By trying to preserve a corrupt political order, the pro-Iranian party is now identified with it. Since the start…
Author: Michael Young
Just by getting rid of a dictator, Sudan’s protestors (as well as Algeria’s) have ended the new, counterrevolutionary normal in…
The decision of President Donald Trump to pull U.S. forces out of Syria has, predictably, shocked the foreign policy community…
New US legislation relating to the Iran-backed group casts a shadow over the future of bilateral relations News that…
A recent indictment prompts questions about the real value of the investigation and trial of Rafik al-Hariri’s assassins. On September…
In an interview, Yassin al-Haj Saleh describes how Syrians have been denied any meaning for their suffering. Yassin al-Haj Saleh…
All the signs are that Lebanon, come May, will postpone parliamentary elections for a third time. Every time an election…
In his inaugural speech, president Donald Trump showed that one thing that would not preoccupy him while in office was…
The regime in Iran must have mixed feelings about Russia. Though Moscow was essential in helping save the regime of…
President Barack Obama’s support for a United Nations Security Council resolution opposing the construction of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory…
With the fall of eastern Aleppo to the forces backing Bashar Al Assad now looking imminent, what happens next…
Among the victims of the war in Syria during the past five years has been the moral compass of western…
Lebanon’s recent municipal elections had more of a national dimension to them than usual. Because parliamentary elections have been postponed…
Ten years ago this week, our friend and colleague Samir Kassir was murdered outside his home, likely at the instigation…
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria’s…