WASHINGTON — Some time last year, a Kuwaiti man in his early 30s who had spent more than a decade…
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As the United States cobbles together an international coalition of the willing to take the fight to the Islamic State…
Is all well that ends well? Always? Whether it is or not, (most notably) Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, his chief…
IRBIL In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention,…
To the panorama of Iranian subversion of the Middle East, brilliantly described below, the Yemen is, notably, missing. The pro-Iran…
While the United States tries to enlist the support of key Middle Eastern and European allies in its fight against…
DOWNLOAD PDF The Middle East today is characterized by stunning ironies and jarring disconnects. It is almost as though the…
My daily commute from North to East London is an often interesting and strange affair. The mode of transport chosen…
An official State Department photo of the September 11 meeting in Jeddah between Secretary of State John Kerry and King…
While the world focuses on the Islamic State’s advances in Iraq and Syria, the Syrian war is spilling over into…
The Aug. 10 election of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the nation’s first directly elected president provides significant…
As part of the delegitimization of Arab citizens, who constitute about one-fifth of Israel’s population, the Arab language has become…
CAIRO — Standing at the front of a conference hall in Doha, the visiting sheikh told his audience of wealthy…
Everyone, it seems, is now aboard the Let’s Get ISIS Train, shoveling coal into the engine. That’s understandable, given the…
As incoming Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi goes about the business of forming a new government, Iran seems intent on…
On September 9, 2014, a conference organized by the newly formed group “In Defense of Christians” (IDC), will be addressing…
Commenting about George Vassiliou, the late Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş said he was no different than other Greek Cypriot…
There are risks when attacking ISIS, but some more manageable than others. If President Obama is serious that the objective…
In this image made from video by The Associated Press, smoke rises from the direction of Tripoli airport in Tripoli,…
America views its close ally, Qatar, as a terrorist funding trouble spot. Washington has gone so far as to call…
According to the official Saudi Press Agency, the visit by Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, intelligence chief Prince Khaled…
Over the past two months, jihadist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have waged an increasingly…
Politico The Nuri al-Maliki era in Iraq appears to be over. I say “appears” because, although the Iraqi prime minister…
On August 14, outgoing prime minister Nouri al-Maliki officially withdrew his candidacy for reappointment to a third term in order…
If on Sunday, Aug. 10, the residents of Eskişehir and Tunceli voted for Prime Minister / President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,…
The Islamic State in Iraq and Levant’s deep-rooted sense of purpose and its political, financial, and military ability have helped…
Efforts to professionalize soccer in the Saudi Arabia in advance of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are marred by…
The man credited with smuggling 50,000 photos said to document Syrian government atrocities, a Syrian Army defector known by the…
Back in 2012, Israel’s Iron Dome rocket defense system was hailed as a real, working battlefield weapon that could shoot…
Qatar is emerging for the second time in a decade as the only Arab state without a peace treaty and…
On July 26, Secretary of State John Kerry stood next to Qatari foreign minister Khalid bin Mohammad al-Attiyah in Paris…
GIACOMO GALEAZZI ROME From “intellectual heretic” to father of the Church on the big screen, Pier Paolo Pasolini is now…
Libya is a fractured country whose long-simmering violence is threatening to boil over. Internecine fighting once mostly limited to Benghazi…
It’s a balmy Friday morning in Beirut and I’ve just returned to the city after a long five months absence.…
As Saudi Arabia seeks to inoculate itself against the violence, civil disobedience and potential re-writing of colonial-era borders that characterize…
Foreign Policy The death from natural causes of an old man in North Korea this month should have been the…
As Israel’s Operation Protective Edge continues in Gaza, the conflict is affecting almost all major cities in Israel, including communities…
The one thing worth writing about is the heroism of one million seven hundred thousand mortals, flesh and blood…
This Saturday, July 12, there was a solemn ceremony in Cyprus. Forty years after he went missing, the remains of…
I vividly remember the time and place when I knew that the Cold War had ended. It was Aug. 3,…
Together, united by the spirit of the Church of Antioch, where – according to the Acts of the Apostles -…
USA Today Any traveler to the Middle East today can feel the tidal wave sweeping the area. The Arab Awakening…
Share on Facebook It must have been a very difficult decision to make. The presidency of the Turkish Republic must…
As well-publicized bouts of violence, from civil war to suicide bombings, plague the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, concern…
ROME “People fled because they were afraid of the war. But so far Christians have not suffered oppression because of…
It rained heavily during the night of December 3, 2013. Car traffic had nearly stopped altogether when the rented vehicle…
Over the weekend, in what the Telegraph described as “a potential sign of the fraying of the Sunni insurgent alliance…
Overshadowed by Iraq’s intensified security crisis, the country certified the results of the 30 April parliamentary elections on 1 June…
As a radical Islamic army marches across Iraq, America is making a deal with the devil. Qassem Suleymani, the head…
Encouraging signs have emerged that the collapse of federal government control in Iraq may have slowed and that Baghdad is…