Here is a scenario: A devout Evangelical Christian is elected president of the United States. Fundamental to his ideology is…
Month: October 2010
A masterful commentary of the Instrumentum Laboris made public by Benedict XVI in Cyprus. The urgent issues for Christians in…
By Yassin Musharbash Former al-Qaida military chief Saif al-Adel spent the last nine years under house arrest in Iran. He…
DAMASCUS, Syria — Earlier this month, a graphic video of teachers beating their young students appeared on Facebook. Although Facebook…
ForeignPolicy.com For a generation, Prince Bandar bin Sultan was Riyadh’s man in Washington. As the Saudi ambassador to the United…
Twelfth Semi-Annual Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council on the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559 (2004) for…
The Guardian, October 18, 2010 “Today, Iraq is to Iran as Lebanon was to Syria,” intoned an Iraqi politician during…
GVF — In a letter to the head of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the former Secretary-General of the Islamic…
Hossein Mohammadi Following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Lebanon, a group of Iranian émigré journalists and political and legal activists in…
Posted by Laura Secor When I started visiting Iran, in 2004, Mehdi Karroubi was widely viewed as the most conservative…
Beirut- Shaffaf Sources in Baabda Palace revealed that tension prevailed in the meeting between President Sleiman and his Iranian counterpart…
On October 11, 23 Chinese Communist Party elders known for their pro-reform positions, including Mao Zedong’s former secretary Li Rui…
Mr. President, You come as a guest to our country at our President’s invitation. We hope that your visit will…
The death of Major General Ahmed Raafat — the central figure in the drive to persuade Jihadist leaders to renounce…
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad’s trip to Beirut this week will likely produce a flurry of rhetorical challenges against Israel and…
Last week an amusing rumor circulated in Beirut. It went like this: The former head of the General Security Directorate,…
A former U.S. ally under Bush’s Freedom Agenda, the country is now being neglected in the name of “engagement” with…
Riyadh- Shaffaf Information from Riyadh indicate that KSA is in the process of re-evaluating its foreign policy in the light…
Posted By David Kenner All eyes in the Middle East are on Iran, but it may be Lebanon that is…
By John Shiffman / Inquirer Staff Writer From Yardley, U.S. agents crafted an intricate, high-stakes pursuit of weapons dealers. It…
Hezbollah has been spreading word that it may soon implement an apocalyptic scenario to prevent Lebanese collaboration with the Special…
By The Associated Press Syria accuses a 19-year-old detained blogger of being a spy, a Syrian official said Monday, the…
(WASHINGTON) — From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, Meir Litvak and Esther Webman’s impressively researched chronicle of…
The Syrian President Reshuffles Security, Intelligence Leaders September 28, 2010 | 2117 GMT STRATFOR received information Sept. 28 that Syrian…
Bagdad sources claim Ayatollah Kazem Haeri’s recent “fatwa” exhorting Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to vote in favor of outgoing Prime…