Middle East Experience

Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Intel: How the Syria pullout highlights Pentagon-Bolton tensions

Al-Monitor dissects Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's Jan. 10 speech and President Barack Obama's 2009 address to the Muslim World.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: A study in contrasts: Pompeo vs. Obama on the Middle East

Iranian media and Iranians in general mostly snubbed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech in Cairo.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Pompeo speech fails to make waves in Iranian media

While Europe says it remains committed to the nuclear deal with Iran, the US withdrawal from the accord has created overcompliance with sanctions among banks that has made life difficult for Iranian students in Europe; however, Iranian students in the United States tell Al-Monitor they have not experienced such difficulties.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: US sanctions hit Iranian students seeking bank accounts in Europe

Hamas insists on Qatari money; Iran offers training for Palestinian factions; Russia wrestles with its limits in Syria; UAE leads GCC rapprochement with Damascus.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iran plays Hamas card ahead of Israeli elections

The US exit from Syria means the set of challenges facing Moscow in the region is significantly changing.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: As US exits Syria, what will define Moscow's Mideast policy in 2019?

Two firefighters and a Spanish tourist were killed when a gas leak sparked a huge explosion near a bakery in central Paris on Saturday, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Forty-seven others
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: Paris gas explosion: Three killed, among them a Spanish tourist

In an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined Washington’s three main priorities in the Middle East which include countering Iran, destroying
Source: Al Arabiya
Full Article: EXCLUSIVE: Pompeo talks Iran, ISIS and regional stability with Al Arabiya

The Likud and the right-wing bloc is positioned to win the Israeli elections, and most of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition partners will agree to join him again even if he is indicted.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Israeli right likely to maintain support for Netanyahu if indicted

Israeli security experts warn that growing Chinese involvement in infrastructure projects could endanger the country’s security.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Does China endanger Israel’s security?