Tag: Gulf states

France sides with IMF over Lebanon crisis

France told Lebanon on Thursday that it had no option but to accept an IMF deal to help it out of a dire financial crisis and that Beirut must enact reforms urgently if it is to win foreign aid. Lebanon desperately needs such aid as it wrestles with a financial meltdown rooted in decades of […]

Gulf states need to work on their web speeds

Quite disappointingly, the Gulf states have not achieved outstanding results in the 2018 report concerning internet speeds. The best performance among Arab nations was Bahrain’s, but it could place only 90th worldwide, far behind South Asia and Europe, according to rankings compiled by cable.co.uk. Of the other GCC countries, the UAE was at 101st, Saudi […]

Dar Al-Handasah Consultants Celebrates the Diamond Jubilee

Beirut- Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair & Partners) has reached a momentous milestone,celebrating 60 years of ongoing success, innovation, and leadership in planning, design, project management and consultancy. To mark this achievement, a press conference, followed by a luncheon, was held on November 16, at Phoenicia Hotel- Beirut, Lebanon, in the effective presence of the Board […]

Hillary Clinton Calls On Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait To Stop Funding Terrorism

By Tim Hains -- Hillary Clinton says that it is "long past time" for the leaders of countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia to make sure that their citizens are not allowed to provide money and support to terrorist groups. HILLARY CLINTON: The third area that demands attention is preventing radicalization and countering efforts by […]

Gulf states declare Hezbollah a 'terrorist' organization

THE LEVANT NEWS -- The Saudi-led bloc of Gulf monarchies has officially labelled Hezbollah a 'terrorist' group for the first time. The move comes amid heightened tensions between those countries and Lebanon. Hezbollah flags Tensions between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon over an ongoing dispute involving Iran escalated on Wednesday when the Riyadh-led Gulf Cooperation Council […]

Israel-GCC Ties

The Levant News -- by Simon Henderson for inFocus Quarterly - Fall 2015 -- How does one write 2,000 words about links between Israel and the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which no official of any of the seven countries is publicly prepared to admit exist? The answer is "with difficulty." And […]

Is Saudi Arabia on a hazardous adventure?

The Levant News -- by Ghassan Michel Rubeiz, Washington -- At great risk, Saudi Arabia confronts Iran in rhetoric and on the battlefield in Syria and Yemen. The National Council on US-Arab Relations, NCUSAR, is an established Washington intercultural agency focused on Arab Gulf interests. This year’s Iran meeting (October 14-15) was the 24th Arab-US Policymakers Conference. As a […]

Refugees and Responsibilities

The Levant News - by Graham E. Fuller -- The picture last week of the little Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi dead on the beach in Turkey is one of those iconic pictures whose intense human face forces deeper reflection, especially upon publics for whom distant tragedies tend to be statistics rather than specific human stories. I […]

Gen. Wesley Clark: “ISIS Got Started With Funding From Our Closest Allies”

By Daniel McAdams for Global Research, Many remember General Wesley Clark as the man who almost started World War III by ordering the British to fire on Russian peacekeepers who landed in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, before the Americans. British commander of the international KFOR peacekeeping force, General Sir Mike Jackson, is reported to have […]

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