Asia

Turki al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, at the "Manama Dialogue Security Conference" in the capital of Bahrain, sharply criticized the brutal policies of the Israelis against the powerless Palestinians. He harshly and truthfully described Israel as a "Western colonialist power" that "imprisons (Palestinians in concentration camps...

The current developments in the Eastern Mediterranean and Libya have prompted nations in the region to reshape ties with each other and establish or expand coalitions in order to counteract external threats. Based on statements made by a number of politicians from this part of the world, Turkey and Iran are the countries most often labelled as troublemakers, whose actions...

Two recent news stories force the author to once again address the question of what the two former major colonialists, the United Kingdom and France, are hoping to gain in East Asia. On December 5, Kyodo agency, citing “government sources,” confirmed that indeed “no later than by the beginning of next year” an aircraft carrier strike group of the UK Navy, led by the newest...