The King of Saudi Arabia Skipped Obama’s Camp David Summit
While Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and deputy crown prince headed to America for a summit w...
Omar al-Bashir
Reported Israeli Raid on Sudan Could Reveal Khartoum’s Duplicity
Sudan may have joined the Saudi-led fight against Iran-backed p...
Policy Briefs
Saudi Arabia Tries to Flip Sudan
Sudanese President and internationally wanted man Omar al-Bashir landed in Riyadh on Wednesday to kick off his first official vis...
Policy Briefs
Why ‘Operation Decisive Resolve’ is the ultimate setback for Iran
Today’s Saudi-led international military intervention in Yemen, Operation Decisive Storm, is a decided setback for Iran’s regional ambitions. Officials in Tehran had been gloating abo...
Op-eds
Double Trouble: Beware of the Irani-Sudanese Partnership
It’s a rare day that the Sudan Tribune runs headlines that garner international attention. But on September 1, the...
Op-eds
Sandstorm
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
Op-eds
Smugglers Galore
How Iran arms its allies.
Op-eds
The Real Rules of the U.N. Human Rights Council
High-profile genocide is a no-no—but dictatorship, slavery, and anti-Semitism are A-OK.
Op-eds
Pariah State: Examining Sudan’s Support for Terrorism
***This article originally appeared in "State Sponsorship of Terrorism", a publication of IHS Defense, Risk and Security Consulting, in June 2012. Reproduced with permission © IHS (Global...
Op-eds
Common Threats, Different Approaches
Israel, the EU and the U.S. confront the challenge of a nuclear Iran Mr President of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Israeli Knesset, Honour...
Congressional Testimonies
Common Threats, Different Approaches
Israel, the EU and the U.S. confront the challenge of a nuclear Iran Mr President of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Israeli Knesset, Honour...
Op-eds
Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?
Op-eds
Self-Deception
When it comes to the jihadi threat, we’re now way beyond willful blindness.
Op-eds
Ban Ki-Moon Congratulates Iranian Fox for Guarding the Hen House?
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse, Iran is now offering to coordinate counter-terrorism activities for us all. At a two-day “counter-terrorism” conference just hosted...
Op-eds
Around the Troubled Horn
Even by the much-reduced expectations of the subregion, the news emanating from the geopolitically-sensitive, but ever-volatile Horn of Africa has not been at all good these last few weeks....
Op-eds
Sudan: Looming Crises, Strategic Opportunities
While international attention remains riveted on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the western Darfur region – it has been less than two weeks since an Antonov transport belonging to the S...
Op-eds
The War on Terrorism in Africa: Assessment and Prospects
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a good time both to take stock of where we have been and to look ahead at the paths we are likely to take and the battles which we will have to...
Op-eds
Enabling Mugabe to Cling On
Last Friday was the twenty-eighth anniversary of Zimbabwe's independence, although the country's long-suffering people of the country might be forgiven for not exactly marking the occas...
Op-eds
What’s at Stake in Sudan’s Abyei
In this column space three months ago, I warned that the tensions were so heightened that the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended the decades of civil war between the Arab-domin...
Op-eds
South Sudan: Simmering Below the Surface
Last Friday, seven Nigerian soldiers were laid to rest with full military honors in Abuja. The seven peacekeepers – along with one comrade each from Botswana, Mali, and Senegal – were...