Author: Sarah Akel

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 25 — On a marshy peninsula 50 miles from this Red Sea port, King Abdullah of…

By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA’s…

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Islamabad/Brussels, 22 October 2007: The insurgency in Balochistan province will only subside when free, fair and transparent elections establish a…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad may be gaining support across the Muslim world for his fervent criticism of the United States,…

The following is the latest entry in Mohammad Ali Abtahi’s weblog (http://www.webneveshteha.com/en/weblog/). Mr Abtahi was, during the second term of…

Hyphenated Europeans – like hyphenated Americans – help stymie the fear that angry right wingers – European and Muslim -…

By DAVID S. CLOUD WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former…

American citizens must face the fact that torture is happening ‘in their names’ and by their country – despite George…

Even as President Ahmadinejad denies the existence of gay Iranians, this Atlantic report describes the history and practice of homosexuality…

Illustration by John Blackford. By Peter van Agtmael/Polaris (desert), Konstantin Inozemtsev/Alamy (money). Billions over Baghdad Between April 2003 and June…

The nation of Saudi Arabia is 77 years old – richer and more internationally prominent than ever. But there are…

ometimes in international relations it is good to preserve mystery. The irony is that often when an action has been…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opposes French calls for European Union sanctions against Iran. He will back up his case…

Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter, Washington, and Michael Sheridan ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit – almost…

Mystery surrounds last week’s air foray into Syrian territory. The Observer’s Foreign Affairs Editor attempts to unravel the truth behind…

Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter in Washington and Michael Sheridan IT was just after midnight when the 69th…

Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 13, 2007; A12 North Korea may be cooperating with Syria on some sort of…

Rosh Hashanah is very different from other Jewish holidays. A thread of universalism runs through it, and its prayers differ…

The terror arrests in Germany on Tuesday shocked the country. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with terror expert Edwin Bakker about homegrown…

It has been unsurprising that since Abdullah Gul became president of Turkey on 27 August that much misguided analyses has…

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his…

A majority of Turks still wants to see their country firmly anchored in the West. But their patience is wearing…

A BRITISH general who was at the centre of plans to rebuild Iraq last night called for an immediate public…

Lebanese and Syrian activists organized a press conference yesterday in Beirut to evoke the cases of few thousand lebanese still…

(Full text of petition, in arabic, on: http://www.middleeasttransparent.com/article.php3?id_article=1972 Agence France-Presse – 31 August, 2007 Saudi activists will address a petition…

Sept. 3, 2007 issue – The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama…

Emin Colasan was born on 14 March 1942 in Ankara, his surname, which literally means desert strider, makes reference to…

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 — Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led…

By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, August 22, 2007; A01 Former central intelligence director George…

Press release from former member of Syrian Parliament Riad Seif: More than two months after tests confirmed that I have…

One month ago, a branch of the air force intelligence in Damascus summoned the citizen, Misbah Aladdin, to interrogate him,…

Baghdad’s new Kurdish-Shiite coalition may end efforts at national reconciliation with the Sunnis. But a government pursuing common interests is…

Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 20, 2007; A01 By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a…

The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq–but the road to victory now requires…

By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 19, 2007; A03 The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay…

More than 60 Saudi activists have signed a petition calling for the release of a group of reformists held in…

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 16 — As President Pervez Musharraf begins his campaign this week for re-election to another five-year term,…

Translation By Amira Kashgary Saudi Poet and dissidetn Ali Al-Dumaini dedicated this poem: To Fatima and Mansour who have been…

Benazir Bhutto, 54, served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan between 1988 and 1996. SPIEGEL spoke to her about…

The Iranian photographer and writer Haleh Anvari is fed up with being fought over by the combatants of the ‘Clash…

Two years after the Taliban fell to an American-led coalition, a group of NATO ambassadors landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, to…