It is fitting that on the day before President Obama was to give his grand West Point address defending the…
Month: May 2014
As you read this piece, a 27-year-old woman named Meriam Yahya Ibrahim will be awaiting her death in Sudan. For…
INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP Middle East Report N°15327 May 2014 Read Full Report EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Lebanese Shiite armed movement Hizbollah…
BRUSSELS Sharing a public stage here Monday were Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence chief, and retired Maj. Gen.…
Stewart Bell A photo allegedly of Hezbollah commander Fawzi Ayoub, who has been killed. TORONTO — Fawzi Ayoub was a…
It’s May. It’s the month when Islamist Turks observe the tradition that explains why “conquest” is good but “occupation” is…
Eric Edelman is a distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and served as undersecretary of defense…
The Diplomat’s Justin McDonnell speaks with Ira Trivedi, novelist and author of the recent non-fiction book India in Love: Marriage…
i am 33 years old man from Nigerian but live in south africa now. I live a simple life and…
By Editorial Board RUSSIA AND China on Thursday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on the International Criminal Court…
On May 17, the Syrian regime lost Lt. Gen. Hussein Ayoub Ishaq, its top air-defense commander and one of the…
The elections are a masquerade, of course. Not only because the ostensible rivals are not real rivals, but also because…
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Jordan, the West Bank and Israel this weekend. Since becoming pope, he has expressed…
I first met Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, in the nineteen-eighties, when he was a junior member of…
New Republic Since the uprising-cum-coup that ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi last summer, Washington has encouraged the Muslim Brotherhood and…
They always win. But they are always tense. Often, they look pensive and unhappy. They are angry, always ready to…
On May 16, former Libyan army general Khalifa Haftar launched “Operation Dignity of Libya” in Benghazi, aiming to “cleanse the…
By Editorial Board, Friday, May 16, THE PRINCIPAL achievement the Obama administration might claim in an otherwise tragically failed response…
Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 powers — the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China — resume…
While rebel militias have lately suffered serious setbacks in central and northern Syria, they are now recording significant successes in…
A series of royal orders issued today in the name of King Abdullah at the stated request of his heir…
Whether one agrees with Beshara Rai’s decision to visit Israel and greet the pope, or disagrees, the Maronite patriarch appears…
هل فقدت جريدة الأخبار “الصفراء” صوابها لأن “حنين غدّار” تحدثت في واشنطن عن “حفنة من الزعران” في حديثها عن “سرايا…
As narratives about the root causes of the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations take shape, U.S. leaders have a major decision…
George Clooney’s reps have yet to make the official announcement, but all the tabloids and gossip sheets are reporting that…
In an interview with The Associated Press in his Istanbul office, Bartholomew expressed disappointment that Erdoğan had not re-opened the…
ROME There are just two weeks to go before Pope Francis’ arrival and the streets of Amman are already brimming…
The announcement of a letter of intent between the partners in Israel’s giant Tamar natural gas field and the Spanish…
Last week, ten Jordanian Islamists who were apprehended while attempting to join the jihad in Syria were sentenced by the…
In the summer of 2012, International Security (Vol. 37) published an essay by Professor Richard Pape entitled, “When Duty Calls:…
Last week, Lebanon’s parliament convened for the first round of balloting to elect a new president. While Samir Geagea –…