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PhD Eng. Stelian TEODORESCU
The British Ministry of Defence announced that it will host a conference with representatives from 30 countries to discuss the formation of an international mission to ensure the security of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The leaders’ aim is to launch the “Freedom of Navigation Initiative in the Strait of Hormuz”.
22/04/2026 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Gargi AWASTHI
Interview with Barry SHAW - Israel Institute for Strategic Studies
16/04/2026 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Gargi AWASTHI
The weaponization of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran involves using its strategic location to threaten global energy supplies (~25% of seaborne oil) as retaliation against U.S.-Israeli strikes.
02/04/2026 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
PhD Eng. Stelian TEODORESCU
We are witnessing an armed confrontation between the state of Israel and Hezbollah, a faction supported by Iran, a competition that could turn into a regional war, a threat to the whole world.
21/09/2024 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
PhD Nicolae RADU
The recent developments in the Middle East place Ukraine in the backseat and shake the energy market.
09/10/2023 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Eva J. KOULOURIOTIS
This peace agreement between the State of Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain was presented by the American and Israeli media as well as the two Arab countries, as the most important of the last decades. But the Middle East observers are facing a difficult test on how to present it and analyse what follows, given that this peace deal was made between countries that are not in a real state of conflict or war.
01/10/2020 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Eva J. KOULOURIOTIS
With Trump's arrival at the White House and in the light of his statements and promises as part of his campaign, many believed that the Iranian regime, with all its military forces, security and militia apparatuses, would be in front of hell, as was the case with the Ba'athist regime in Baghdad earlier this century. In fact, his foreign policy during the first months of his presidency confirmed what he promised. The nuclear deal touted by the Obama administration as a major achievement, with a Trump signature, has become a reflection. He then made a number of steps to hit Tehran
16/07/2020 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Eva J. KOULOURIOTIS
The Turkish Defense Ministry announced the launch of two military operations aimed at military posts of the PKK and Yazidi militias linked to it, in the Sinjar, Qandil, Makhmur and Haftanin areas, during which Turkish army used its air force, including drones.
10/07/2020 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Amb. Prof. Dumitru CHICAN
On the night of the 25th of March 2015 a multinational coalition consisting of 150,000 people, led by Saudi Arabia, started a devastating war in Yemen.
In the five years of armed conflict, the structure of the Yemeni front has been defined by its mobility, volatility and by the temporary lines between the combatants.
07/07/2020 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
Amb. Prof. Dumitru CHICAN
The 10th of June 2020 marked the 20-year anniversary of the death of the former Syrian president, after almost 30 years of governing that ended with his son, Bashar Al-Assad, being instated as supreme leader. It marked the first Arab hereditary republic in the Middle East and ensured the continuity of the Al-Assad Alawite family at the control board of absolute power over Syria and its society.
Today, the anniversary of the death of the former Syrian leader chronologically marks 20 years since Bashar Al-Assad started governing Syria, as well as 50 years since the Assad family have been its supreme leaders – the longest gerontocracy in the modern history of the Arab Middle East and Maghrib.
15/06/2020 Free Readings Region: Middle East Topic: Conflicts
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