On November 15, armed groups from Misratah, Libya, fired on protestors who had taken to the streets of Tripoli to…
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By Asa Fitch When liquidators closed the books on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International case in May, a…
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear program, released November 14, has generated a profusion of optimistic…
America and Israel are in uncharted waters. Just eight months since President Barack Obama visited Israel on the first foreign…
(Saudi judo player Widan Skahrkhani at the London Olympics) * A vast majority of Saudis favor women having the right…
There were no economic or cultural bonds among his coalition. He was all things to all people. Charisma ruled. *…
Featuring Simon Henderson The first round of Iran nuclear talks in Geneva broke down earlier this month after the P5+1…
As Secretary of State John Kerry and other ministers arrived in Geneva this past weekend, expectations rose that a limited…
BBC Newsnight, a British equivalent of ABC’s 20/20, ran a story on Nov. 6 saying intelligence reports judged that Pakistan…
By JOHN VINOCUR Back in 2011, when the United States killed Osama bin Laden in the middle of the Pakistani…
GIANNI VALENTE VATICAN CITY The date for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Rome to meet Pope Francis has been…
With the latest controversy he created in Turkey, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdoğan took the debate on his much-discussed authoritarianism to…
This week Sunni and Shia Muslims ushered in the Islamic New Year and the beginning of the holy month of…
In the Jewish sector many voters didn’t bother to show up at the polling places for the municipal elections. Some…
There is zero chance he gets acquitted. Forget the protests. Forget the procedural twists and turns. That’s all you need…
CUMALİ ÖNAL, İSTANBUL A recent conference held in Turkey dealt with a topic which, though it has been widely discussed…
LAMİYA ADİLGIZI, İSTANBUL The Islamization of Armenians in Turkey is the product of a long-term and systematic political strategy of…
Gerard De Villier, the spy novelist who was known as France’s answer to James Bond, died on Thursday in Paris.…
Jackson Diehl Deputy Editorial Page Editor “One is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic…
By Ronny Linder-Ganz | Oct. 26, 2013 “Do something, write, tell the world,” cries out Dr. Arieh Avidan, deputy director…
Everyone will no doubt agree that Israel is not a normal country. Perhaps it is also one of the funniest…
Saudi Arabia’s abrupt October 17 decision to refuse a seat on the UN Security Council — an unprecedented occurrence –…
BY MAX FISHER Ever since the United States and Saudi Arabia fell into something of an alliance in the late…
By Fred Hiatt, editor of The Post’s editorial page The issue is whether promoting democracy and human rights should be…
Middle East Report N°14617 Oct 2013 Read full report (pdf) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Often derided for its infighting or dismissed as…
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How does the name sound? Pretty much like Saint Paul’s Mosque in London, or the San Marco Mosque in Venice?…
The Turkish-Israeli relationship became so poisonous early last year that the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is…
With Sunni-Shiite conflict consuming Iraq, Bahrain, Syria, and Lebanon, headlines from the Middle East these days are dominated by news…
MAURO PIANTA AND MARTA PETROSILLO ROME “The worst discrimination is not being considered on equal terms as other citizens”. Speaking…
“What’s going to happen in Syria?” I asked Fawaz, an exiled Syrian musician whom I met in Paris recently. “The…
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Mark Dubowitz Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former Iranian-targets officer in the CIA’s Clandestine Service is…
In a certain sense, the Obama administration’s decision to withhold much of the $1.3 billion in annual aid given to…
By Christoph Reuter Syrian President Assad’s regime is waging a PR campaign to spread stories that discredit its rivals and…
President Barack Obama’s preferred end-state for the Syrian crisis begins with the creation of a transitional governing body peopled on…
I met Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap—who died on Friday—twice. The first time was in the Vietnamese military hospital where I…
In an Oct. 3 op-ed in the New York Times, Vali Nasr asserts that Iran is approaching the nuclear negotiations…
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — United States forces captured a leader of Al Qaeda indicted in the 1998 bombings…
By William Booth ST. CATHERINE’S MONASTERY, Egypt — Thousands of years of tradition say the monastery built here marks the…
Iran consistently accuses the United States and its allies in the Middle East of provoking tension between Shiite and Sunni…
Today, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is down, if not completely out. After the Egyptian military deposed President Mohamed Morsi,…
The Vatican Bank has closed the bank accounts of four foreign embassies accredited to the Holy See, because of suspiciously…
By JULIE BOSMAN Tom Clancy, whose complex, adrenaline-fueled military novels made him one of the world’s best-selling and best-known authors,…
Foreign Policy In relations between states, symbols can be a sign of change — but they can sometimes create false…
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News The land of the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery will be returned to the Syriac community…
An official Iranian protest to the world’s nuclear watchdog could be an attempt to undermine its role in verifying the…
By ERIC SCHMITT and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT WASHINGTON — As the nation’s spy agencies assess the fallout from disclosures about…
By Robert Kaiser This is an odd, engaging book. It involves one native Englishman (the author) and two immigrants, a…
By Samia Nakhoul BEIRUT (Reuters) – In the photograph the two robed men stand shoulder-to-shoulder, one tall and erect, the…
President Rouhani’s track record shows that he is deeply committed to preserving the regime’s longstanding interests, and frequently at odds…