Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 25 May – 5 June 2015 The ‘plate’ that fell and broke is Ramadi. And the juggler, of course is President

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Alastair Crooke, Huffington Post, 1 June 2015 The talk now is all about whether Syria and Iraq will end up as divided states. The impetus

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Alastair Crooke, Huggington Post, 29 April 2015 Saudi Arabia has announced the end to its campaign in Yemen, but nevertheless air attacks against Ansar Allah

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 1-8 May 2015 The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just released a remarkably frank policy document which, given the Council’s

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 10-17 April 2015 The Lausanne ‘joint’ statement on the outlines of a nuclear agreement has already – with any final settlement

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Alastair Crooke, Valdai Discussion Club, 11 April 2015 It has been customary to consider the energy business in terms of political risk (governments falling, internal

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Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 3-10 April 2015 Paradoxically, the attempt by the two parties after two-and-a half years of nuclear negotiations to set out jointly

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Alastair Crooke, Huffington Post, 6 April 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/america-iran-saudi-war_b_7001776.html?utm_hp_ref=world&utm_hp_ref=world  BEIRUT — The Middle East plainly gets it now: the U.S., after wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, inter alia,

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Note: an edited version of this commentary by CF director, Alastair Crooke, was published on 26 March 2015 in the Huffington Post – see here). As recent attention

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