On June 6, Kuwait will hold its seventh round of parliamentary elections in just over 10 years, as entrenched political deadlock has seen the Gulf state trapped in a cycle of seemingly endless parliamentary dissolutions and recurring snap elections.
In the weeks ahead of the upcoming presidential election in Turkey on May 14, 2023, Arab Islamists have rallied behind President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whom they highly praise for promoting conservative values in Turkey, defending Islamic issues around the world and welcoming Arab Islamist dissidents in his country.
A recent meeting in Doha, Qatar, between the Palestinian group Hamas and Afghanistan’s Taliban has served as yet another reminder of Qatar’s double game of harboring and sponsoring Islamic extremists while simultaneously pretending to be an ally of the U.S. and other Western countries.
Hamas leaders [who have relocated to Doha]. are using Qatar as a base for calling for the destruction of Israel. Yet this does not seem to bother the rulers of Qatar or its allies in the West, including the US. This is the same Qatar whose leaders