As narratives about the root causes of the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations take shape, U.S. leaders have a major decision…
Year: 2014
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 –…
Wall Street Journal Smart power is an important concept — and one the U.S. should most want to exercise right…
The United Nations’ senior official responsible for migrants, in a shot across Qatar’s bow as officials predict imminent far-reaching labour…
In the remote, well-to-do Cairo suburb of Fifth Settlement, the headquarters of former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s presidential campaign…
The current situation in which everything hateful to the Jews they do unto others cannot continue. That line in the…
Earlier today, Saudi Arabia announced that controversial prince Bandar bin Sultan had resigned as intelligence chief. According to the official…
Should the citizens of Lebanon applaud a U.S.-Iran agreement even if it consolidates Iran’s Hezbollah proxies who have almost taken…
Samir Geagea has declared his candidacy for the Lebanese presidential election, launching a thousand speculations. The Lebanese Forces leader has…
religious-diversity-1Several years ago, the Pew Research Center produced estimates of the religious makeup of more than 200 countries and territories,…
The recently published OECD test results once again expose the nakedness of the Israeli education system. The latest tests included…
The time has come to speak to the point. The Jews and the Arabs aren’t going anywhere. You don’t have…
Ever since the two peoples, the Jews and the Palestinians, met in conflict on this small land they have been…
Saudi Arabia is a curious mixture of precedence and edict. In recent years, King Abdullah has tried to further systematize…
Los Angeles Times President Obama will visit Saudi Arabia this week. Based on what I hear from key Saudis, he…
On March 6, Bahrain’s foreign minister told the UN Human Rights Council that the ongoing violence in his country “is…
Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford discussed his perspective on the events taking place in Syria and the prospects…
I have been waiting 20 minutes before Prince Turki al-Faisal arrives, looking flustered. “My driver had to drop me off…
The time has come to speak to the point. The Jews and the Arabs aren’t going anywhere. You don’t have…
Sources in Europe revealed that rumors concerning a presumed anti islamic campaign in Angola, including demolition of mosques, originated in…
Sources in Paris speculated that U.S. Intelligence must be jittery, or even paranoid with the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlanes…
By Adam Goldman A key figure in the radicalization of members of the Hamburg cell at the center of the…
“This” in the title line refers to the continuous fall into the public domain of increasingly embarrassing tape recordings undeniably…
The recent denigration of President Michel Sleiman by Ibrahim Amin, the editor of Al-Akhbar, is part of Hezbollah’s larger fight…
The fighting in Syria is frequently described as either a stalemate or a war of attrition — there are few…
It was only a matter of time before Al Saadi Al Qaddafi, the notorious, soccer-obsessed third son of toppled Libyan…
The Ukraine situation will affect Washington’s Middle Eastern priorities, but not to such a degree that it will stymie a…
Earlier today, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates recalled their ambassadors from Qatar, choosing a high-visibility tactic to…
Turkey has become rather different compared to the apolitical post-1980s country where people were scared to manifest their political standing.…
Cairo’s possible purchase of advanced weapons systems from Russia could become another irritant in U.S.-Egyptian relations. As the crisis in…
Zbigniew Brzezinski was national security adviser from 1977 to 1981. Regarding the Russian aggression against Ukraine, much depends on what…
The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition By Ariel Zirulnick, Staff writer / March 2, 2014 MEDFORD, MASS. In his…
If I were into conspiracy theories I would hasten to blame Bill Gates, Microsoft and the Windows operating system for…
The February 24 resignation of Egypt’s cabinet has fed expectations that Field Marshal Abdul Fatah al-Sisi will soon announce his…
What do you mean by “Magnificent Delusions?” It is a book about the U. S. -Pakistan relationship, which many think…
On February 21, 2014, Nima Gerami and Mehdi Khalaji addressed a Policy Forum marking the publication of the new Washington…
The following are Ambassador Fernandez’s prepared remarks, delivered as part of The Washington Institute’s Stein Counterterrorism Lecture Series; watch video…
By DAVID E. SANGERFEB WASHINGTON — Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody, late in the spring of…
The government is about to collapse in southern Cyprus. In the north, Foreign Minister Özdil Nami is unhappy – if…
The Post’s View By Editorial Board, Sunday, February 23, NOW THAT the “Geneva 2” conference on Syria has collapsed, Secretary…
Everything Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does and says conforms to the ideology of the family crucible that shaped his political…
Yesterday, two Saudi police officers were killed and two injured in a gunfight while trying to detain “armed troublemakers” in…
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei seems to be paving the way for potential stagnation in the nuclear negotiations. On February…
On February 8, Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), a Salafist armed group in Baluchistan, Iran, announced that it had taken…