The Guardian, October 18, 2010 “Today, Iraq is to Iran as Lebanon was to Syria,” intoned an Iraqi politician during…
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GVF — In a letter to the head of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the former Secretary-General of the Islamic…
Hossein Mohammadi Following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s trip to Lebanon, a group of Iranian émigré journalists and political and legal activists in…
Posted by Laura Secor When I started visiting Iran, in 2004, Mehdi Karroubi was widely viewed as the most conservative…
Beirut- Shaffaf Sources in Baabda Palace revealed that tension prevailed in the meeting between President Sleiman and his Iranian counterpart…
On October 11, 23 Chinese Communist Party elders known for their pro-reform positions, including Mao Zedong’s former secretary Li Rui…
Mr. President, You come as a guest to our country at our President’s invitation. We hope that your visit will…
The death of Major General Ahmed Raafat — the central figure in the drive to persuade Jihadist leaders to renounce…
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad’s trip to Beirut this week will likely produce a flurry of rhetorical challenges against Israel and…
A former U.S. ally under Bush’s Freedom Agenda, the country is now being neglected in the name of “engagement” with…
Riyadh- Shaffaf Information from Riyadh indicate that KSA is in the process of re-evaluating its foreign policy in the light…
Posted By David Kenner All eyes in the Middle East are on Iran, but it may be Lebanon that is…
By John Shiffman / Inquirer Staff Writer From Yardley, U.S. agents crafted an intricate, high-stakes pursuit of weapons dealers. It…
By The Associated Press Syria accuses a 19-year-old detained blogger of being a spy, a Syrian official said Monday, the…
(WASHINGTON) — From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, Meir Litvak and Esther Webman’s impressively researched chronicle of…
The Syrian President Reshuffles Security, Intelligence Leaders September 28, 2010 | 2117 GMT STRATFOR received information Sept. 28 that Syrian…
Bagdad sources claim Ayatollah Kazem Haeri’s recent “fatwa” exhorting Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to vote in favor of outgoing Prime…
Shaffaf- Beirut: The official schedule of Iran’s president visit to Lebanon has not been finalized yet, with question marks still…
Many Arab eyebrows – those of politicians and populist education officials – will no doubt be raised when they read…
The killing of Dr Imran Farooq could have extraordinary ramifications if the assassins are found to have links in Pakistan…
Policy Focus #106 The next war on Israel’s northern border will bear little resemblance to the 2006 confrontation between the…
Had I voted in Sunday’s referendum in Turkey, I would have struggled to decide whether to vote for or against…
No one could have imagined that within five years, Lebanon’s young PM would become a slave of his father’s murderers.…
September 6, 2010 Glyn Davies, the United States Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, said…
This week, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak brought his son Gamal to Washington to attend the kick-off of renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace…
For nearly two weeks, the Persian Gulf island state of Bahrain has experienced near-daily disturbances following government arrests of opposition…
PolicyWatch 1693 is the second in a two-part series discussing U.S. military assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). This…
We have a duty to criticize, judge and even take clear positions, even when the views sound unpleasant. “Music from…
Though it has received only moderate attention in the western press, the torrential flooding of large swaths of Pakistan since…
There have been many signs of the revival of Al-Azhar, the Sunni world’s most important seat of learning, most recently…
To contribute towards the historic renovation of the Maghan Abraham Synagogue in Beirut: National Bank (ALLENBY BRANCH) 20126004 Allenby Street…
In August 2009, Scottish authorities released Abdel Basset al-Megrahi — the Libyan terrorist responsible for the deaths of 270 passengers…
During an August 9 visit to Syria, Ali Akbar Velayati, influential advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, stated that Iran…
Just as Jews are not the ones who will determine whether the Palestinians are a people or not, Salman Masalha…
Since the 1980s, the Shia terrorist group Hezbollah has not been given to blunt public moralizing about the need for…
BY CHARLES DUELFER In yet another sign that the U.S. occupation of Iraq is coming to an end, the last…
Compared to other countries, Israel has been blessed with many scientific inventions. If that were all there were to it,…
GVF — Just days before the national day for journalists, Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard met with…
Yesterday, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) soldiers opened fire on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit removing a tree near the…
By Ulrike Putz in southern Lebanon Did Israeli soldiers really just want to move a tree? Who shot first and…
The death of Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah brought on a veritable riptide of praise for the departed cleric from all…
Dietl, who now lives in a tranquil village near Munich, spent 11 years as an agent for the West German…
The surprising and speedy crash of General Stanley McCrystal has been seen in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the wider region as…
July 16, 2010 (New York) – President Bashar al-Asad has not delivered on his promises to increase public freedoms and…
“What we see is a military government, not the rule of the Shiite jurist.” –Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri’s 2009 open…
By Erich Follath and Dieter Bednarz In a SPIEGEL interview, Egyptian Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mohamed ElBaradei, 68, discusses the…
The Palestinian side, which has suffered for decades from the Israeli occupation, can demonstrate moral superiority over the occupier by…
For Washington, the death this week of Lebanon’s most prominent and respected Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah,…
On a hilltop overlooking Israel’s former occupation zone in south Lebanon, Hezbollah has built what the international press has dubbed…
Amend Penal Provisions That Criminalize Defamation and Libel (Beirut, July 8, 2010) – The Lebanese government should immediately drop criminal…