Lebanese oppsition : we accuse the President, PM and Speaker of high treason
The multi-confesstional opposition front, Likaa Saydet al-Jabal, an offshoot of the historic March 14…
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Thank you America: Treasury OFAC sanctioned Hezbollah ally, corrupt politician,Gibran Bassil
Treasury Targets Corruption in Lebanon November 6, 2020 Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of…
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Middle East Transparent is now in a phase of migration towards its new design. Readers…
Druze Mount next flashpoint in Syrian conflict: Implications for Israel
Synopsis This month’s killing of 23 Druze clan members by Jabhat Al Nusra jihadists has…
Al-Qaida ‘cut off and ripped apart by Isis’
Exclusive: Insiders say group has been drained of Middle East recruits and that US wrongfooted…
Turkey’s tortoise democratic revolution
It was no joke for millions of Turks who queued in front of ballot boxes…
Saudi Arabia and Israel Share a Common Opposition
By DAVID E. SANGERJUNE WASHINGTON — A new merging of strategic interests between Saudi Arabia…
The Middle East Has Four Minutes To Act If Iran Fires a Missile
By Marcus Weisgerber If Iran launches a ballistic missile at the Middle East, nuclear or…
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Syria’s Druze are caught in a maelstrom
Analysts have wondered why Syria’s Druze have not joined the uprising against the regime of…
Anbar First, Mosul Never?
When Ramadi fell to the Islamic State (also called ISIS) on May 17, many believed…
Why the Saudis just blacklisted two Lebanese militants
This week, Saudi Arabia just sanctioned two senior Hezbollah members, Khalil Harb and Muhammad Qabalan,…
A Policy to Defeat Both ISIL and Iran
The Middle East state system is under relentless pressure, and preserving it will require a…
Inauguration of the Chouwan Ecotourism Network on Saturday, June 20th, 2015.
The Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa is pleased to invite you to the…
Jean-Pierre Filiu: Daech never stopped progressing
Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor at Science Po (Paris), was asked by the Journal du…
Erdoğan blasts NY Times: ‘Who are you? Know your place’
Hopefully, the Turks shall soon vote their president out of his wretched obsession to transform…
Kuwait Pavillion in the Milan Expo
From outside the pavilion looks like the white sails of a lost sailing ship: it…
For Al-Baghdadi, Islam is a religion of war, a shrewd message
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an…
Hezbollah’s Victory in Qalamoun
This weekend, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech about the Lebanese Shiite militia’s impending…
Declassified and released al-Qa’ida document mentions Al-Jazeera’s Ahmed Zaidan
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it…
AQAP’s infiltration of Yemen’s Sunni tribes reduces effectiveness of precision airstrikes
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital…
Despite Saudi strikes, Yemen rebels remain dug in
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — More than a month of relentless airstrikes by a coalition led…
Why the Seymour Hersh story was declined by The New Yorker
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle…
Ethnic tensions spill onto Iranian soccer pitches
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing…
What Pakistan Knew About the Bin Laden Raid
With a litany of unproved claims, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has revived discussion about…
Iranian Aggression in the Gulf
Another commercial vessel has been fired on by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf, just…
The Saudi Snub
The presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, may be on a mountaintop, but the May…
Obama Loses the Sunni Arabs
The promise of a successful nuclear deal with Iran is that it will stop nuclear…
Get Serious About a Buffer Zone in Syria
President Barack Obama’s meeting with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David next…
Bashar al-Assad’s spy chief arrested over Syria coup plot
Ali Mamlouk was accused of holding secret talks with countries backing rebel groups By Ruth…
Assuring Uneasy Gulf Allies at Camp David: The Military Dimension
The high-level summit next week with leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states…
Islamism and the Left
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s…
Islamism and the Left
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s…
From Riyadh to Paris to Camp David
Amid a flurry of speculative news stories about what Washington can offer to placate Gulf…
Shift in Saudi Oil Leadership
On May 1, two days after making radical changes in the kingdom’s royal succession order…
The United Arab Emirates Bulks Up on American Weapons
by KEVIN KNODELL On April 20, a representative of one of America’s strongest Middle East…
The war racket in the Middle East serves the U.S.
The conduct toward Iran of the world powers, especially the United States, is not surprising:…
Assad’s hold on power looks shakier than ever as rebels advance in Syria
By Liz Sly April BEIRUT — A surge of rebel gains in Syria is overturning…
Hizbullah airstrip revealed
Nicholas Blanford, Beirut – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Lebanon’s militant Shia group, Hizbullah, has constructed…
Saudis Show Their Military Might in Yemen Conflict
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV RIYADH—Watching Saudi Arabia spend hundreds of billions of dollars on sophisticated weapons…
Obama is prepared to give Iran anything and everything for a deal
Just days after releasing the Iran framework, Secretary of State John F. Kerry reaffirmed that…
The Terror Strategist: Secret Files Reveal the Structure of Islamic State
By Christoph Reuter Aloof. Polite. Cajoling. Extremely attentive. Restrained. Dishonest. Inscrutable. Malicious. The rebels from…
Global Soccer’s Backslapping, Backstabbing Backroom Deal-making Politics
Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah Presidential elections and tournament hosting in the world of soccer appear…
Jane’s: Initial Saudi air strikes lacked intensity
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and…
Why America can’t figure out the Middle East
American policy in the Middle East provides much fodder for the lovers of conspiracy theories.…
Lebanon Continues to Muddle Through
On March 31, Lebanese prime minister Tammam Salam was in Kuwait attending a UN humanitarian…
Terrorism in One Lesson
Dr. Kamal Yazigi Those who support terrorism and try to cover up its crimes would…
The Fierce Pressures Facing Pakistan
Pakistani Shiite Muslims protesting a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Peshawar with…
Iran: All About Nukes?
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (centre L), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (centre R)…
