Victor Angelo

The caricature of a megalomaniac politician Victor Angelo   My text of last week on Islamist radicalism provoked several reactions. Th...

In addition to his domestic claims, President Trump wants to be seen by the American voters as an international statesman. That’s why he is ...

We are witnessing the emergence of a new campaign against Iran that includes “information” about that country’s growing presence in West ...

A week ago, I criticised the conveners of the Vienna meeting on Syria for not inviting the UN and EU. Now, after today´s new round of disc...

In Syria and Iraq, the main goals are by far to bring peace and stability back as well as to endeavour for democracy and rule of law. ...

We usually emphasise that each national crisis should have a political response and end up with an agreement between the parties. In the c...

The daily reports are clear. They point to a recent succession of military gains by the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS), both in Syria ...

The role and the goals of Qatar in Middle East and also in Africa need to be carefully scrutinised. The Qatari authorities were very much ...

The EU, and in particular the High Representative for Foreign Affairs, should spend more time engaging the North African countries on comm...

The Middle East, defined in broad terms to include both Egypt and Iran, and the countries in between, remains the most unstable region of ...

I am confronted quite often with questions about Qatar’s role in the Middle East and North Africa. A lot of well-informed observers have s...

The Syrian crisis has been pushed out of the TV screens by the situation in Egypt. And a lot of people in the West are feeling good about ...

The true message that came out of today’s Friends of Syria meeting is that the many rebellions are losing the war. That’s the actual trend...