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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic in Moscow’s Kremlin October 30, 2013. REUTERS/Michael Klimentyev/RIA Novosti/Kremlin (RUSSIA – Tags: POLITICS) ATTENTION EDITORS – THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Debate: Russia cannot play a major role in the Middle East

by Richard Weitz | Nov 4, 2013 | Debate

Under both the previous Soviet government and its new Russian Federation, Moscow has sought to play a major role in the Middle East. Except on rare occasions, this aspiration has been thwarted. In recent years, Russia has been largely sidelined from the Arab Spring,...

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A groom who is a member of the Orphan Foundation for Development, wearing his traditional attire attends a mass wedding ceremony in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. The mass wedding was organized by Orphan Foundation of Development for 4,000 brides and grooms, supported by the former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al […]

Opinion: Yemen can and should end child marriage now

by Houriah Mashhour | Nov 2, 2013 | Debate

Child marriage is a phenomenon found around the world, including in Arab societies. Yemen is the most prominent of the Arab countries where child marriage is at issue. Child marriage is found most frequently in rural, poverty-stricken areas. However, poverty is not...

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Sudanese people living in Egypt wave their national flags and shout slogans against Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his government during a protest outside Sudan’s embassy in Cairo October 3, 2013. (REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

Debate: Sudan’s national salvation government has reached a dead end

by Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi | Oct 27, 2013 | Debate

In this day and age, no regime can be stable unless it meets four conditions: its legitimacy is accepted by a critical section of the people, it ensures security, it provides suitable means of living, and it receives international approval. The Sudanese regime has...

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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir leaves after the Extra Ordinary session on the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union on the case of African Relationship with International Criminal Court (ICC), in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, October 12, 2013 (REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri)

Debate: Sudan’s national salvation government will survive

by Rabie Abdelati Obeid | Oct 27, 2013 | Debate

The idea that Sudan’s national salvation government has reached a dead end and will not survive simply cannot be justified, because it has worked tirelessly in its quest to secure opportunities for political participation for all active forces in Sudanese...

Debate: The Egypt-Turkey rift is a victory for Iran

by Fathi Abu Bakr Al-Maraghi | Oct 3, 2013 | Debate

Despite the sectarian, ethnic, linguistic, and ideological diversity in the Middle East, there are some ground rules governing the political arena in the region. It is true that some of these rules are not as much logical as customary, others are considered to be...

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Debate: The Egypt-Turkey rift is not a victory for Iran

by Maziar Behrooz | Oct 3, 2013 | Debate

Much of the ruling establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran welcomed the Arab Spring when it broke out in Tunisia and Egypt. After all, events in those two countries removed two secular and pro-American Arab regimes that had been on hostile terms with Iran. This...