Special to WorldTribune.com By Dr. Assad Homayoun The Indian Ocean has already become the key focus of the global strategic and commercial contest for the 21st Century. The realization is slowly dawning in Europe and the Americas that this is the dynamic element of the new Asia-Pacific strategic architecture. And now, because of historical developments, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — An Islamic Jihad leader has been deported from the United States to Turkey. Sami Al Arian was deported after a 12-year battle to remain in the United States. Al Arian, a former professor at the University of South Florida, was arrested in 2003 on charges of funding the Iranian-sponsored Islamic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Qatar has canceled a major petrochemicals project. The state-owned Qatar Petroleum has canceled a project to develop a petrochemicals complex in Ras Laffan Industrial City. Qatar and its partner, Royal Dutch Shell, determined that the Al Karaana project was too costly amid the plunge in the price of crude […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs The modern Arab State is gone, rejected by the vast majority of the populace. Libya, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon are no more, and Jordan and Yemen are not far behind. In their place there have emerged entities based on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Doha and Cairo. There was speculation in late 2014 that Qatar had begun to take a new strategic line, mending relations with Egypt, and that this could also push Turkey toward improving its relations with Cairo. There were also reports that Qatar’s Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr television station, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — The Gulf Cooperation Council is preparing to significantly reduce its energy investment for the rest of the decade. The Arab Petroleum Investment Corp. assessed that every GCC energy producer planned to slash investment in crude oil and natural gas from 2015. Titled “Arab Energy Investment Outlook Opportunities, Constraints and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Libya has launched a war for control over the vast oil revenues. One of Libya’s two governments said it would block payment of oil revenues through bank accounts in Tripoli. The recognized government led by Prime Minister Abdullah Al Thini said it would control oil revenues through the state-owned National […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States could slow down approval of weapons sales to the Middle East due to tensions between the Obama administration and Congress. Officials said new legislation passed by Congress would require the administration of President Barack Obama to explain how U.S. arms sales would change the balance of power […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The International Criminal Court, lacking cooperation by the United Nations, has shelved plans to prosecute Sudanese President Omar Bashir. ICC said the Security Council failed to pressure African and Middle East states to arrest Bashir, charged with war cimes linked to the killing of 300,000 people in the western Sudanese […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Two Gulf Cooperation Council states have dropped in ratings by a leading U.S. agency. Standard and Poor’s lowered the outlook of Saudi Arabia from positive to stable amid the decline in crude oil prices and the boom in shale oil production in the United States. The U.S. agency also reduced […]