CIA and Mossad killed senior Hezbollah figure in car bombing
By Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima On Feb. 12, 2008, Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s international operations…
Monthly Archives: January, 2015
Princely Personalities Sidelined in Saudi Arabia
Just two days after President Obama’s visit to Riyadh, King Salman has sacked several of…
Aligning with Rouhani is not the Answer
The Iranian nuclear negotiations have proven divisive enough within the United States and among the…
Riyadh Rendezvous: Obama to Meet with New Saudi King
Tomorrow, January 27, President Obama will cut short his visit to India in order to…
America’s Syria plan is bound to fail
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned Syria only…
5 facts about the Muslim population in Europe
by CONRAD HACKETT Recent violence in France and protest marches in Germany have drawn renewed…
Time to Take it to Iran
The nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran appear stalemated. Meanwhile Iran is on…
Where Does MOSSAD Not Have Influence in Iran?
It would be very strange if the discovery of MOSSAD’s penetration into the highest leadership…
Israel vs. Hezbollah, Spy vs. Spy
Sunday, Israeli airstrikes targeted a convoy of Hezbollah vehicles, killing several senior operatives, reportedly including…
Why the UAE’s star is rising
Major American media organizations have been running stories lately that feature one of Washington’s Persian…
Israel’s shameless hijacking of French Jews
If there is anything pure, unadulterated, transcendent in Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s his vulgarity. The corpses…
Jihad Mughniyah planned attacks against Israel in the Golan Heights
Western intelligence sources say son of master terrorist Imad Mughniyah was planning attacks meant to…
Toufic Gaspard interview: liberalism is the only remaining option for Arab societies
Shaffaf Interview with Toufic Gaspard Shaffaf- From a Beirut perspective, how did the Daesh disaster…
The Paris Attacks: Three Generations of Jihadists
The terrorist network responsible for killing seventeen people in Paris last week is a troubling…
Not Your Father’s Hezbollah
BEIRUT — Around a kitchen table in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a midlevel Hezbollah commander moved…
Explaining the Turkish Military’s Opposition to Combating ISIS
In all the discussions about Turkey not being particularly supportive to the coalition fighting the…
Al-Qa’ida and the Shiites
In the 1998 Embassy Bombings Court Case in the U.S. one of the key witnesses…
Antithesis of radical Islam is not moderate Islam, it is secularism
For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a…
A Moment of Decision on Egypt
Although Egypt is an important strategic asset for the United States — granting priority Suez…
Shlomo Bolts: A Syrian Jew Opposed to a Political Solution With Assad
In America and worldwide, civil and political organizations have emerged to support the Syrian Revolution…
It is always the Muslim Brotherhood
The origins of the 7 January attack in Paris against Charlie Hebdo goes back first…
Assad’s Secret: Evidence Points to Syrian Push for Nuclear Weapons
By Erich Follath For years, it was thought that Israel had destroyed Syria’s nuclear weapons…
The 2013 al-Qa’ida hit list and the Paris terrorist attack
There are still some mysteries surrounding the jihadi attack on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo…
African affairs in troubled waters
A controversial French writer is putting the final touches on a book about the Persian…
What’s missing is an Israeli party
Political life in Israel is based on ethnic and religious identities. There are Jewish parties…
In Iraq’s war against extremists, a quiet sectarian purge
By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, The Associated Press RAWASHID, Iraq — Sunni residents of…
Kataib al-Imam Ali: Portrait of an Iraqi Shiite Militant Group Fighting ISIS
Over fifty Shiite militia organizations in Syria and Iraq currently claim to be training and…
Saudi King in Hospital: Succession Crisis Looms
The official announcement that King Abdullah had been taken into a Riyadh hospital “to undergo…