Agence France-Presse – 03 April, 2007 The new petition – the first during the reign of King Abdullah- represents the…
Author: Sarah Akel
– Iqbal Latif – Wajid Shamsul Hasan
Far more than in Shiite areas, sectarian hatred has shredded what remained of community life in Sunni neighborhoods of Baghdad
By Karen DeYoung Each day, thousands of pieces of intelligence information from around the world — field reports, captured documents,…
He beat her and threatened her with murder. But because husband and wife were both from Morocco, a German divorce…
To most Western minds, madrasahs are breeding grounds for terrorists. But that’s only one side of the coin. The syllabus…
An enduring image of General John Abizaid is of him bounding from an armored Humvee in one of Baghdad’s toughest…
By Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, March 16, 2007; A01 BAGHDAD — U.S. troops are conducting security sweeps…
WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi…
World Defense Review columnist Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an…
Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Ms. Arbour, I still remember our meeting in May 2005,…
The Daily Star Two Tuesdays ago, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt spent 35 minutes with the president of the…
After the Damascus Spring Shortly after I arrived in Damascus last June, Amr Nazir Salem, the minister of telecommunications and…
A. Mahjar Barducci The Mecca agreement is not just a starting point for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.…
According to the AFP, Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists rallying outside a Tehran court…
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the Holocaust conference held in Tehran…
SPIEGEL ONLINE World Press Photo Mix-Up The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows upscale young Lebanese men and…
The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get hold of their enemy defies…
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a result of its uprising against…
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah regime is facing a little-noticed…
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al…
By Wieland Wagner SPIEGEL ONLINE – China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the…
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns…
The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to discuss Islam, Muslims, or Arabs…
FROM WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW Published 22 Feb 07 World Defense Review columnist Violence, Islamism, and Terror in the Sahel Earlier…
Extra, extra, read all about it: The Saudi-Jewish entente is here. The Saudis are rolling out a charm offensive and…
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over…
The president is nippy and abrasive. This is what all those who have worked closely with him during his 2-month…
While the world is busy watching the developing crises in the Middle East, Morocco is independently moving toward modernization, but…
Poverty is not a shame. The shame is to deny its existence and to do nothing to combat it. Bearing…
On the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the United States reaffirms its support for…
SAUDI ARABIA’S WORLD The Saudi Arabia which German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit this weekend sees itself as a force…
March 15, 2005 The Bush Administration’s policy of “constructive instability” in the Middle East is facing a critical juncture in…
January 25, 2007 After being held in prisoner for 15 years for a remark he made as a young boy,…
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait rarely rebuffs its ally, the United States, partly…
Some two years ago Saudi clerics issued fatwas forbidding Muslims to play soccer unless its rules were replaced by “Islamic…
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon, Jan. 16 — In August, Mohammed al-Seyed watched with some pride as tractors driven by Hezbollah men…
Support Builds for Libyan Dissident Human rights activists and Western diplomats are increasingly concerned about the welfare of Fathi al-Jahmi,…