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The liberation of Mosul, Raqqa and Idlib... but then what?
Mosul is finally liberated; Raqqa is expected to follow the same path in the coming weeks as well as the Euphrates Valley where the last jihadists of ISIS are being eliminated. The self-proclaimed...
Macron attempts a gamble in LibyaThe joint statement adopted - but not signed - by Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and his rival General Khalifa Haftar at Celle St-Cloud in the Paris region on July 25 is a nice diplomatic...
Is Turkey scattered on all fronts?To say that the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are upraising both internally and externally is an understatement. One year after the failed coup in July 2016, Turkey is present on all...
Would Qatar’s bet on a draw succeed?Forty days after the outbreak of the Gulf crisis, the positions of Qatar and its rivals (Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates) seem to be congealed. No camp has won a peremptory...
Toward a new Russian-American order in the Middle East?Are Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin drawing their respective lines of influence in the Middle East? Five years after the so-called Arab Spring, the two presidents are assessing this geopolitical...
Gulf crisis: A difficult situation for French diplomacyAs soon as he arrived at the Elysée, President Emmanuel Macron faced a crisis as serious as the Middle East issue. The tension between Qatar and other Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia, UAE and...