There is zero chance he gets acquitted. Forget the protests. Forget the procedural twists and turns. That’s all you need…
Year: 2013
CUMALİ ÖNAL, İSTANBUL A recent conference held in Turkey dealt with a topic which, though it has been widely discussed…
LAMİYA ADİLGIZI, İSTANBUL The Islamization of Armenians in Turkey is the product of a long-term and systematic political strategy of…
Gerard De Villier, the spy novelist who was known as France’s answer to James Bond, died on Thursday in Paris.…
Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor “One is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic…
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…
An official Iranian protest to the world’s nuclear watchdog could be an attempt to undermine its role in verifying the…
By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — As the nation’s spy agencies assess the fallout from disclosures about…
When listening to many Syrian Christians, or their Lebanese brethren, you would think that only Christians are suffering from the…
By Robert Kaiser This is an odd, engaging book. It involves one native Englishman (the author) and two immigrants, a…
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) – In the photograph the two robed men stand shoulder-to-shoulder, one tall and erect, the…
President Rouhani’s track record shows that he is deeply committed to preserving the regime’s longstanding interests, and frequently at odds…
The awful terrorist attack in Kenya, against innocent civilians who just happened to be in Westgate shopping center in Nairobi,…
If the group’s standing in Lebanon continues to implode, the country might cease to be the comfortable home for Hezbollah…
BY DEXTER FILKINS Last February, some of Iran’s most influential leaders gathered at the Amir al-Momenin Mosque, in northeast Tehran,…
The United States and its European allies appear unable or unwilling to intervene effectively and forcefully in Syria. Therefore it…
The moment of truth is coming. All the optics from Tehran — even from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — indicate…
With help from Washington and the GCC, Yemen’s political transition has been successful thus far, though deeper reform efforts will…
New Statesman Hezbollah retaliation could include firing rockets at Israel or executing terrorist attacks on Western and Israeli interests via…
United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic Report on the…
By Farnaz Fassihi, Jay Solomon And Sam Dagher At a base near Tehran, Iranian forces are training Shiite militiamen from…
The Russian-sponsored agreement to put Syria’s chemical weapons under international supervision may well have headed off an impending American strike…
Middle Eastern investors have adopted a new strategy of buying low and selling high with a series of acquisitions of…