The Globalist

From Yemen’s qat obsession and water crisis to its youth bulge and role in the Middle East, our top features on Yemen.

From politics to religion, The Globalist presents its top features on Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Why it is not only smart, but mandatory for mature powers to stop being overly ambitious in the field of foreign policy.

The cost of letting US policy be determined primarily by the ambitions of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

When sports loses its conflict-transcending character: Saudi and Iranian religious scholars agree that football poses a threat.

The West was not only happy to flirt with Mubarak. It is also still in bed with plenty of bad guys.

Continuing violence in Syria is the most severe indictment of the international community’s ability to provide for peace and security.

Senior Obama administration officials were aware from 2012 that a war to overthrow Assad would inevitably become a sectarian bloodbath.

How Western powers are nice to rich Saudi Arabia and assist it in covering up its disastrous war tracks.

With mosques under surveillance, IS turns to soccer for recruitment