Author: Sarah Akel

The moment of truth is coming. All the optics from Tehran — even from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei — indicate…

With help from Washington and the GCC, Yemen’s political transition has been successful thus far, though deeper reform efforts will…

New Statesman Hezbollah retaliation could include firing rockets at Israel or executing terrorist attacks on Western and Israeli interests via…

United Nations Mission to Investigate Allegations of the Use of Chemical Weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic Report on the…

By Farnaz Fassihi, Jay Solomon And Sam Dagher At a base near Tehran, Iranian forces are training Shiite militiamen from…

Middle Eastern investors have adopted a new strategy of buying low and selling high with a series of acquisitions of…

By ADAM ENTOUS, JULIAN E. BARNES and NOUR MALAS A secretive Syrian military unit at the center of the Assad…

One year after the murder of U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other foreign service members, Libya is fraying under…

Recent discoveries of natural gas off of Cyprus and Israel’s shores give both countries the potential to become energy exporters.…

WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin, who keeps Edward Snowden on a leash and lets members of a riotous girl band rot…

As Washington continues to deliberate its response to the Syrian regime’s August 21 chemical attacks in Damascus, the Assad regime…

The opponents of congressional authorization for military strikes against Syria are focused on one set of concerns: the belief that…

Early on in the so-called Arab Spring, Syrian President Bashar Assad declared at every opportunity that Syria was neither Tunisia…

By JULIAN E. BARNES and ADAM ENTOUS CONNECT WASHINGTON—The U.S. has intercepted an order from Iran to militants in Iraq…

By NICOLE PERLROTH, JEFF LARSON and SCOTT SHANE The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption,…

While Washington debates how the United States should respond to its intelligence reports of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of…

Following the recent chemical strikes in Damascus, some analysts began to focus on whether Iranian president Hassan Rouhani had the…

DOWNLOAD PDF The following is an excerpt from Ambassador Hof’s prepared remarks at a September 3 Washington Institute Policy Forum.…

Over the past three decades, Washington has provided Egypt with over $40 billion in military assistance, a program that today…

MOSCOW, August 31 (RIA Novosti) – Russia is postponing supplies of fighter jets and S-300 missile defense systems to Syria…

By Matthias Gebauer Germany has said in no uncertain terms that it will not participate in strike on Syria without…

The decision of President Barack Obama to seek congressional approval for US military strikes in Syria is constitutionally sound, but…

As Washington moves toward punitive action in Syria, the resultant military operation will presumably take one of two forms: either…

Click to read in PDF: The United States Government assesses with high confidence that the Syrian government carried out a…

Secretary of State John Kerry’s August 26, 2013 statement on Syria was powerful and direct. In the absence of a…

If Tehran continues its unwavering support for the Syrian regime, it could dash President Rouhani’s hopes of reducing Western pressure…

How is it that the Arab world, which in the past was a leader in many fields, hasn’t managed to…

As Washington considers military action in Syria, the temptation will be to pursue a limited punitive response to regime chemical-weapons…

If Washington and its allies decide to strike the Syrian regime following last week’s chemical attack, they should strike hard,…

There is ample justification for intervention in Syria once U.S. strategic interests are factored into the equation, regardless of the…

The regime’s cadres have held together through two years of war, and they will likely continue doing so unless Washington…

By Jared Malsin / Cairo @jmalsin Abboud el-Zomor spent 30 years in Egyptian prisons in connection with the 1981 assassination…

8/22/2013 Action Targets Hizballah’s Leadership Responsible for Operations Outside of Lebanon WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today…

New York Times Saudi Arabia has been one of the most important allies of the United States. But it has…

If it becomes reasonably clear that the Assad regime was responsible for today’s apparent chemical strikes, nothing less than direct…

U.S. backsliding on redlines regarding Syrian chemical weapons only encourages the Assad regime to make choices that increase the likelihood…

By disorganizing Egypt’s most cohesive Islamist group, the generals have turned hundreds of thousands of deeply ideological Muslim Brothers into…

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, PETER BAKER and MICHAEL R. GORDON CAIRO — For a moment, at least, American and European…

I am not the greatest fan of Richard Dawkins, the famous Oxford professor, whose passionate atheism looks to me as…

The Atlantic If Israel continues to act as Cairo’s proxy terrorist hunter, it could erode the Egyptian military’s reputation, undermine…

BY DAVID KENNER , GORDON LUBOLD In 2006, Professor Stephen Gerras hosted a Super Bowl party at his house for…

By MICHAEL R. GORDON WASHINGTON — American intelligence analysts have concluded that a recent Israeli airstrike on a warehouse in…

Instead of playing to the gallery of public opinion, Palestinian and Israeli leaders should start telling their people the truth.…

“One of two things will inevitably happen. Either we get engaged and we turn this around, or Assad is able…

Turkey’s secular system is the main factor that differentiates Turkey from Arab countries in terms of political Islam, according to…

Recent street battles, bombings, and political defections mark the beginning of the end of Hezbollah’s relative impunity in Lebanon, potentially…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he’s committed to an equitable division of the defense burden. This sharing of the burden…

If Washington wants to shore up King Abdullah and secure Jordan, it should do everything possible to hasten the departure…

Why Middle East moderates need to seize the opportunity in Egypt to craft a new political movement. The rejection by…

CAIRO — As President Mohamed Morsi huddled in his guard’s quarters during his last hours as Egypt’s first elected leader,…