Foreign policy based on fantasy
Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor “One is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms…
Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor “One is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms…
By Ronny Linder-Ganz | Oct. 26, 2013 “Do something, write, tell the world,” cries out…
Everyone will no doubt agree that Israel is not a normal country. Perhaps it is…
Saudi Arabia’s abrupt October 17 decision to refuse a seat on the UN Security Council…
BY MAX FISHER Ever since the United States and Saudi Arabia fell into something of…
By Fred Hiatt, editor of The Post’s editorial page The issue is whether promoting democracy…
Middle East Report N°14617 Oct 2013 Read full report (pdf) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Often derided for…
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How does the name sound? Pretty much like Saint Paul’s Mosque in London, or the…
The Turkish-Israeli relationship became so poisonous early last year that the Turkish government of Prime…
With Sunni-Shiite conflict consuming Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, headlines from the Middle East these…
MAURO PIANTA AND MARTA PETROSILLO ROME “The worst discrimination is not being considered on equal…
“What’s going to happen in Syria?” I asked Fawaz, an exiled Syrian musician whom I…
Reading the bulletins of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, it seems that about the only…
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in…
METransparent Exclusive What happened in Libya last Thursay? Who kidnapped Libya’s prime minister, Mr. Ali…
In a certain sense, the Obama administration’s decision to withhold much of the $1.3 billion…
By Christoph Reuter Syrian President Assad’s regime is waging a PR campaign to spread stories…
President Barack Obama’s preferred end-state for the Syrian crisis begins with the creation of a…
I met Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap—who died on Friday—twice. The first time was in the…
In an Oct. 3 op-ed in the New York Times, Vali Nasr asserts that Iran…
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — United States forces captured a leader of Al Qaeda…
By William Booth ST. CATHERINE’S MONASTERY, Egypt — Thousands of years of tradition say the…
Iran consistently accuses the United States and its allies in the Middle East of provoking…
Today, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is down, if not completely out. After the Egyptian…
The Vatican Bank has closed the bank accounts of four foreign embassies accredited to the…
By JULIE BOSMAN Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels made him one of the…
Foreign Policy In relations between states, symbols can be a sign of change — but…
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News The land of the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery will be…