Wall Street Journal The news last week about a corruption scandal in Turkey seems on the surface a traditional case…
Year: 2013
Editor’s note: Mohamad Chatah, a former Lebanese finance minister, wrote the following open letter last week to Iranian President Hasan…
A December 25 accord signed between Syria and Russia allows for exploration and drilling in an area off the Syrian…
A commentary by Bao Tong The 20th century saw three great political myths. The myths of Hitler and Stalin have…
TODAY’S ZAMAN, ANKARA In the midst of a shocking graft probe that caused two Cabinet ministers from the ruling Justice…
On December 14-15, a conference was held in Tunis in remembrance of the 5,000 Jews subjected to forced labor during…
By Owen Matthews / The talks in Geneva to broker a deal with Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program…
It has become commonplace to say that “there is no military solution” to the conflict in Syria. That claim, invoked…
GIANNI VALENTE ROME Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected Patriarch of Alexandria’s Coptic Catholics last January. Since then there have been…
The Post’s View By Editorial Board FROM THE beginning of the Syria crisis almost three years ago, the Obama administration…
“The enemy’s army, as we were taught in school, is the army that is now taking care of us,” the…
Egypt’s new draft constitution reflects the coalition of leftist political parties and entrenched state actors that helped oust President Muhammad…
By STEVEN ERLANGER MONACO — An influential Saudi prince blasted the Obama administration on Sunday for what he called indecision…
By Editorial Board Syria falls into an abyss IT’S BEEN seven weeks since Secretary of State John F. Kerry charged…
Saturday evening, while walking in Sassine Square, I came upon a nauseating scene. Two young men had gotten out of…
By Markus Grill Hans Küng, 85, is one of the world’s most famous theologians. In 1960, the Swiss native was…
Weekly Standard Back in 2006, during a particularly low point in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the congressionally mandated Iraq…
CNN Global Public Square The November 19 double suicide bombings of the Iranian embassy in Beirut may have looked shocking…
Hussein Morsi looks almost exactly like his infamous brother, albeit 15 years younger with a slightly darker complexion. I’m not…
Development and Small Projects Support Office (LDSPS) regarding the kidnapping of activists Razan Zeitouneh, Samira Khalil, Wael Hamada and Nazim…
By Rachel Sanderson in Milan The sweeping clampdown, the first in the Vatican bank’s 71-year history, follows months of increased…
Diplomats from Iran and the P5+1 meet next week in Vienna to discuss implementation of the first-step nuclear agreement reached…
Nearly five months after the uprising-cum-coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsy, Egypt is mostly calm. That might seem surprising, especially…
A few weeks ago the Facebook page “The Syrian revolution against Bashar El Assad 2011” published a photo with the…
في لقاء خاص ليكيتي ميديا مع الاستاذ المحامي انور البني زميل المهنة والمقرب من الاستاذ المحامي “خليل معتوق ” الذي…
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer and the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Payam Akhavan is a founder…
Despite all the fanfare that greeted its arrival Saturday night, the “first step” deal between world powers and Iran is…
The Atlantic So, how are the Saudis reacting? That’s the question on many people’s lips now that world powers have…
In late 2011, Turkey, hoping to help oust the Assad regime in Syria, began to arm members of the Syrian…
One’s evaluation of the nuclear deal depends on how one understands the broader context of US-Iranian relations. There are potential…
The blockbuster nuclear deal reached early Sunday morning in Geneva between Iran and the U.S.-led coalition (see http://washin.st/192SgPM) is both…
President Obama is hailing a weekend accord that he says has “halted the progress of the Iranian nuclear program,” and…
lukmanlubowa@yahoo.co.uk I am ugandan i want a woman for marriage, am 46 and i want a woman between 35 to…
By MATTHEW KAMINSKI ‘The U.S. has to have a foreign policy. Well-defined, well-structured. You don’t have it right now, unfortunately.…
A president desperate to change the subject and a secretary of state desperate to make a name for himself are…
On November 15, armed groups from Misratah, Libya, fired on protestors who had taken to the streets of Tripoli to…
By Asa Fitch When liquidators closed the books on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International case in May, a…
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear program, released November 14, has generated a profusion of optimistic…
America and Israel are in uncharted waters. Just eight months since President Barack Obama visited Israel on the first foreign…
(Saudi judo player Widan Skahrkhani at the London Olympics) * A vast majority of Saudis favor women having the right…
There were no economic or cultural bonds among his coalition. He was all things to all people. Charisma ruled. *…
Featuring Simon Henderson The first round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva broke down earlier this month after the P5+1…
As Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers arrived in Geneva this past weekend, expectations rose that a limited…
BBC Newsnight, a British equivalent of ABC’s 20/20, ran a story on Nov. 6 saying intelligence reports judged that Pakistan…
By JOHN VINOCUR Back in 2011, when the United States killed Osama bin Laden in the middle of the Pakistani…
It never started with Russian invasion of Afghanistan or the Jihad-phobia of ‘Mard-e-Momin Ziaul Haq.’ These events only help expedite…
GIANNI VALENTE VATICAN CITY The date for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Rome to meet Pope Francis has been…
With the latest controversy he created in Turkey, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan took the debate on his much-discussed authoritarianism to…
This week Sunni and Shia Muslims ushered in the Islamic New Year and the beginning of the holy month of…
In the Jewish sector many voters didn’t bother to show up at the polling places for the municipal elections. Some…