Can Sezer   Efforts to clean up Turkey’s bad debt have stalled after bankers rejected or put on hold initial plans, according to people familiar with the matter, frustrating the country’s attempts to leave behind the worst of last year’s...

Faisal Alshammeri               The ability of nations to project power is multifold. The United States has the backing of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, the largest economy in the world, and an embarrassment of military riches...

Mohammad Al-Issa   As tensions mount in the Middle East, it might be easy from the West to imagine the Islamic world locked in an internecine political struggle, with each side wielding threats of open conflict and the violent rhetoric...

Abhijit Mukhopadhyay and Nishant Jha   As the conflict over Huawei persists, allegations and counter-allegations from all sides are flying in different directions. On 1 December 2018, Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver, Canada at the request...

Ramesh Jaura   “African countries, especially those in West Africa, are simply not doing enough” to “ensure that no one is left behind”, declares a new report, unveiling shocking figures that underline extreme inequality and poverty rampant in the region....

Saika Datta   India’s union budget for fiscal 2019-2020 started with a controversy over “missing numbers” that came from no less than a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council. Writing in the newspaper Business Standard, Rathin Roy pointed out that...

 Josh Rogin For roughly two years, the United States has been warning the Turkish government against receiving a huge Russian missile defense system. Washington has made clear that, were that to happen, it would have no choice but to impose sanctions that could further...