When Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani visits the White House on February 24, President Obama will have to contend with…
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— AFP/File ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long enjoyed close relations, but Islamabad’s new-found resolve for fighting the root…
Iran’s Fars News Agency – affiliated with the country’s security circles – quoted a Russian media outlet and wrote that…
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It’s a quiet and sombre school day. The sun is shining bright but I still remember a distinct form of…
Bashar Assad’s smugness in a series of recent interviews may be justified. As the Syrian president looks around him, he…
The CIA doesn’t assassinate often anymore, so when it does the agency picks its targets carefully. The story uncovered last…
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By Adam Goldman and Ellen Nakashima On Feb. 12, 2008, Imad Mughniyah, Hezbollah’s international operations chief, walked on a quiet…
Just two days after President Obama’s visit to Riyadh, King Salman has sacked several of the princes who met with…
The Iranian nuclear negotiations have proven divisive enough within the United States and among the United States and its allies.…
Tomorrow, January 27, President Obama will cut short his visit to India in order to meet with the new Saudi…
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned Syria only twice. On both occasions he…
by CONRAD HACKETT Recent violence in France and protest marches in Germany have drawn renewed attention to Europe’s Muslim population.…
The nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran appear stalemated. Meanwhile Iran is on the march in the Middle…
It would be very strange if the discovery of MOSSAD’s penetration into the highest leadership of Lebanese Hezbollah a few…
Sunday, Israeli airstrikes targeted a convoy of Hezbollah vehicles, killing several senior operatives, reportedly including Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of…
Major American media organizations have been running stories lately that feature one of Washington’s Persian Gulf allies, the United Arab…
If there is anything pure, unadulterated, transcendent in Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s his vulgarity. The corpses were still warm last week…
Western intelligence sources say son of master terrorist Imad Mughniyah was planning attacks meant to ‘kill soldiers, hit Israeli communities…
Shaffaf Interview with Toufic Gaspard Shaffaf- From a Beirut perspective, how did the Daesh disaster come about? Who is to…
The terrorist network responsible for killing seventeen people in Paris last week is a troubling combination of three generations of…
BEIRUT — Around a kitchen table in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a midlevel Hezbollah commander moved empty coffee cups and a…
In all the discussions about Turkey not being particularly supportive to the coalition fighting the “Islamic State”/ISIS, little has been…
In the 1998 Embassy Bombings Court Case in the U.S. one of the key witnesses was the former al-Qa’ida member…
For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way. Christian Europe always…
Although Egypt is an important strategic asset for the United States — granting priority Suez Canal access to American warships…
In America and worldwide, civil and political organizations have emerged to support the Syrian Revolution and the people’s calls for…
The origins of the 7 January attack in Paris against Charlie Hebdo goes back first to al-Qa’ida in the Arabian…
By Erich Follath For years, it was thought that Israel had destroyed Syria’s nuclear weapons capability with its 2007 raid…
There are still some mysteries surrounding the jihadi attack on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January…
A controversial French writer is putting the final touches on a book about the Persian Gulf.. with the help of…
Political life in Israel is based on ethnic and religious identities. There are Jewish parties that occasionally have a token…
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Over fifty Shiite militia organizations in Syria and Iraq currently claim to be training and fighting against the “Islamic State”/ISIS.…
The official announcement that King Abdullah had been taken into a Riyadh hospital “to undergo some medical checkups” suggests serious…