Posted on Wed, September 16, 2015 at 23:44 pm CEST
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The Arab States and the Refugees

The refugee crisis has exposed the abject failure of the EU, the UN, the OIC or anybody else to criticize the bloated Arab nations of the Gulf… Read more

Topics: Arab World • Bahrain • Europe • Human Rights • Kuwait • Multiculturalism • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Wed, September 25, 2013 at 21:35 pm CEST
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Mr. Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah, Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait, Addresses General Assembly, 68th session, 2013

Sheikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah, Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly… Continue reading

Topics: Diplomacy • Kuwait • United Nations 
Posted on Fri, February 22, 2013 at 00:04 am CET
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Kuwait Expels Thousands of Palestinians

Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers… Continue reading

Topics: History • Kuwait • Palestine Liberation Organization • Palestinian Arabs 
Posted on Sun, January 13, 2013 at 18:40 pm CET
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Hezbollah’s Terrorist Activities during the 1980s

Hezbollah’s terrorist activity during the first years of its existence focused on the United States and France, the main targets of a wave of terrorist attacks in Lebanon and elsewhere… Continue reading

Topics: Anti-Americanism • Anti-Christianism • Anti-Israelism • Anti-Westernism • France • Global Jihad • Hezbollah • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Islamic Terrorism • Jew-Hatred • Kuwait • Lebanon • Religion • Security and Defense • Shia Islam 
Posted on Mon, April 9, 2012 at 20:52 pm CEST
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The Muslim Brotherhood in the United Arab Emirates

Qatar became a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold in 1954, when a group of its activists found refuge there… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Global Islam • Islamism • Jihadism • Kuwait • Muslim Brotherhood • Oman • Religion • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Fri, September 23, 2011 at 18:15 pm CEST
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Sheikh Naser Al-Mohammad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

End the Israeli occupation of all the Arab territories it occupied after 4 June 1967, including the Syrian Golan… Continue reading

Topics: Kuwait • United Nations 
Posted on Wed, April 20, 2011 at 17:58 pm CEST
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Iranian Press Criticizes Persian Gulf Rulers

The tensions between Iran and the Persian Gulf states have escalated in recent days on the backdrop of the ongoing political crisis in Bahrain… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • GCC • Iran • Kuwait • Saudi Arabia • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam 
Posted on Tue, April 19, 2011 at 17:49 pm CEST
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Saudis give up on US, instigate direct Gulf action against Iran

After giving up on US and Israel ever confronting Iran, Saudi Arabia has gone out on a limb against the Obama administration… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • GCC • Iran • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Wed, April 13, 2011 at 00:16 am CEST
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Iran: Kuwait’s Allegations of Espionage Serve Zionists’ Interests

Iran rejected Kuwait’s recent allegations saying that the “baseless claims” only serve Zionist regime’s interests… Continue reading

Topics: Iran • Kuwait 
Posted on Tue, April 12, 2011 at 19:01 pm CEST
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Saudi Arabia, Gulf States: Iran Is Attacking Us; Obama Administration: Excuses, Excuses!

How sadly ironic. A few years ago, the two previous U.S. presidents were trying to get Gulf Arab states to do more to foster an… Continue reading

Topics: Bahrain • Iran • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Arab Emirates 
Posted on Mon, March 14, 2011 at 21:13 pm CET
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Foreign Troops go into Bahrain

Saudi and United Arab Emirates troops crossed into Bahrain Monday, March 14 to support the king against escalating anti-throne demonstrations… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • Egypt • Jordan • Kuwait • Saudi Arabia • Syria • U.S. Middle East Policy • United Arab Emirates • Yemen 
Posted on Fri, February 18, 2011 at 00:36 am CET
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Deadly Crackdown on Bahrain Protesters

Tanks rolled into Pearl Square, Manama, early Thursday, Feb. 17, personally commanded by King Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa in full military regalia, hours after… Continue reading

Topics: Arab Spring • Bahrain • Iran • Islamic Countries • Kuwait • Saudi Arabia • Shia Islam • The Middle East 
Posted on Sun, December 5, 2010 at 19:59 pm CET
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WikiLeaks: Golfstaten Fungeren Als Financieringsbron Voor Terrorisme

Counterterrorisme maatregelen van de Perzische Golfstaten tegen fondsenwerving door radicale Islamitische groeperingen als Al Qaida, Taliban en Lashkar-e-Taiba [LeT] hebben onvoldoende resultaat gehad. Dit lezen we in de geheime Amerikaanse memo’s die… Lees verder

Topics: Counter-terrorism • Funding Islamic Terrorism • Global Jihad • Kuwait • Nederlands • Pakistan • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • United Arab Emirates • United States of America • WikiLeaks 
Posted on Fri, December 3, 2010 at 22:12 pm CET
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North Korea to Supply Iran With Nuclear Bomb Components

In quiet contacts, French President Nicolas Sarkozy warns that North Korea is using its crisis with the South to cover up its planned transfer to Iran of nuclear weapons systems parts and extra-fast centrifuges for uranium enrichment that could help Tehran go into bomb production in… Continue reading

Topics: France • Iran • Kuwait • North Korea • Saudi Arabia • United States of America 
Posted on Sat, October 23, 2010 at 22:41 pm CEST
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Saudi and Egyptian Forces Carried Out Their First Ever Joint Exercise

Egypt and Saudi Arabia secretly carried out their first ever joint exercise this week with the participation of their special operations, marine, armored, missile, air and naval forces, debkafile’s military sources reveal… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Iran • Kuwait • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East • Yemen 
Posted on Wed, August 25, 2010 at 00:02 am CEST
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The Real Middle Eastern Cold War

This new Cold War represents the current ideological division in the Middle East between the “revolutionary bloc,” led chiefly by Iran, Syria, and more recently Turkey, and the “status-quo bloc,” led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt… Continue reading

Topics: Egypt • Global Islam • Hamas • Hezbollah • Iran • Iraq • Kuwait • Libya • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Shi'ism • Shia Islam • Sunni Islam • The Middle East • Turkey • United Arab Emirates • Yemen 
Posted on Wed, July 21, 2010 at 22:17 pm CEST
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The Survival of Traditional Regimes in the Persian Gulf

If you had told experts in the mid-1960s that a half-century later every king and emir then ruling in the Persian Gulf would still be there, most would have been astonished… Continue reading

Topics: Al-Qaeda • Bahrain • Global Islam • Islamic Fundamentalism • Kuwait • Oman • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • The Middle East • United Arab Emirates • Wahhabism 
Posted on Sun, July 18, 2010 at 19:57 pm CEST
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Hamas Circumvents France’s Ban on Al-Aqsa TV

On June 7, 2010, the French government instructed its broadcasting authority to terminate the transmissions of Al-Aqsa TV. Hamas activists took immediate action in an attempt to lift the ban… Continue reading

Topics: France • Hamas • Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center • Israel • Kuwait • The Media