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  • What Iran’s Purchase of Russian Jets Means for Regional Security

    The Su-35, which made its debut in Dubai in 2003, will certainly be a quantum leap for the Iranian fleet from a technological standpoint. Some analysts, including Daniel Urchick of Aviation Week, argue that Iran will have trouble operating them due to the Su-35’s complexity of maintenance and supply chain. However, the Su-35 is not that advanced, and Iran is a relatively well-developed country with a strong technological base and prior experience with Russian technology.

  • Saudi Aramco Says ESG Investing Threatens Energy Security

    “If ESG-driven policies are implemented with an automatic bias against any and all conventional energy projects, the resulting underinvestment will have serious implications. For the global economy. For energy affordability. And for energy security.”

  • China’s Mideast buildup stirs security worries for U.S.

    Chinese state-owned firms are building up their presence near the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East, a new report says, raising the risks of a future clash with U.S. interests in one of the world’s busiest oil transitways. The growing footprint of Chinese commercial activity in the area, including billions of dollars in investments in oil pipelines and storage terminals alongside the Persian Gulf, is fueling worries from U.S. national security hawks who fear it could provide Beijing with dangerous influence over a major choke point for petroleum shipments.

  • How the Energy Crisis Impacts Global Food Insecurity

    The latest data from the FAO marks 29.3% of the entire world population to be moderately or severely food insecure, with 40% of this population experiencing severe food insecurity.

  • Davos 2023: Saudi-US partnership is crucial for global security, says Saudi envoy

    "Yes there was a moment of conflict and disagreement, but that doesn't take away from the fact that we are both strategic allies and we are friends, and this relationship is critical for the world," envoy Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud said at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

  • U.S.-Saudi ties are in flux as tensions over oil and security persist

    Gulf nations don't see it as being in their national interest to take sides in rivalries between the U.S. and other world powers, says Elham Fakhro, a Bahraini research fellow at Britain's University of Exeter. There's no upside for them in ostracizing Russia, for example, or losing out from trade benefits with China, whose leader Xi Jinping visited Saudi Arabia last month.

  • Border security discussed at landmark Syrian-Turkish talks-Turkish official

    Landmark talks between the Syrian and Turkish defence ministers in Moscow included border security and how Turkey can act jointly against Kurdish militants, a senior Turkish official said, after a meeting underlining thawing ties between the foes. Wednesday's meeting was the highest-level encounter reported between the sides since the start of the Syrian war more than a decade ago. Turkey has played a major part in the conflict, backing President Bashar al-Assad's opponents and sending troops into the north.

  • UN Security Council express deep concern over political deadlock in Libya

    The Security Council on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the persistent political deadlock in Libya almost one year after elections scheduled for Dec. 24, 2021, failed to materialize, and more than two years after the agreement of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum roadmap. In a press statement, the members of the Security Council expressed their disappointment at the lack of progress, which continues to risk the achievement of stability and the unity of the country. They called on all Libyan parties and key stakeholders to engage in dialogue with Abdoulaye Bathily, the UN secretary-general’s special representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), and with each other constructively in a spirit of compromise and consensus.

  • Arabs don’t do enough research on Middle East security

    I am working on a study that quantifies the research produced by locals vis-à-vis external researchers on the topic of Middle East security. To my dismay – but not my surprise – I found that despite the advantage that homegrown scholars in producing high quality research, they still account for a minority of the scholarship on the region’s security architecture. This contrasted with other regions, such as South Asia or Eastern Europe, where local researchers were the main contributors.

  • Greenhouses to vertical farming: The Middle East’s path to foolproof food security

    “Food security and food sufficiency do not go hand in hand,” explained Tester. He added that countries in the Middle East, including GCC member nations, should diversify their sources of food, while simultaneously investing in technology that can accomplish internal sourcing. Pointing to England’s current egg shortage as an example, Tester advised: “Don’t put your eggs in one basket and don’t source all your eggs from the same chickens in the same barn, because when that chicken barn goes down, bang, look at what’s happening in England.”