Concern about the political direction of the Middle East has long ago replaced the optimism that briefly followed the 2010-11…
Year: 2015
The outcome has dealt a blow to the AKP’s longstanding dominance and Erdogan’s goal of implementing a presidential system, with…
It was no joke for millions of Turks who queued in front of ballot boxes at early hours of the…
The car is 2013 Lexus Lx 570 it has low Millage 42,339, Full Options Gulf specification, good condition, No accident…
http://edge.media.cfr.org/content/publications/media/meetings/2015/20150604Saudi_Arabia_and_Israel.mp4 By DAVID E. SANGERJUNE WASHINGTON — A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi Arabia and Israel was on…
By DAVID E. SANGERJUNE WASHINGTON — A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi Arabia and Israel was on display…
The technology can stop the missile, but politics are getting in the way. By Marcus Weisgerber If Iran launches a…
By Marcus Weisgerber If Iran launches a ballistic missile at the Middle East, nuclear or not, Arab states would have…
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Analysts have wondered why Syria’s Druze have not joined the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad, despite the…
Analysts have wondered why Syria’s Druze have not joined the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad, despite the…
Why Muslims Are Rising Fastest and the Unaffiliated Are Shrinking as a Share of the World’s Population The religious profile…
Since regaining Tikrit, the Iraqi government has seemingly listened to Washington’s advice about delaying an undermanned campaign to retake Mosul,…
The Khobar Towers bombing on June 25, 1996 This week, Saudi Arabia just sanctioned two senior Hezbollah members, Khalil Harb…
Shaffaf reproduces the following article of The Wall Street Journal as a tribute to the Arab Jews- still present in…
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and Space imagery taken on 27…
When Ramadi fell to the Islamic State (also called ISIS) on May 17, many believed that it was a turning…
This week, Saudi Arabia just sanctioned two senior Hezbollah members, Khalil Harb and Muhammad Qabalan, for “terrorist actions.” Both operatives…
The Middle East state system is under relentless pressure, and preserving it will require a long-term vision for shoring up…
The Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa is pleased to invite you to the Inauguration of the Chouwan Ecotourism…
Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor at Science Po (Paris), was asked by the Journal du Dimanche to comment the fall…
Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor at Science Po (Paris), was asked by the Journal du Dimanche to comment the fall…
“Dark Clouds Over Turkey” (full text) Monday 25 May 2015 Hopefully, the Turks shall soon vote their president out…
Hopefully, the Turks shall soon vote their president out of his wretched obsession to transform Turkey from a secular (imperfect-democratic)…
From outside the pavilion looks like the white sails of a lost sailing ship: it was built by Italo Rotaas…
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one…
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one…
The group will no doubt continue helping the Assad regime hang on, but the war’s heavy attrition, Syria’s demographic realities,…
This weekend, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech about the Lebanese Shiite militia’s impending victory in the Syrian border…
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it published from the Edward Snowden…
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it published from the Edward Snowden…
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle East Transparent the following explanation…
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on 12 May 2015.…
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria’s…
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria’s…
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on 12 May 2015.…
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — More than a month of relentless airstrikes by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia has inflicted…
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle East Transparent the following explanation…
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing of the map of the…
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing of the map of…
They reject his attempts to reassure them over the Iran nuclear deal. The promise of a successful nuclear deal with…
The White House’s bottom line for Camp David is to limit public condemnation of the emerging deal with Iran, but…
With a litany of unproved claims, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has revived discussion about the circumstances in which al…
Another commercial vessel has been fired on by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf, just weeks after Iranian naval forces…
The presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, may be on a mountaintop, but the May 14 talks there between President…
The promise of a successful nuclear deal with Iran is that it will stop nuclear proliferation, moderate Tehran’s behavior, make…
President Barack Obama’s meeting with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David next week is likely to be…
Ali Mamlouk was accused of holding secret talks with countries backing rebel groups By Ruth Sherlock, and Carol Malouf in…
The main body of the following article was published by Middle East Transparent on April 2007. The migration of thousands…
The high-level summit next week with leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,…