** Fascinating letter by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem at the end of his “mission” and a sober view of…
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** (Photo: New PPP speaker of Parliament, Dr. Fehmida Mirza) ** In his historic play Julius Caesar Shakespeare uses Ides…
Stratfor Global Intelligence Summary Syria’s ruling al-Assad family is experiencing an internal struggle, as the Feb. 12 assassination of top…
In the Middle East, it is widely believed that Syria is obstructing the election of a new Lebanese president. Amid…
When Hezbollah official Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated earlier this month in Damascus, the collateral damage was felt in academic departments,…
** ISLAMABAD: The main wheeler and dealer of the ISI during the 2002 elections, the then Maj-Gen Ehtesham Zamir, now…
RAWALPINDI—Retired Army Generals on Tuesday have asked President Pervez Musharraf to resign in the greatest national interest of the country,…
** Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton Princeton University Press, 2007, 183. pp. This book begins with what…
In response to the February 12 assassination of chief of operations Imad Mughniyeh, Hizballah has ratcheted up its threats, warnings,…
** By Markus Becker New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have…
** (No Mush No: Ex-ISI head Hamid Gul at an anti-Musharraf rally in Islamabad, Jan 31) A bid is on…
For those of us who had connections with Israeli intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal was a household name. For more years…
A UN expert on women’s rights said on Wednesday she had heard accounts of serious discrimination against women and abuses…
NEW YORK — When it comes to Islamic law, or Sharia, words certainly do come easy if you’re a man.…
** Amir Mir- Islam Abad Laith Al Libi, the Libyan al-Commander had been living in Pakistan for almost three years…
** An Excellent article published by Der Spiegel against what the author terms the “preventive capitulation” of the Western world.…
** Tel Quel, Moroccan magazine Translated by Dr. Roberto Barducci Is man, first of all, an individual, or is he…
CAIRO — After he scored a goal in a recent match against Sudan in the African Nations Cup, Egyptian soccer…
Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the arrest of Mr Riyad Seif and detention of…
(Credible fundamentalist Sources, as well as Pakistani semi official sources, have always pretended that ISI knew the exact whereabouts of…
In the summer of 1944, when soldiers of Free France were still fighting alongside the British against the Nazis in…
** Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France, has urged his country’s ambassadors to engage in ‘diplomacy in motion.’ Kouchner,…
Over the past week, Beirut has been rocked by violence yet again. On January 25, a Lebanese Internal Security Forces…
Saudi reformists are to send a new petition to King Abdullah calling for the release of fellow activists and an…
(photo: Maamoun Homsi at Rafik Hariri Memorial, Beirut) Invitation for a sit-in and a hunger-strike By a group of Syrian…
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence operations are set to be restructured so as to be able to cope with international information challenges,…
BERLIN — Death came for Hatun Surucu at a cold bus stop here three years ago. The 23-year-old was the…
(Just to put the historical record straight, the israeli point of view about what happened in Lebanon immediately before the…
The following article was first published by Metransparent on February 23, 2007. Referring to recent events (at the time) in…
Posted by Joris Janssen Lok at 1/14/2008 4:51 AM Andy Nativi writes: Algeria’s Gendarmerie military internal security service will be…
For all the entertainment value provided by so-called chick lit in the Western world–from Britain’s Bridget Jones’ Diary to the…
Last November, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made his seventh trip to Iran . As always, he hugged and took the…
A Foreign Ministry document prepared shortly after the Second Lebanon War challenges Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s claim of major differences…
In an article published recently on the Arab liberal websites Aafaq, Middle East Transparent, and Modern Discussion, Egyptian liberal Hesham…
Israel missed a reasonable opportunity for a cease-fire with Hezbollah during the first week of the Second Lebanon War, which…
This article was first published on The Other Malaysia website, which we just “discovered”. We advise readers of Metransparent to…
One week on from permission to publish “without restrictions”, fresh obstacles arrive. Tensions underline multi-ethnic coexistence. The issue undermines Badawi’s…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — When a Saudi court sentenced a young woman to 200 lashes in November after she…
WASHINGTON — United States intelligence analysts are not convinced by the evidence offered so far by Pakistani authorities that a…
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – The Syrian government denied on Tuesday that President Bashar al-Assad had promised to release seven dissidents who…
Israel needs to internalize that even its supportive friends on the international stage conceive of the country’s future on the…
On December 24th, Saudi writer Iman Qahtani sent us an article (in arabic) on the arrest of Saudi blogger Fouad…
The following is a controversal summary of Iran’s PressTV interview with Lebanses leader Walid Jumblatt. Jumblatt published a communique accusing…
The power of Shiite Muslim clergy has eroded in favor of various competing groups within a unique religious, civil, social…
The Annapolis summit and the efforts to revive the peace process have exacerbated the tension that already existed between Prime…
A demoralizing aspect of much international political behavior, commentary, or policy counsel on Syria in the past two years has…
By its nature, war is a formative event. Often when war begins, various processes come to an end and are…
Former US Diplomat John Bolton is no longer in office, but he still has a lot to say about American…