran through Washington. Gulf monarchies bought American arms and hosted American bases, and in return they assumed the guarantee would hold when it counted. Today that assumption is being retired. What is taking its place is a regional order built by the region’s own powers,…
Achilles Shield: Greece Buys Into Israel’s War Economy, and Türkiye Is Watching
On 31 August 2026, officials from Israel and Greece signed an air-defence agreement in Israel that Israel’s ministry called the largest defence export deal in the history of the two countries’ relations. Israel’s Ministry of Defence director general, Amir Baram, and his Greek counterpart, Ioannis Bouras, put their names to a government-to-government contract worth…
From Brotherhood to Rupture: Algeria Severs Ties With the UAE
On 10 September 2026, Algeria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates, summoned UAE Ambassador Yousef Saif Khamis Subaa Al-Ali, and gave him 48 hours to comply with the decision and leave the country. The following day, Algeria’s Defence Ministry confirmed that all UAE-registered civilian and…
Occupation Cannot Grant Sovereignty: Britain Holds the Line on Israel and the Law
On 8 September 2026, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband delivered the most significant British statement on Israel and Palestine in a generation. Standing at the despatch box as a self-described “proud British Jew,” Miliband announced a comprehensive package of measures: a ban on goods imported from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, sanctions on companies…
The Deal Israel Doesn’t Want: How Gaza’s Peace Plan Is Fracturing it’s Alliances
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jared Kushner, held rare, high-level talks with a Hamas delegation in Egypt on Sunday 17 August, as the US administration intensifies its push to implement the stalled Gaza peace plan. The meetings mark a significant diplomatic manoeuvre aimed at salvaging a sweeping US-backed initiative designed to demilitarise…
Indian Arms Exports to Israel : Examining Amnesty International’s Report on India as an essential weapon manufacturing node for genocide in Gaza.
In July 2026, Amnesty International published a comprehensive 42-page investigative report titled “Made in India: The Supply of Weapons and Ammunition to Israel.” The document delivers a detailed, data-driven reconstruction of how India has evolved into an essential manufacturing node in Israel’s weapon supply chain during the genocide in Gaza. Drawing upon shipment-level customs…
Somaliland and the Middle Eastern Divide
The Horn of Africa has rapidly transitioned from a peripheral maritime flank into a primary battleground for Middle Eastern proxy competition. The core of this friction lies in a concerted attempt by specific actors to embed a structural divide within the region by weaponising Somaliland’s separatist ambitions. This strategy of fragmentation threatens to destabilise…
