As the fighting in Syria rages, Israel has been moving cautiously and often reluctantly toward assuming a modest role in…
Month: January 2014
The following is part of a New York Times “Room for Debate” discussion on stability vs. democracy in Egypt. Read…
It is very difficult to imagine a scenario in which our involvement in Syria would have led to a better…
“I carry in me a great cemetery,” says the main character in Mustapha Khalifeh’s novel “Al-Qawqaa,” (The Shell). “At night…
I am sabbir. My age now 18 . I live in bangladesh. I want to marry a canadian girl who…
TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL Reza Zarrab, an Iranian businessman who has been arrested as part of an ongoing graft probe, is…
Since 2012, the Syrian regime has drawn from its allies to create a force of foreign combatants that have become…
Kuwait City – It was a moment to remember when Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, with a rather soft…
By Paul Richter . WASHINGTON – Key elements of a new nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers are…
The U.S. is now pursuing deals in Geneva with both Iran and Syria — two long-time brutal, dictatorial, enemy regimes.…
One need not have too powerful an imagination to answer: What would happen if Greek fighter jets bombed and killed…
Roi Kais Next week, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will convene to adjudicate in the matter of the assassination of…
President Hassan Rouhani’s relationship with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a central dynamic in the country’s politics and…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Bibi and Libi for short, have joined together for the…
Times of Israel Since the end of the July 2006 war, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah has given nearly all his…
MESUT ÇEVİKALP, İSTANBUL The early morning raids on Dec. 17 are still being discussed. More than 80 people were initially…
By ANNE BARNARD and ERIC SCHMITT BEIRUT, Lebanon — Amid the chaos of Syria’s civil war, Hezbollah has been moving…
Atlantic Nearly six months after the mass uprising-cum-coup that toppled Mohammed Morsi, the key cleavages of Egypt’s domestic political conflict…
Echoes from Antoine Courban’s agora Translated By Jill Naeem What an earthquake! The Syrian regime uses chemical weapons against…
By ADAM ENTOUS And SIOBHAN GORMAN In the early days of the Syrian rebellion, U.S. intelligence agencies made a prediction:…