In an interview, author Steve Coll discusses his latest book on the quarter-century minuet between the United States and…
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The first Sami Michael book I read was “A Storm among the Palm Trees,” as part of a master’s thesis…
Both countries urgently need U.S. aid to defend themselves against brazen adversaries that seek their annihilation. Iran…
To understand what happened last night during Iran’s direct attack on Israel, one has to go back four…
The effect of melting polar ice could delay the need for a ‘leap second’ by three years. By Elizabeth…
Michael was known for his focus on oppressed minorities and the challenges faced by Jews from Arab countries in the…
The Gulf kingdom has been a rare democratic experiment. But gridlock and the Emir’s mounting impatience with Kuwaiti politics may…
In an interview, Julie d’Andurain talks about her biography of General Henri Gouraud and his experiences in Syria and Lebanon.…
DUBAI, March 15 (Reuters) – With ally Hamas under attack in Gaza, the head of Iran’s Quds Force visited Beirut in…
The American initiative to build a temporary port off the coast of the Gaza Strip is no less than…
Are there “Arabs” among the Israeli hostages kidnapped by “Hamas” on October 7, 2023? That is the claim of an …
The Case for Early Elections After more than four months of war in Gaza, two starkly different but equally accurate…
The floating storage vessel anchored above the offshore field could be a tempting target for Hezbollah. On February 22, natural…
(This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on April 28, 2023, shows an aerial view of black…
A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks…
Jerusalem is ultimately a city of eternal strangers. The connection to the city is not a connection to place, but…
As Tehran moves toward consolidating its regional power, will it agree to ultimately disarm its Arab allies? Can it afford…
These Gulf powerhouses could partner with the US to carry out a sweeping reconstruction in the Strip and transform the…
Most forces could likely be withdrawn or moved to the Kurdistan Region without harming U.S. interests—in fact, Washington might have…
BY NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted…
When he left Syria, after the 1911 uprising , my late friend, the talented writer and screenwriter “Hakam al-Baba,” told…
Is the IDF applying a sort of “Gaza Doctrine” (following the 2006 War “Dahiya Doctrine”) in its daily clashes with…
The United Nations’ top court on Friday ordered Israel to do all it can to prevent death, destruction and any acts…
There is a long-suffering people in Sudan, they live on a rugged mountain in the middle of Darfur. Theirs is…
20 июля 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s coup attempt in June left everyone in the world stunned – except Russian intelligence officials,…
The Lebanese Forces have the largest Christian bloc in parliament, but you wouldn’t know that from their policy of splendid…
Ongoing fighting in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp may be part of a plan to weaken Fatah and undermine normalization…
In a video that has gone viral on Iranian social media this week, well-known economist Mohsen Renani says the clerical…
The person who suffered most of all from Prigozhin’s uprising was Putin. However confident the Russian president may feel in…
For the hundreds of thousands of Israeli democracy defenders who tried to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial coup on…
In his May 16, 2023 column in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, liberal Kuwaiti journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf harshly criticized the curricula…
Current Iraqi rage against the burning of a Quran in Sweden and in Denmark violates both liberty and Islamic teachings — and shows that freedom…
A U.S.-sanctioned, Iran-backed militia leader aims to sideline the country’s Chaldean Patriarch and take over billions of dollars’ worth of…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the…
A curious feature (or maybe a bug) of the war in Ukraine has been the limited use of airpower on…
All as usual for my arrival, once more, at the Teheran Imam Khomeini Airport, or almost! As always, security measures…
Iran’s judiciary chief is pushing to override parliamentary approval on the upcoming hijab bill. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei says there is…
(US State Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June…
(A map from Kuwait’s oil ministry showing the Arash/Durra (Dorra) oil and gas field near the tip of the Persian…
His System of rule simply can’t go on much longer ` The Scarlet Sails festival is one of Russia’s…
The country was in a frenzy last week due to the protest by Druze in the Golan Heights against the…
Members of the Wagner Group look from a military vehicle with the sign “Brother” in Rostov-on-Don late on Saturday. (Photo…
The Russian president was forced to make peace with Yevgeny Prigozhin, whom he described as a ‘traitor,’ in a Russia…
Kasparov tells Kyiv Post: “Putin was right by invoking 1917 [in his TV address on June 24]. This is clearly a 1917…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (R) while attending for speaking with media with his Saudi counterpart Faisal Bin Farhan,…
Christians in Lebanon feel under existential threat, but more isolation would only lead to their ruin. Last week,…
Iranian academic Mohsen Renani says, “Iran’s government is unable to reform itself” to adapt to the needs of a modern…
By Vazha Tavberidze Print Political consultant Abbas Gallyamov used to be one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speechwriters.…
Iran’s hardliner Paydari Party has dismissed long-time conservative figure Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel’s leadership of an umbrella group for a handshake with…
A recent essay touting a “one-state” approach to Israel-Palestinian issues is more about eliminating the world’s only Jewish state than…