Once completed, the 2,177-kilometer GCC Railway will connect six Gulf kingdoms and provide alternative routes to Europe and Asia.
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The Gulf Cooperation Council was formed after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Since then, GCC members have tried different strategies to contend with Tehran.
The war has deepened animosity across the Gulf region.
While the UAE and Saudi Arabia can at least partly circumvent the Strait of Hormuz, other Gulf states are less fortunate.
Missiles and drones have rained down on cities across the Gulf since the start of the conflict in the Middle East.
Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.
Qatar, the UAE and other Gulf nations have spent years cultivating an image of being an oasis of stability in the Mideast. The current war risks undoing all that work.
As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.
By using its drone and missile arsenal on its neighbours, Iran is telling the region, and the world, the regime will not go quietly.
A change in the voting age wouldn’t have major advantages in South Africa.
Mongolia, Norway and Kuwait all have one. So too do Texas, Alaska and New Mexico. But a US fund to invest in projects of national interest needs to be free of political interference.
During the first Trump administration, intelligence workers at many levels made political judgments about the information they assembled.
War is often described as long periods of waiting punctuated by short periods of terror – for the environment, the reverse is true.
Gulf monarchies emerged from the Arab Spring relatively unscathed, while some Middle East republics were devastated by civil war. Here’s how they managed — and how education may have played a part.
Qatar’s decision to aid Turkey in the face of American sanctions against the country may finally be a snub too far for its close relationship with the US.
Public disaffection in Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries betrays deep-seated tensions beneath the surface.
Kuwait has first-hand experience of how financial and political shocks can stifle investor confidence in the entire region.
What’s so ‘brotherly’ about a major diplomatic spat?
The International Olympic Committee could suspend Kenya, putting it in the company of Kuwait.
Attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia come against a backdrop of increasing extremist violence across the world.
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