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Salman Rafi Sheikh

Research-analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs

Obama Defeatedly Uses the ‘Sanctions Muscle’ Against Russia

It seems hardly a coincidence that the US out-going president announced fresh sanctions on Russia just when the later was busy discussing a deal on Syria with Turkey and Iran in Moscow. Far from being just a sort of coincidence...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

American ‘Anger’ Reflects Washington's Failure in Syria

`Is there nothing you will not lie about? Do you have no shame?’ demanded a frustrated Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, accusing the three allies, Russia, Iran and Syria, of ‘barbarism’ and continuing atrocities as...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Obama’s departing gift to the “Syrian rebels”

Every now and then we are told about the supply of weapons from the West, particularly the US, to the “Syrian rebels.” Yes, there is nothing new about it. What, however, is strange and self-contradictory is how the whole Syrian...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Obama is Digging an anti-Russia Hole for Donald Trump

Salman Rafi Sheikh

To err is Human, to Intervene and Destroy is Policy

Salman Rafi Sheikh

What Washington Wants us to Believe isn’t Happening in Syria

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Despite Rapprochement, Turkey-Russia Relations Remain Uneasy Over Syria

Salman Rafi Sheikh

Yemen’s Seventh Truce: Turning Tragedy Into Farce

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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