Since taking over as director of Military Intelligence (MI) in January 2006,Major General Amos Yadlin has not given an interview.…
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Nothing less than a titanic clash between two logics is at play in Beirut, and in the larger Middle East.…
President Bush returns to the Middle East this week for the second time in 2008. Initially planned to mark Israel’s…
This week, the democratically elected, pro-Western Lebanese government took the bold and unprecedented decision to confront Hizballah. Since its election…
Once we accept that this week’s alleged labor unrest was only the latest phase in Hizbullah’s war against the Lebanese…
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A former Iranian president has said that exporting violence to other countries…
On April 25, a second round of voting will determine the remaining eighty-eight seats of the Iranian Majlis. The first…
I have always been fascinated by the language of politicians. They have a special ability to talk without saying anything,…
Much ado has been made of the Israeli security fence isolating the West Bank. When it is completed in 2010,…
On April 8, Egypt held elections for nearly 53,000 municipal representatives. Not surprisingly, participation was abysmal: Egypt’s ruling faction, the…
Academic Researcher and Lecturer in Asian Studies Interview by Rita Ibrahim You have written a great deal about the connection…
[Bigger than the Vatican, awash in cash. How a shrine built a business empire and wields power.] (For an enlarged…
Is it time for the government to withdraw from the European convention on human rights? That’s the question posed by…
Osama bin Laden flew to London in 1986 to help negotiate the purchase of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles to be used…
The Catholic baptism of the well known journalist, Magdi Allam, Egyptian and non practising Muslim, has been criticised and despised…
This weekend, the much-anticipated annual Arab Summit will convene in Damascus. The run-up to the twentieth summit — the first…
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s center-right party got a rebuke from French voters in recent local elections, with leftist parties narrowly beating…
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb – or AQIM – kidnapped two Austrian citizens in Tunisia on Feb. 22. The hostages…
(New York, March 24, 2008) – Syrian authorities should seek an independent investigation into the March 20 shootings by security…
** Fascinating letter by the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem at the end of his “mission” and a sober view of…
** (Photo: New PPP speaker of Parliament, Dr. Fehmida Mirza) ** In his historic play Julius Caesar Shakespeare uses Ides…
Stratfor Global Intelligence Summary Syria’s ruling al-Assad family is experiencing an internal struggle, as the Feb. 12 assassination of top…
In the Middle East, it is widely believed that Syria is obstructing the election of a new Lebanese president. Amid…
When Hezbollah official Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated earlier this month in Damascus, the collateral damage was felt in academic departments,…
** ISLAMABAD: The main wheeler and dealer of the ISI during the 2002 elections, the then Maj-Gen Ehtesham Zamir, now…
RAWALPINDI—Retired Army Generals on Tuesday have asked President Pervez Musharraf to resign in the greatest national interest of the country,…
** Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton Princeton University Press, 2007, 183. pp. This book begins with what…
In response to the February 12 assassination of chief of operations Imad Mughniyeh, Hizballah has ratcheted up its threats, warnings,…
** By Markus Becker New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have…
** (No Mush No: Ex-ISI head Hamid Gul at an anti-Musharraf rally in Islamabad, Jan 31) A bid is on…
For those of us who had connections with Israeli intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal was a household name. For more years…
A UN expert on women’s rights said on Wednesday she had heard accounts of serious discrimination against women and abuses…
NEW YORK — When it comes to Islamic law, or Sharia, words certainly do come easy if you’re a man.…
** Amir Mir- Islam Abad Laith Al Libi, the Libyan al-Commander had been living in Pakistan for almost three years…
** An Excellent article published by Der Spiegel against what the author terms the “preventive capitulation” of the Western world.…
** Tel Quel, Moroccan magazine Translated by Dr. Roberto Barducci Is man, first of all, an individual, or is he…
CAIRO — After he scored a goal in a recent match against Sudan in the African Nations Cup, Egyptian soccer…
Declaration by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the arrest of Mr Riyad Seif and detention of…
(Credible fundamentalist Sources, as well as Pakistani semi official sources, have always pretended that ISI knew the exact whereabouts of…
In the summer of 1944, when soldiers of Free France were still fighting alongside the British against the Nazis in…
** Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister of France, has urged his country’s ambassadors to engage in ‘diplomacy in motion.’ Kouchner,…
Over the past week, Beirut has been rocked by violence yet again. On January 25, a Lebanese Internal Security Forces…
Saudi reformists are to send a new petition to King Abdullah calling for the release of fellow activists and an…
(photo: Maamoun Homsi at Rafik Hariri Memorial, Beirut) Invitation for a sit-in and a hunger-strike By a group of Syrian…
Saudi Arabia’s intelligence operations are set to be restructured so as to be able to cope with international information challenges,…
BERLIN — Death came for Hatun Surucu at a cold bus stop here three years ago. The 23-year-old was the…