Saudi ministers meet UK's defense secretary to strengthen bilateral ties    Saudi-French Ministerial Committee holds second meeting to advance AlUla development    Abo Noghta Castles in Tabab joins UNESCO's Best Tourism Villages list    RSAF and Saudi Falcons captivate audiences at Bahrain airshow    Mike Tyson slaps Jake Paul during final face-off    South Africa's Mia le Roux pulls out of Miss Universe pageant    US hacker sentenced over Bitcoin heist worth billions    Ten dead in fire at Spanish retirement home    UN climate talks 'no longer fit for purpose' say key experts    Questions raised over Portugal's capacity to host Europe's largest annual tech event    Delhi shuts all primary schools as hazardous smog worsens    Riyadh lights up as Celine Dion and Jennifer Lopez dazzle at Elie Saab's 45th-anniversary celebration    Mohammed Al-Habib Real Estate Co. sets Guinness World Record with largest continuous concrete pour    Australia and Saudi Arabia settle for goalless draw in AFC Asian Qualifiers    PIF completes largest-ever accelerated bookbuild offering in MENA region    Saudi Arabia's inflation rate hits 1.9% in October, the highest in 14 months    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    South Korean actor Song Jae Lim found dead at 39    Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn    Saudi Champion Saeed Al-Mouri scores notable feat in Radical World Championship in Abu Dhabi with support from Bin-Shihon Group    France to deploy 4,000 police officers for UEFA Nations League match against Israel    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

Articles of the author Peter App
By staying in office, British PM May courts disaster
DESPITE her dramatic electoral upset, British Prime Minister Theresa May appears determined to stay in office. In the short term, she could yet manage it. But the longer-term consequences may well be disastrous for her country. Negotiations on the (...)

12 - 06 - 2017
Calm down, America. Attacks won't break Britain.
WHEN I rolled my wheelchair out of my apartment block last Sunday morning - mere hours after three attackers killed seven a few hundred yards away in London Bridge and Borough Market - the most striking thing was the sense of calm. American (...)

09 - 06 - 2017
In standing up to Trump, Europe gets its mojo back
IF President Donald Trump wanted to make an impression with his first visit to Europe last week, he unquestionably succeeded. In their own ways, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron this weekend signaled just how (...)

02 - 06 - 2017
Europe's rising tide of attacks show diminishing political effect
It shouldn't be a surprise that Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) was quick to claim responsibility for Monday's suicide attack in Manchester that killed 22 people. As its last territory in Iraq's second city of Mosul falls to US-backed Iraqi forces (...)

25 - 05 - 2017
Europe dodges a bullet, but far right dangers remain
The outpouring of international relief over the French far right failing to seize the presidency says a lot about the febrile nature of modern Western politics. Europe has dodged a bullet, and the victory of Emmanuel Macron is, in the broader sense (...)

11 - 05 - 2017
As cyber warfare turns 10, the West risks falling behind
When Estonia became the first nation on the receiving end of an overwhelming cyber attack 10 years ago last week, government and other critical websites and systems such as banking collapsed in one of the most internet-connected countries of the (...)

07 - 05 - 2017
Chaos and confusion, but some foreign policy wins for Trump
When US President Donald Trump ordered cruise-missile strikes on a Syrian air base shortly after this month's chemical weapons attack, some Obama administration veterans were openly impressed. We "never would have gotten this done in 48 hours," one (...)

27 - 04 - 2017
The next superweapon could be biological
With the threat of chemical weapons in Syria and nuclear arms in North Korea, the risk of biological weapons has largely dropped off the international agenda. But evolving technologies and genetic engineering may open the door to new dangers. Other (...)

23 - 04 - 2017
Europe on knife-edge of uncertainty
MARCH 2017 is an uncomfortable time to be a European. Almost wherever you look, traditional certainties are unraveling in the face of a perfect storm of crises. This week Britain will trigger Article 50, firing the starting gun on its departure from (...)

16 - 03 - 2017
Is Beijing outflanking the United States in the South China Sea?
For much of the last week, the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson has been patrolling the South China Sea. It is just the kind of display of Washington's power and global reach that the US Navy excels at - both to reassure allies and, in this case, (...)

04 - 03 - 2017
North Korea gives Trump a nuclear crisis from hell
George W. Bush invaded Iraq to remove its - ultimately nonexistent - weapons of mass destruction. Barack Obama used cyber weaponry and sanctions to deter Iran from building its own atomic bomb. Now Donald Trump faces North Korea, but stopping its (...)

15 - 02 - 2017
Could Trump actually be good for European defense?
EVEN as President Donald Trump described NATO as "obsolete" barely a week before taking office, the United States was completing its largest move of troops and armor to Europe in decades. Other NATO states, meanwhile - particularly those closest to (...)

11 - 02 - 2017
The lessons of Aleppo's long, pointless siege
In its 7,000 years of existence, Aleppo has been fought over by Babylonians, Greeks and Romans. The modern battle for the ancient Syrian city, however, may yet be as significant for the future of the Middle East as those fought by the kingdoms and (...)

15 - 12 - 2016
Trump's brave new world of Twitter diplomacy
When it comes to managing relations with China, Donald Trump is tearing up the rulebook. First by using Twitter to announce his telephone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, and then in his Sunday afternoon complaints over Beijing's economic (...)

08 - 12 - 2016
Despite Brexit turmoil, British politics is healthy
"Brexit means Brexit," Theresa May has said repeatedly since becoming British Prime Minister more than two months ago. Now we know what that almost nonsensical phrase actually means - a tougher and much more complete extraction from the European (...)

06 - 10 - 2016
US-Philippine spat plays into China's hands
IF you're a historic US ally under mounting pressure from an emerging superpower like China, it's probably not a good idea to use a crude sexual epithet to describe the American president. Filipino leader Rodrigo Duterte, though, is far from a (...)

09 - 09 - 2016
In Syria, Russia and the United States fight for the Middle East
Two years into Washington's war against Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS), it may finally be winning. At the same time, however, its influence over events in the broader Middle East seems perhaps terminally in decline. What happens in the coming months (...)

20 - 08 - 2016
Is Vladimir Putin deliberately destabilizing US politics?
When WikiLeaks dumped tens of thousands of often embarrassing internal Democratic Party emails, it didn't take long for the finger to be pointed at Moscow. In many ways, that should hardly be surprising. The distinctly idiosyncratic dynamic between (...)

30 - 07 - 2016
How much worse could 2016 get?
In some ways, the most worrying thing about 2016 is that there are still more than five months of it left. Given just how much bad news has been packed into the year so far, the question has to be asked - what else could go wrong? The answer, of (...)

29 - 07 - 2016
Can Washington prevent war in Southeast Asia?
I WROTE last week that the risk of war in Europe was back. This week, unfortunately, the likelihood of confrontation in Asia seems to be spiking higher as well. Two events in particular have driven this development, separate but subtly interlinked. (...)

16 - 07 - 2016
May, Merkel, Clinton — the year of female leaders?
IT now seems extremely likely that by the middle of January 2017, three of the world's six largest economic powers will be led by women. Unless Donald Trump makes significant gains, the latest Reuters Ipsos poll still puts Hillary Clinton ahead of (...)

13 - 07 - 2016
Risk of war returns to Europe
A century ago this weekend, my great-grandfather — a corporal in the Liverpool-recruited King's Regiment — was waiting to go "over-the-top" at the Somme. Sent to pick up the company ration before the assault, he slept and woke up after the action — (...)

08 - 07 - 2016
How long before North Korea can nuke a US city?
It's the near future, and North Korea's regime is on the brink of collapse. As rumors swirl of palace coups, forces on both sides of the world's most militarized border are on heightened alert. The US military faces a much bigger problem. Somewhere (...)

04 - 06 - 2016
Emerging capital controls could trap investors
Facing financial crisis and capital flight, troubled emerging economies may well follow Iceland in cutting rates and raising capital controls – leaving panic-stricken foreign investors struggling to get out. That would represent a reversal of the (...)

18 - 10 - 2008
Security forces blamed for Lanka aid massacre
A rights group report on Tuesday blamed local security forces for the massacre of 17 Sri Lankan tsunami aid workers in 2006 and accused the government of an outright coverup. At the time, the killing of the local workers from aid group Action (...)

02 - 04 - 2008
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