In September 2025, a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) announced a 55 billion US dollar deal to acquire Electronic Arts (EA), the largest leveraged buyout on record. The consortium agreed to pay 210 dollars a share, roughly 25 percent above the 168 dollars where EA traded before news of the talks […]
The fall of El-Fashir on October 26, 2025 marked a turning point in Sudan’s civil war waged since April 2023. After an eighteen-month siege, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the last major stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Darfur and immediately carried out mass killings against unarmed civilians, including the reported execution […]
With the October 2021 Iraqi Parliamentary elections recording the lowest ever voter turnout in post-2003 Iraq, there is little doubt that Iraq’s yet-to-be-announced next government already faces a legitimacy crisis. Amid the problems that Iraq faces in overcoming its domestic challenges, there is a massive driver of its cyclical political system in neighbouring Iran of […]
After nearly two decades, the current manifestation of conflict in Afghanistan may be coming to an end. The United States and representatives of the Taliban signed an agreement in February 2020 that ostensibly sets the terms for the US military departure from Afghanistan. In principle, it also creates conditions for the reconciliation negotiations between the […]
Roger Kangas, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies USA/
