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The Russian VECTOR research center maintains one of just two repositories of smallpox-causing virus in the world. Credit: US Government…
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil trader IMMS has taken Lebanese bank BankMed to court in the U.S. state of New York…
Outline Executive Summary The road to the fall of the Lira Causes Consequences Containing the crisis Appendix References Tables Table…
Download the full testimony Editor’s Note: Jeffrey Feltman testifies before the House Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa,…
In an exclusive interview with Radio Farda, the former queen of Iran, Farah Pahlavi has responded to Iran’s Supreme Leader…
TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (MNA) – According to the made estimations by an Iranian security organization, during the organized unrest in…
Large protests rocked major Iranian cities Friday and continued Saturday, with clashes reported between protesters and security forces in at…
In a new election Netanyahu would be fighting for his life. He would go for broke and try to attack…
BEIRUT High, cement blast walls surrounding the United Nations offices in central Beirut are covered with anti-government graffiti. “Down with…
Putin never goes on state visits unless major things are happening. This week has seen a full ceremonial 21-gun…
The kingdom already has much of the equipment needed to intercept Iranian air attacks, but it needs Washington’s help on…
Emboldened by their success in attacking Gulf and U.S. interests with relative impunity, Iranian leaders are now aiming to disgrace…
By DANIEL LIPPMAN John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s fired national security adviser, harshly criticized Trump’s foreign policy on Wednesday at a…
What is happening in Afghanistan is already beyond grief. The United States is negotiating with the Taliban, without the Taliban…
Israel is currently considering a unilateral strike on Iran and was monitored by the U.S. as it spied on Tehran…
Unnamed official says Israel’s focus is now on preventing Iranian precision missiles reaching Lebanon and Syria, casts doubt on American…
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE STATEMENT BY SECRETARY POMPEO August 29, 2019 Sanctioning of Jammal Trust Bank The U.S. Department of…
In a country where atheism is a capital offense, nonbelievers are still finding quiet ways to forge community. For Pakistani…
Two crates reportedly belonging to Hezbollah containing critical technical machinery that were destroyed in a drone strike attributed to Israel…
As a crude generalization, one could say that democracy rests on three things: government by the majority of the state’s…
A high-profile trial against businessmen, a former minister, and two dozen accomplices shines a spotlight on illicit cigarette production, widespread…
if Iran’s proxies forced Israel into an all-out war, for any reason, Israel (should) respond immediately and forcefully against Tehran,…
I recently attended two events connected to the role of social media in our daily lives. One was the much-reviled…
In an exclusive interview with Play the Game, a former match-fixer tells how effectively criminal syndicates are still manipulating sports…
The group’s local partners balked when U.S. officials warned them to back off a recent political smear campaign, but more…
Alexander Rayko Alexiev was named for his father, the famous painter, caricaturist, and satirist Rayko Alexiev, who was tortured and…
Contrary to prevailing conceptions, it turns out that the Arab public yearns to participate in determining the political and social…
Its not about sex. You might think that it was all about sex if you read many of the articles…
File photo – The Suez canal, which is the short way for Iran to send a ship to Syria, but…
One hundred years after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which set the terms for the end of World War…
Opinion: The fight over control of strategic assets in Syria has gone up a notch after Russia expels pro-Iranian militias…
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A group of 19 Catholic priests and academics have urged bishops to denounce Pope Francis as…
The fall of the nearly 30-year regime of Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir was almost entirely due to the heroism and…
Just by getting rid of a dictator, Sudan’s protestors (as well as Algeria’s) have ended the new, counterrevolutionary normal in…
To forge a better future, the country must break the vicious cycle of military rule followed by incompetent, corrupt rule…
The most the Arabs can aspire to is to provide indirect help in forging a “Jewish unity” government. This indicates…
Exclusive: Parliament speaker Nabih Berri’s links with Iran are focus of White House ire The United States is considering…
A mural for the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran was installed in Valiasr Square in Tehran last…
In the introduction to his 2006 book “The God Delusion,” author Richard Dawkins boldly declares his goal: “If this book works…
Dudu Tassa’s new album, El-Hajar, (Exile) is winning over listeners in Iraq, where his grandfather and great uncle were once…
And other findings from the largest domestic study of sexual desire ever conducted Most Americans don’t experiment with what we…
Tehran’s harsh policy in the Syrian conflict is increasingly at variance with the interests of Moscow in the region, says…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stands with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (center) and Metropolitan of Kiev Epiphanius I (right)…
Last spring, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a number of documents from fixers at the heart…
In departing interviews, Gadi Eisenkot says IAF struck thousands of targets in Syria, determined to halt Tehran’s plans for regional…
By Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Nicholas Fandos WASHINGTON — In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement…
A member of Iran’s parliament says the country’s foreign policy has “a lot of unneeded costs” and these can “leave…
The establishment of the State of Israel triggered the end of centuries of Jewish life in the Arab speaking world…
As the New Year dawns across the sports integrity world, there are a number of vast zombie organizations staggering across…