If Washington wants to shore up King Abdullah and secure Jordan, it should do everything possible to hasten the departure…
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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,…
The emirate’s transition to a new generation of younger leaders continues, with uncertain implications for Doha’s foreign policy and relations…
In mid-December 2012, President Obama in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters tried to explain US policy toward the Syrian…
Knee-deep in Syria’s civil war and surrounded by family quarrels, Qatar’s emir is looking to hand over the country to…
Not unlike Jewish fundamentalism, the Islamic Movement is one of the damaging phenomena in Arab society in Israel.The optimal solution…
The last thing King Abdullah II needs is to associate his traditionally enlightened monarchy with the practices of his repressive…
6/11/2013 Action Targets Hizballah’s Global Support Network Responsible for Fundraising and Recruiting WASHINGTON – The Department of the Treasury today…
The forthcoming elevation of Crown Prince Tamim to Qatar’s top leadership roles could spur Iran and other rivals to play…
A DEMOCRATIC APPEAL We strongly feel – as you surely do – that those who seek to lead our nation…
Today, 9 June 2013, members of INTIMAA, a group of Lebanese Shia opposed to Hezbollah policies arrived to the Iranian…
On Wednesday, Qusair fell to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Qusair is a strategic town that connects Damascus with…
Around the world, Muslims who use the internet are much more likely than other Muslims to have a favorable opinion…
Given the regime’s renewed offensive capabilities, delaying foreign military assistance any further is a recipe for more rebel defeats. ******************************…
Hezbollah’s flagrant intervention in Syria calls into question the crucial concepts of the nation-state, its sovereignty and decision making-powers over…
With the bloodshed occurring in Syria, Hezbollah decided to help the Syrian regime in the fight against the Free Syrian…
Hezbollah’s commitment to the Syrian conflict will likely change the course of the war. On May 25, Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan…
By Kevin Sullivan ISKENDERUN, Turkey — The Nissos Rodos, a 630-foot ferry, once cruised the Greek islands, moving tourists from…
Algeria is competing to be the next Arab nation to witness a popular revolt. That is assuming soccer is a…
By Matthias Gebauer Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad’s regime would soon collapse. Now,…
David J. Kramer is president of Freedom House. Can everyone please stop pretending that Russia can be a partner with…
As the regime narrows the list of approved candidates for the upcoming presidential election, Washington should criticize Tehran for limiting…
Washington Institute fellow Eric Trager sat down with Foreign Policy Association blogger Reza Akhlaghi to discuss how Egypt’s leaders view…
Owen Bowcott and Ian Black Appeal court judges agreed to the release of documents in the dispute between the Saudi…
Although opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was favored going into Pakistan’s fraught parliamentary elections on Saturday, nobody predicted that his party…
It is rarely a good idea to draw maps in a hurry. But that is what colonial cartographers did in…
by Will Fulton, Joseph Holliday, and Sam Wyer Executive Summary The Islamic Republic of Iran has conducted an extensive, expensive,…
By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON—The U.S.’s closest Arab allies are jointly pressing President Barack Obama to take the lead in bridging…
Nothing stands still. History and demography will propel us forward, whether we like it or not. Therefore, one doesn’t have…
Netanyahu and the IDF Spokesman were fast to condemn the launch of the drone from Lebanon, but chose not to…
While Iran’s government had announced earlier that it had found a way to exchange its due oil revenue to import…
I was deeply struck by the photo of the eight-year-old American child, Martin Richard, who was the third casualty of…
4/23/2013 In First Use of Section 311 Against a Non-Bank Financial Institution, Treasury Acts to Protect the U.S. Financial System…
To keep yet another Syrian frontier from spiraling downward, Washington should urge Israel and the mainstream Syrian opposition to focus…
The government doesn’t want to boost the stature of the military, it has a big Alawite community, and plenty of…
A Syria expert offers three bold steps to hasten the end of Assad’s regime. This piece is part of “Obama…
About two decades ago, at Ben-Gurion International Airport I happened to meet a Palestinian acquaintance who was serving as a…
Man who held senior job in post war Iraq tells Paul Martin of dictator’s last moments As he led Saddam…
Pro-Assad sentiment and sectarian tensions in the south have made Ankara think twice about intervention and could bring the fighting…
Washington should tell Morsi that politicized prosecutions and other autocratic moves are increasing the risk of wider violence. Egypt’s prosecution…
Israel used spying equipment it planted off the Syrian coast to monitor Russian naval movements in the Mediterranean, The Sunday…
By Christian Stöcker and Judith Horchert Just how big is the Internet? An anonymous hacker claims to have answered the…
As Syria heads toward a meltdown spilling over its borders — with loss of control over strategic weapons, accelerated refugee…
David Schenker Wall Street Journal Perhaps Washington’s best Arab ally, the monarch increasingly lacks money and political stability. When President…
Since the days of the Monroe Doctrine, American foreign policy has rested on a global system of explicit or implicit…
The Obama administration’s fear of blowback in Syria — weapons falling into the hands of jihadists and other bad guys…
A sign carried by residents of a town in northern Syria during a demonstration against the Assad regime read: “The…
by Martin Chulov Discovery It is already one of the defining images of the Syrian civil war: a line of…
If Turkey can avoid the authoritarianism of single-party dominance or the chaos of coalition governments, it will have a chance…