This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange,…
Year: 2015
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange,…
Amid a flurry of speculative news stories about what Washington can offer to placate Gulf concerns about the putative nuclear…
President Bashar Assad’s regime is beginning to crumble despite assistance from Iran and its allies. However, such a prospect did…
On May 1, two days after making radical changes in the kingdom’s royal succession order and senior government posts, Riyadh…
by KEVIN KNODELL On April 20, a representative of one of America’s strongest Middle East allies met with Pres. Barack…
The conduct toward Iran of the world powers, especially the United States, is not surprising: Peace in the Middle East…
By Liz Sly April BEIRUT — A surge of rebel gains in Syria is overturning long-held assumptions about the durability…
Nicholas Blanford, Beirut – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Lebanon’s militant Shia group, Hizbullah, has constructed an airstrip in the northern…
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV RIYADH—Watching Saudi Arabia spend hundreds of billions of dollars on sophisticated weapons in the past decade, many…
Just days after releasing the Iran framework, Secretary of State John F. Kerry reaffirmed that the United States would insist…
By Christoph Reuter Aloof. Polite. Cajoling. Extremely attentive. Restrained. Dishonest. Inscrutable. Malicious. The rebels from northern Syria, remembering encounters with…
The remarks Tuesday by Hezbollah parliamentarian Hasan Fadlallah, deriding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon “as a scandalous breach of Lebanese…
Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah Presidential elections and tournament hosting in the world of soccer appear to be seldom won on…
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and Space imagery taken on 27…
American policy in the Middle East provides much fodder for the lovers of conspiracy theories. The actions of the United…
On March 31, Lebanese prime minister Tammam Salam was in Kuwait attending a UN humanitarian relief conference for Syria, seeking…
Dr. Kamal Yazigi Those who support terrorism and try to cover up its crimes would have us believe that terrorism…
Pakistani Shiite Muslims protesting a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Peshawar with portraits of the victims, February…
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (centre L), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (centre R) and European Union High Representative…
PF_15.04.02_Projections_promo640x320 The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size…
A rebel fighter shoulders a weapon as he moves with others towards their positions in the Selma region of the…
Police action in Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province A soccer pitch in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, home to…
The most obvious point about the Iranian government’s response to the just-released nuclear framework is that Tehran is not treating…
This is an edited version of a presentation delivered to The Washington Institute’s Policy Forum on Wednesday, April 1, 2015,…
It may have gone into overtime, but President Obama and Secretary Kerry have now announced the parameters for a comprehensive…
On March 31, senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi told state television that “there will be no agreement without sanctions…
I’m sitting in a busy Shoreditch café on a Wednesday lunchtime. It’s my first time here and I’m immediately intrigued…
Jewish men at the Congregation Ahaba ve Ahava in Cairo, late 1940s. This synagogue was disbanded when Jews left Egypt,…
Ongoing developments in the Gulf have dramatically underscored the disintegration of the “Yemen Model” championed by President Obama last year,…
On March 26, Saudi Arabia announced the beginning of Operation Decisive Storm, the pan-Arab military operation to halt the advance…
Breaking news: “War in the Middle East!” OK, fine. You’ve read this one before. But the airstrikes, troop movements, and…
So far, the great majority of the Iranian people are staying with him, beckoned by the promise of lifted sanctions…
‘The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920’ by Eugene Rogan (Allen Lane, 512 pages,…
Head of a plaster statue from the Umayyad period. Debate continues about the permissibility of representing the human form in…
Islamists often do not hide it: They love head-count democracy in lands where they make a majority; and hate it…
Although Egypt’s parliamentary elections set for March 21-22 — the first since the beginning of Abdul Fattah al-Sisi’s presidency –…
Children hold candles during a vigil in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on March 1, 2015, held in solidarity with Christians abducted…
The actions of the Joint List of Arab parties for the Knesset over the question of a surplus votes agreement…
One of the prime minister’s remarks suggests that a more fundamental dispute may be brewing between U.S. and Israeli intelligence…
In all likelihood, Khamenei’s potentially imminent successor will be even more of a hardliner, and he could renege on a…
In their controversial letter to “the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton and 46 other…
Since Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Tuesday, critics and advocates have debated everything from the metaphors and…
On 1 March about 27,000 Iraqi troops commenced their attack on Tikrit, a city 150km (93 miles) north of Baghdad…
Every field of endeavor that determines quality of life in this country, for better or for worse, is a derivative…
On February 25, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched its long-overdue “Great Prophet 9” naval exercise in the Strait…
In early February, an alliance of Iran, the Syrian regime, and Hezbollah launched a major military offensive against rebel groups…
Another session (the fifth) of intensive, informal discussions with senior, well-connected, and non-official Iranians produced no startling breakthroughs on the…
In the days of the Ottoman Empire, pederasty-like relationships were common between pre-pubescent boys and bearded older men. Though today…
On Feb. 19, a senior official with U.S. Central Command leaked details about the most widely anticipated military offensive in…