The G20 is an economic club and it has traditionally stuck to that groove. And Saudi Arabia has traditionally been represented at G20 events by government ministers, usually the oil minister. But this time around, the Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, who is just a...
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US Doublespeak Hinders Afghan Peace
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Within hours of the announcement on Saturday by the Russian Foreign Ministry that the second meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan will take place on November 9, the US government-funded Radio Free Europe and Liberty has announced that the...
US-Russian Exchanges Gather Momentum
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
If a single exchange stood out during the tense interview of President Trump with the CBS News 60 Minutes on Sunday — Washington Post listed 8 of them — I would say it was when he tried to filibuster Lesley Stahl over the topic of ‘Russian meddling’ in the American...
US-Saudi Relations Enter Unchartered Waters
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
The disappearance of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi in mysterious circumstances while on a visit to his country’s consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday still remains unexplained. The plot is thickening by the day. The latest reports suggest that he may not even be...
India, Russia and the Post-American Century
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Sep 5, 2018 | Featured Articles
India’s impending purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system has come to be the leitmotif of the “2+2” dialogue of the foreign and defence ministers of India and the United States due to take place in New Delhi on September 6. However, the issue here is not about a...
The Ball is in Trump’s Court to Engage Iran
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
As I had written last week, a conversation of sorts has been under way between Washington and Tehran. The megaphone is no longer in use, the conversation is in civil tone from public platforms or more meaningfully, through the Twitter. It’s become an almost daily...
Trump Threatens Turkey with Sanctions. What if He’s Serious?
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 27, 2018 | Featured Articles
The frequency with which US President Donald Trump holds out threats to other countries is such that he is no longer being taken seriously. The list of countries threatened by Trump so far includes North Korea, Germany, Canada, China, Venezuela, Pakistan, Syria, Iran...
Russia Exposes British Lies on Skripal, but Trail Leads to US
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
The sensational case of the poisoning of the ex-MI6 agent and former Russian military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal on March 4 in Salisbury, in the UK, is becoming more and more curious. Under a blinding spotlight from Moscow, the British allegation regarding a...
US Attack on Syria is Futile but Serves a Purpose
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Apr 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
The United Nations Security Council turned down a compromise resolution on Syria, proposed by Sweden and seconded by Russia seeking investigation on the alleged chemical attack in Douma. Five countries supported the resolution with two permanent members – United...
US Feels Uneasy About Inter-Korean Amity
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 12, 2018 | Featured Articles
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has upset all doomsday predictions that once the Winter Olympics Games are over, the tensions on the Korean peninsula would reappear. Kim’s invitation to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to Pyongyang can be regarded as a "game...
The US-ISIS Nexus in Afghanistan Becomes Hot Topic
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Tehran has begun highlighting in loud decibel its hitherto-low key voice of disquiet that the United States is transferring the Islamic State* fighters from Syria and Iraq, where they have been defeated, to Afghanistan.On January 30, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei...
Russia Wades into Saudi-Iran Rift
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Oct 12, 2017 | Featured Articles
The remark Wednesday by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential envoy for the Middle East Mikhail Bogdanov offering Moscow’s mediation for a rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran comes within the week of the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz’s talks with...
What Afghan ‘Stalemate’ is All About
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Associated Press has carried an exclusive report regarding the intensive, on-going political dialogue between the Afghan government and the Taliban behind the scene, the appearance of a "stalemate" notwithstanding. That such contacts have been going on was a...
Iran Will be Trump’s Nemesis
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
The White House readout of US President Donald Trump’s phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday highlighted that the latter “thanked” Trump for his “strong leadership uniting the world against the North Korean menace.” Modi must be the only world leader...
Israel Precipitates New Tensions in Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Mar 21, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Israeli air attacks on Friday near Palmyra in Syria targeting what Tel Aviv claims to be a convoy ferrying weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon – and what Damascus alleges was a calculated act directed against the positions of the government forces fighting the...
Trump and Putin Begin Work on US-Russia Reset
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Russian President Vladimir Putin made the long-expected phone call to the US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday. It stands to reason that the presidential spokesman in the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, one of Putin’s closest aides, travelled to New York last week...
Turkey Prepares to Intervene in Mosul
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured Articles
The battle of Mosul has been joined, finally, as Iraqi Special Forces entered the city limits earlier today from the east. (BBC) The early reports suggest that the Islamic State fighters responded with guided anti-tank missiles and small arms to block the Iraqi...
Turkey Harmonises With Russia, Iran on Syria
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Aug 17, 2016 | Featured Articles
The reported remarks Monday by Turkish Prime Minister Binaldi Yildirim regarding a 3-step road map for ending the Syrian conflict would be the latest indication that Ankara is tiptoeing toward restoring Turkish-Syrian relations at the diplomatic and political level....
Strategic Shift? Putin to Receive Erdogan in Hometown
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jul 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The developments in Turkey are taking a dramatic turn. All Indications are that the Turkish government is in possession of definite information that the attempted military coup was orchestrated by the United States. (Anadolu) The Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag made an...
US Unleashes the Dogs of War in Afghanistan
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Jun 10, 2016 | Featured Articles
A statement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Thursday pointedly called on the ‘international community’ to respect Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It commended Pakistan’s contribution to the war against terrorism and stressed that the Afghan...
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