Despite weeks of intensive negotiations and multiple official visits between Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region, a final ...

The MED This Week newsletter provides informed insights on the most significant developments in the MENA region, bringing together unique opinions and reliable foresight on future scenarios. Today, we ...

The new EU sanctions include a lower oil price cap, the designation of the “biggest Rosneft refinery in India”, and measures ...

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As the region wakes to fresh developments, tensions, diplomacy and resilience define the headlines. From shifting alliances ...

Despite international pledges and technological advancements, gas flaring intensity—the volume of gas flared per barrel of oil produced—has remained largely unchanged for 15 years.

Farmers in Kurdistan's Bitwen Plain are harvesting their famed sunflowers, renowned as Iraq's best, but severe drought ...

Iran is boiling with 18 out of 31 provinces across the country including Tehran witnessing extreme temperatures.  Much of the ...

For years, the West has oscillated between deterrence and diplomacy. The June war and the economic aftershocks that followed offer a third way: erosion.

Poverty in Iran had become so widespread that in 2021, Feryal Most warned of the middle class collapsing and merging into the poor population ...

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When Vajpayee came out onto the lawns to meet ministers and well-wishers, someone placed a pagri on his head. One by one, ...