By Yassin Musharbash Former al-Qaida military chief Saif al-Adel spent the last nine years under house arrest in Iran. He…
Year: 2010
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…
Shaffaf- Beirut: The official schedule of Iran’s president visit to Lebanon has not been finalized yet, with question marks still…
The rhetoric of Hizbullah representatives lately has been so extreme, so contrary to the conventions of courteous political exchange in…
Many Arab eyebrows – those of politicians and populist education officials – will no doubt be raised when they read…
The killing of Dr Imran Farooq could have extraordinary ramifications if the assassins are found to have links in Pakistan…
Walid Jumblatt has been apocalyptic in predicting what lies ahead for Lebanon. The Druze leader may be overstating things, but…
Policy Focus #106 The next war on Israel’s northern border will bear little resemblance to the 2006 confrontation between the…
Had I voted in Sunday’s referendum in Turkey, I would have struggled to decide whether to vote for or against…
Once a year, on September 14, members of the Gemayel family and supporters gather in Achrafieh to commemorate the assassination…
No one could have imagined that within five years, Lebanon’s young PM would become a slave of his father’s murderers.…
We can say of Daniel Bellemare, the prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, that he is like the proverbial…
September 6, 2010 Glyn Davies, the United States Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, said…
This week, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak brought his son Gamal to Washington to attend the kick-off of renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace…
If there were doubts that the rivalry between Syria and Hizbullah has reached new levels of complication, then consider the…
For nearly two weeks, the Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain has experienced near-daily disturbances following government arrests of opposition…
PolicyWatch 1693 is the second in a two-part series discussing U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). This…
You had to agree with the pro-Hizbullah daily Al-Akhbar when it observed in its Wednesday edition that one could only…
We have a duty to criticize, judge and even take clear positions, even when the views sound unpleasant. “Music from…
Though it has received only moderate attention in the western press, the torrential flooding of large swaths of Pakistan since…
There have been many signs of the revival of Al-Azhar, the Sunni world’s most important seat of learning, most recently…
To contribute towards the historic renovation of the Maghan Abraham Synagogue in Beirut: National Bank (ALLENBY BRANCH) 20126004 Allenby Street…
In August 2009, Scottish authorities released Abdel Basset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist responsible for the deaths of 270 passengers…
Marvel at the contempt Hizbullah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, must feel for us all, that he would expect us to…
During an August 9 visit to Syria, Ali Akbar Velayati, influential advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, stated that Iran…
Just as Jews are not the ones who will determine whether the Palestinians are a people or not, Salman Masalha…
Since the 1980s, the Shia terrorist group Hezbollah has not been given to blunt public moralizing about the need for…
BY CHARLES DUELFER In yet another sign that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is coming to an end, the last…
Compared to other countries, Israel has been blessed with many scientific inventions. If that were all there were to it,…