Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor “One is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic…
Month: October 2013
By Ronny Linder-Ganz | Oct. 26, 2013 “Do something, write, tell the world,” cries out Dr. Arieh Avidan, deputy director…
Everyone will no doubt agree that Israel is not a normal country. Perhaps it is also one of the funniest…
Saudi Arabia’s abrupt October 17 decision to refuse a seat on the UN Security Council — an unprecedented occurrence –…
BY MAX FISHER Ever since the United States and Saudi Arabia fell into something of an alliance in the late…
By Fred Hiatt, editor of The Post’s editorial page The issue is whether promoting democracy and human rights should be…
Middle East Report N°14617 Oct 2013 Read full report (pdf) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Often derided for its infighting or dismissed as…
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How does the name sound? Pretty much like Saint Paul’s Mosque in London, or the San Marco Mosque in Venice?…
The Turkish-Israeli relationship became so poisonous early last year that the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is…
With Sunni-Shiite conflict consuming Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, headlines from the Middle East these days are dominated by news…
MAURO PIANTA AND MARTA PETROSILLO ROME “The worst discrimination is not being considered on equal terms as other citizens”. Speaking…
“What’s going to happen in Syria?” I asked Fawaz, an exiled Syrian musician whom I met in Paris recently. “The…
Reading the bulletins of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, it seems that about the only thing the institution has not…
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA’s Clandestine Service is…
METransparent Exclusive What happened in Libya last Thursay? Who kidnapped Libya’s prime minister, Mr. Ali Zeidan, and why? Exclusive sources…
In a certain sense, the Obama administration’s decision to withhold much of the $1.3 billion in annual aid given to…
By Christoph Reuter Syrian President Assad’s regime is waging a PR campaign to spread stories that discredit its rivals and…
President Barack Obama’s preferred end-state for the Syrian crisis begins with the creation of a transitional governing body peopled on…
I met Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap—who died on Friday—twice. The first time was in the Vietnamese military hospital where I…
In an Oct. 3 op-ed in the New York Times, Vali Nasr asserts that Iran is approaching the nuclear negotiations…
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — United States forces captured a leader of Al Qaeda indicted in the 1998 bombings…
By William Booth ST. CATHERINE’S MONASTERY, Egypt — Thousands of years of tradition say the monastery built here marks the…
Iran consistently accuses the United States and its allies in the Middle East of provoking tension between Shiite and Sunni…
Today, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is down, if not completely out. After the Egyptian military deposed President Mohamed Morsi,…
The Vatican Bank has closed the bank accounts of four foreign embassies accredited to the Holy See, because of suspiciously…
By JULIE BOSMAN Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels made him one of the world’s best-selling and best-known authors,…
Foreign Policy In relations between states, symbols can be a sign of change — but they can sometimes create false…
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News The land of the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery will be returned to the Syriac community…