The Maghreb is often treated as a coherent geopolitical region, yet beneath this label lies a complex landscape shaped by colonial legacies, competing national identities, and unresolved questions of cultural recognition. While post-indepen...
The West Asia region has fostered complex geopolitical tactics coupled with fragile alliances and coalitions. Coalition Politics in the Middle-East region, has comprised of many volatile and make-shift alliances over the years between state...
The Gaza conflict, triggered after the October 7th attacks and the prolonged military response that followed, has proven to be a critical inflection point in the West Asian Geopolitics. What had begun as a localized conflict, soon engulfed ...
The evolution of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has reshaped modern defence in the 21st century, emerging as a critical resource often described as “the new oil.” This article traces OSINT’s trajectory from its early reliance on manual da...
Proxy warfare is a strategic tool through which powerful states influence conflicts abroad while minimising direct military, political, and financial costs. This report outlines the evolution, types, benefits, and risks associated with prox...
The Middle East region has been marked by a long-standing rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, fuelled by sectarian, ideological, and strategic factors. The escalation of tensions between the two powers in recent years has contributed to ...
In 2005, Ayman al-Zawahiri as the second in command of al-Qaeda wrote a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi stating that “We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media” [1]. Earlier, terror...
Terrorism in Syria has a protracted record courting from the Islamist Uprising withinside the early Eighties and to the continued Syrian Civil War which witnessed the rise of radical Islamist organizations including ISIL, al-Nusra and diffe...
The months of September and October mark the historic protest in Egyptian capital Cairo’s Tahrir Square against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) who assumed power in the backdrop of the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak during...
In the wake of Iraq’s fifth parliamentary elections which are scheduled for the coming week on October 10th, the political dynamics of the country have come a long way since the U.S. invasion of 2003. Since the toppling of Saddam Hussein an...
"Arab Spring" became the turning point in the history of the Middle East, especially Syria, among others. The movement that started in December of 2010 Changed the face of many countries in the region. However, Syria stood out to be distinc...
UAE has witnessed unparalleled growth in the past decade, and that holds true for its space sector too. It aims to be one of the top countries in the aerospace sector by the end of 2021. In the past 5 years, UAE has launched several space p...
