Author: Sarah Akel

GVF — The Coordinating Council of the Green Path of Hope, the Green Movement’s highest decision making body, has issued…

MEtransparent Exclusive Whoever enters Beirut’s “Dahieh” during the day cannot but notice Hezbollah’s discreet security presence. By nightime, the discreet…

Although the Syrian army has shown signs of fraying for some time, the potential for more serious fissures is beginning…

On Tuesday, as Syrian shells rained down on the besieged city of Hama, the White House took the opportunity to…

By Ulrike Putz in Jerusalem One atomic researcher after the other has died in a series of recent murders in…

MEtransparent exclusive Notwithstanding Hizbullah’s claims that “the blast that happened in an apartment in Dahieh’s Rouwais neighborhood, last friday, was…

MEtransparent Exclusive Credible Libyan oppositon sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told MEtransparent that it is now certain that…

Martin Chulov reports on the elusive Iranian with so much Iraqi influence that Baghdadis believe he is controlling the country…

Today’s news of the mass resignation of Turkey’s Chief of Staff, General Isik Kosaner, and the force commanders is a…

A statement by Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) Damascus 28-July-2011 Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) condemned the statement…

MEtransparent Exclusive by Pierre Akel What is going on in Benghazi, the birthplace of the Libyan revolution? Metransparent has just…

ForeignAffairs.com In June, Lebanon’s new prime minister, Najib Mikati, announced the formation of a government dominated by members and allies…

POLICYWATCH #1833 The recent indictment of senior Hizballah figure Mustafa Badreddine has the group on edge, and for good reason.…

In London next Monday a young man from The Organisation for Democracy and Freedom in Syria will be addressing MPs…

By Andrew J. Tabler Congressional Testimony July 12, 2011 On July 12, 2011, Andrew J. Tabler, the Next Generation fellow…

BY MILT BEARDEN More than two months after the raid by U.S. Navy SEALS on the Abbottabad compound of Osama…

Hurriyet Daily News Turkish-Syrian ties are unraveling. After becoming Assad’s close ally, Ankara is now worried about the Syrian conflict.…

Featuring Andrew J. Tabler An Interview by Lara Setrakian, ABC News As the Syrian government’s brutal crackdown on protesters continues,…

PolicyWatch #1829 By Michael Eisenstadt and Jeffrey White If current trends persist in Syria, the regime may be forced to…

Middle East/North Africa Report N°1086 Jul 2011 THE SYRIAN PEOPLE’S SLOW MOTION REVOLUTION Middle East/North Africa Report N°108 – 6…

by Hugh Eakin A group of Syrians newly arrived in Turkey on their way to be registered by Turkish military,…

Hurriyet Daily News July 3, 2011 Growing unrest in Syria is increasingly spilling over the border into Turkey. So far…

FINANCIAL TIMES, JUNE 28, 2011 It is time for the international community to take a stand against Syria’s use of…

Back in 2006, the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah was riding high. Having fought the Israeli army to a standstill, the…

Details emerge of a controversial ‘roadmap’ for reforms that would leave him in power despite demands for his overthrow Ian…

The air force can’t destroy Iran’s nuclear capability, a former navy commander warns, so Israel should instead rely on strategic…

Was there a foreign government behind the 9/11 attacks? A decade later, Americans still haven’t been given the whole story,…

Beirut, Lebanon IN 2009, National Geographic published an article on Syria by a special correspondent, Don Belt, who had interviewed…

The Islamic Republic of Iran benefited from the Arab Spring until it reached Syria, which has proven extremely untimely. Iran…

Statement issued by the Local Coordinating Committees One hundred days have passed since the beginning of our revolution for freedom,…

This post is designed to salute the Syrian Local Coordinating Committees (LCC) and to describe some important aspects of their…

Featuring Robert Satloff June 23, 2011 U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign Affairs Four months ago, I had the…

By Neil Sammonds, Amnesty International’s Syria researcher on the Turkish-Syrian border Little is known of the life of the thousands…

By BRET STEPHENS The Lebanese are a people who famously can’t agree about anything. So how is it that Beirut’s…

By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile…

Saudi Arabia — the spiritual center of the Islamic world, the world’s leading oil exporter, and the leader of the…

Eyewitness from Jisr Al-Shoghour: They cleaned the streets of the blood after each massacre they committed, but who can clean…

Statement issued by the local coordinating committees It has been three months since our revolution for freedom began. So far,…

This week, Lebanon served up a reminder for the United States and the partisans of the Arab uprisings: don’t count…

During his May 19 speech on the Middle East, President Obama defined America’s policy objective in Syria by asking President…

Three months have passed since the revolution in Syria sparked. Syrians are showing extraordinary bravery in their demand for freedom…

For the better part of last century, Turkish-Syrian relations were marred by a nasty territorial dispute that nearly escalated to…

Metransparent Exclusive Syrian credible sources claim billionaire Rami Makhlouf has incurred the wrath of President Bashar Assad for his recent…

Metransparent Exclusive Credible Syrian sources revealed that stirn warnings by Syrian minister of interior Ibrahim Shaar concerning the town of…

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now made the mistake that all Iranian presidents make: he has challenged the authority of the country’s…

The chairman of Egypt’s stock exchange undertook an urgent mission last month to the Persian Gulf, where he implored rich…

The Arab world is witnessing today accelerated democracy uprisings, marking a new era in the region’s history. The special significance…

By Andrew J. Tabler and Mara Karlin ForeignAffairs.com, May 25, 2011 Foreign Affairs recently convened an online panel to discuss…

Rising Literacy and a Shrinking Birth Rate A Look at the Root Causes of the Arab Revolution In a SPIEGEL…

Peter Beaumont They came for the men first, as the security forces of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad killed, beat and…