GCC-US Summit and the enduring partnership (Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg, Arab News)

On April 21, Riyadh hosted the second GCC-US summit. By all reasonable measures, the Riyadh summit was even a greater success than Camp David Summit last May, as it had the benefit of eleven months of extensive meetings between officials and experts on a wide range of security issues, including several ministerial meetings, and as such there was quite a bit of substance on the leaders’ agenda.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/916326

GCC moves against Hezbollah (Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg, Arab News)

For over thirty years, Hezbollah committed all kinds of terrorist mischief designed to help Iran export its brand of revolution throughout the region, sowing the seeds of instability in the process. While wrapping itself in the flag of “resistance,” the group primarily advanced the goals of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard even when those goals ran contrary to Lebanon’s interests or those of its Arab neighbors.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/896796

Syrian refugees and European chutzpah (Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg, Arab News)

Following Russia’s bombing of Aleppo, another wave of refugees has reached Turkey, raising alarms in Europe about the possibility of some of them reaching Europe later.

http://www.arabnews.com/columns/news/887926