#bilateral_relations

U.S. Policies in the #Middle_East under the Trump Presidency
▻http://orientxxi.info/magazine/u-s-policies-in-the-middle-east-under-the-trump-presidency,1808

Donald Trump has not yet formulated a clear foreign policy doctrine. Bur state appointments as well as the first decisions taken about #Syria or #Yemen, or the decision to use the most powerful US non-atomic bomb in Afghanistan, reveal some broad orientations of the future US policy in the Middle East. President Trump undertook the first substantive foreign policy initiative of his presidency on April 5 when he authorized U.S. military action in the aftermath of the chemical weapons attack (...)

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/ Syria, Yemen, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Middle East, #International_relations, #Geopolitics, #Bilateral_relations, #Saudi_Arabia, United (...)

#United_Arab_Emirates_UAE_ #United_States

A Turbulent Time in Saudi-Egyptian Relations
▻http://orientxxi.info/magazine/a-turbulent-time-in-saudi-egyptian-relations,1627

The failed attempts to mediate between #Egypt and #Saudi_Arabia by several Golf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, have confirmed the extent to which the two countries distrust one another. And yet only a few months ago they appeared bound by a strategic alliance. What has happened? “Can you name one single conflict in this region about which Riyadh and Cairo see eye to eye?” This rhetorical question came from a journalist in the offices of the very official daily paper Al Ahram. (...)

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/ Egypt, #Diplomacy, #Bilateral_relations, #Reporting, Saudi Arabia

“►http://www.madamasr.com/en/2016/12/05/news/u/case-to-determine-sovereignty-of-tiran-and-sanafir-islands-adjourned-to-de”
“►http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Lerman-Eran-Saudi-Egyptian-Tensions-PP-384-4-Dec-2016.pdf”
“►http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/12/israel-saudi-arabia-egypt-us-sunni-axis-abdel-fattah-al-sisi.html”