The nation of Saudi Arabia is 77 years old – richer and more internationally prominent than ever. But there are…
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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…
Iraq’s national government is refusing to take possession of thousands of American-financed reconstruction projects, forcing the United States either to…
VELEN, Germany — If turning 40 isn’t challenging enough, try preparing for this milestone when you’re as old as one…
My friend, the intellectual Kian Tajbakhsh, is in jail in Iran for, well, being an intellectual. He has had no…
EXONERATE Pardoned Bulgarian Nurses and Palestinian Medic Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) called for the complete exoneration of the five…
A land grab proportionally equivalent to a foreign power occupying Arizona. Tuesday, July 24, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT As of…
The Events in Gaza The Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip was the culmination of two separate processes which began…
(Reuters announced the liberation of Mrs Rima al-Jareesh today) SAUDI ARABIA Dr Abdullah al-Hamid (m), former professor of contemporary literature…