The Paris Attacks: Three Generations of Jihadists
The terrorist network responsible for killing seventeen people in Paris last week is a troubling…
Author Sarah Akel
Not Your Father’s Hezbollah
BEIRUT — Around a kitchen table in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a midlevel Hezbollah commander moved…
Explaining the Turkish Military’s Opposition to Combating ISIS
In all the discussions about Turkey not being particularly supportive to the coalition fighting the…
Al-Qa’ida and the Shiites
In the 1998 Embassy Bombings Court Case in the U.S. one of the key witnesses…
Antithesis of radical Islam is not moderate Islam, it is secularism
For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a…
A Moment of Decision on Egypt
Although Egypt is an important strategic asset for the United States — granting priority Suez…
Shlomo Bolts: A Syrian Jew Opposed to a Political Solution With Assad
In America and worldwide, civil and political organizations have emerged to support the Syrian Revolution…
It is always the Muslim Brotherhood
The origins of the 7 January attack in Paris against Charlie Hebdo goes back first…
Assad’s Secret: Evidence Points to Syrian Push for Nuclear Weapons
By Erich Follath For years, it was thought that Israel had destroyed Syria’s nuclear weapons…
The 2013 al-Qa’ida hit list and the Paris terrorist attack
There are still some mysteries surrounding the jihadi attack on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo…
African affairs in troubled waters
A controversial French writer is putting the final touches on a book about the Persian…
What’s missing is an Israeli party
Political life in Israel is based on ethnic and religious identities. There are Jewish parties…
In Iraq’s war against extremists, a quiet sectarian purge
By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra, The Associated Press RAWASHID, Iraq — Sunni residents of…
Kataib al-Imam Ali: Portrait of an Iraqi Shiite Militant Group Fighting ISIS
Over fifty Shiite militia organizations in Syria and Iraq currently claim to be training and…
Saudi King in Hospital: Succession Crisis Looms
The official announcement that King Abdullah had been taken into a Riyadh hospital “to undergo…
Sunnis are not a sect and Islamic terrorism model is Shiite not Sunni
While agreeing with many U.S. analysts’ critique of president Obama’s Middle East policy, it is…
Unrest in the Middle East taking a toll on people’s outlooks
BY KATIE SIMMONS The pervasive conflicts that have gripped the Middle East over recent years…
Meshaal on point of relocating Hamas’ political headquarters from Doha to Tehran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report Hamas’ political leader Khaled Meshaak, forced to quit his old headquarters in…
Yusuf Kanli: Daesh has been an illness of Muslim Arab societies through ages
Shaffaf Exclusive: How does the Islamic State turmoil and the dislocation of Syria and Iraq…
Turkish cannot go back to Arabic script
“We had a language which was very suitable for science; yet we slept over it…
Yemen minister dedicated award to country’s Jews
Arwa Othman has been a regular Middle East Transparent. Her articles, in arabic, are available…
Gaza’s Explosion Waiting to Happen
More than three months after the guns fell silent in and around the Gaza Strip,…
Syrian Bomb Plot Marked Deadly Turn in Civil War
By SAM DAGHER AL-QARDAHA, Syria—On the fourth day of a rebel assault on President Bashar…
Four Israeli F-15s Dodged Syrian Missile Fire to Attack Urgent Targets
On Dec. 7, the Israeli air force carried out a series of surgical air strikes…
Israeli Arabs, don’t give the Jewish State your vote
Once again, we find ourselves at the height of election fever in the Jewish “nation-state”…
The Mevlevis, a mystical sect of Anatolia
The Mevlevı ‘sema,’ or whirling ceremony. PHOTO: Fatma Demir. * During the first half of…
Syrian Air Force Operations: Strategic, Effective, and Unrestrained
Prior to the ongoing civil war, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SAAF) was never considered…
“هيئة العلماء” وإلا.. “اعتبروهم شهداء”؟
دخول “هيئة العلماء المسلمين” على خط الوساطة مع خاطفي عسكريي الجيش اللبناني ليس مستساغاً من…
Saudi Cabinet Changes Suggest Domestic Discontent
Earlier today, a series of royal orders in the name of King Abdullah announced that…
A nuclear deal with Iran will require the West to reevaluate its presumptions
Eric Edelman is a distinguished fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and…
The Church from Byzantium to the Ottomans
The Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Istanbul. The break between the Eastern…
Israel’s Druze ambassador can’t defend the nation-state law
As a diplomat and Israel’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic and as a reserve officer…
No Joking Matter: Souad Al-Shammary and Saudi Clergy
She made a joke about a beard and the medieval clergy went berserk; apparently they…
Not Alright With Syria’s Alawites
Within Washington policy circles, many officials regard Syria’s minority Alawite sect as a homogenous bubble…
ISIS: What the US Doesn’t Understand
Over the last few days, as the United States has stepped up its bombing campaign…
Hezbollah’s Syria Problem
Hezbollah wants the world to know it still wants death to Israel, it’s just really…
U.S. weighs a new front to create safe zone in Syria
By Karen DeYoung The Obama administration is weighing the opening of a new front in…
Secret British role in halting Isil ‘massacre’ in Lebanon
Tango 10 protects the pass leading to the Christian village of Ras Baalbek near the…
Netanyahu is turning Jerusalem into the new Tehran
No one doubts that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a Jewish patriot with every fiber…
Khamenei Had Said Earlier Too that He cannot Control the IRGC
Last week, fifteen Majlis representatives summoned the minister of intelligence over a report that had…
Friday’s Islamist ‘Uprising’ in Egypt Could Be Bloody
On Friday, while Americans are recovering from Thanksgiving food comas, Egypt might experience its most…
What Difference Would an Iran Deal Make?
Reaching a nuclear deal with Iran is proving to be tough, as evidenced by the…
Iraqi Kurdistan: The Middle East’s Next ‘Little Sparta’?
When US defence officials want to give a compliment to a junior military partner they…
The United States has no good options on Syria
Dennis Ross, a counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, was a special…
Russian sailors restive at Saint-Nazaire shipyards
The “Vladivostok” Mistral-class helicopter carrier in Saint-Nazaire. Last Thursday, “Vladivostok”, the first of two…
Who discovered America?
Several Islamic figures who lived long before Columbus have suggested that some Muslim sailors sailed…
President Obama needs to fix his flawed Islamic State strategy
By Editorial Board THE BEHEADING of another American by the Islamic State brought an appropriately…
Rights and responsibilities of Israel’s Arab citizens
Police clash with protesters in the Arab town of Kafr Kana, November 11, 2014. (Photo…
Qatar Makes Peace With Its Gulf Neighbors
Yesterday, Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani of Qatar was shown kissing the cheek of King…
Syria is Missing
President Barack Obama, with Secretary of State John Kerry, participates in a secure video teleconference…