Hezbollah finds itself near another verge today, that of remaining relevant in the evolving Lebanese state. Hezbollah’s military show of…
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(Abolqassem Delfi, former senior foreign ministry official and ambassador to France) * A former Iranian diplomat says Tehran has gained…
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, US President Nixon, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval office on November…
The Lebanese Hezbollah militant group held a rare demonstration of the group’s fighting power this week in an apparent attempt…
(An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:13 a.m. Pacific Time, Oct. 2, 2019,…
(A clay model from Mesopotamia, dated ∼1800 BCE, shows a couple kissing. The original is kept at the British Museum.)…
Will this week’s Arab summit breath new life into a Saudi-Syrian understanding over Lebanon? One politician who will…
Istanbul- Recent Polls Suggest Erdogan’s Imminent Defeat in the First Round of Elections According to the projections of the…
A former Iranian diplomat says Tehran may have concluded that it should replace idealism with pragmatism to end the long-standing…
Exactly one hundred years after the birth of the Soviet Union on December 30, 1922, we could well be witnessing…
Who Disbanded Iraq’s Army and De-Baathified Its Bureaucracy? Print this article Send by email Share on Twitter Share on…
Iraqis find themselves under censorship and tyranny of Islamist Iran There is one country in the world that celebrates the…
In what was seen as an escalation by the Sudanese regular armed forces (SAF), units belonging to the rival Rapid…
BY JAY LOSCHKY STORY HIGHLIGHTS Saudi Arabia more popular in all 13 Muslim-majority countries surveyed Iran deeply unpopular everywhere except…
In May 2021, The Economist magazine declared Taiwan to be the most dangerous place in the world. That could seem…
Editor’s Note:This article is drawn from the inaugural James N. Mattis Lecture at the American Academy in Berlin, delivered by…
ROME – By the time he marked a decade at the pinnacle of power, it was clear that under this…
Brief Analysis In a climate where many clerics are unhappy about their situation and some are losing faith in the…
Is the leadership in Iran trying to change course or are we witnessing a new tactic? The signals coming…
UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Dr. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, speaks during CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston, Texas on…
Having been to the terrible Auschwitz camp to bear witness to the sufferings of the Jewish people, I salute the…
Lawyers had thought Lebanese judiciary’s move to end its housing loans investigation would jeopardise principality’s case Monaco is continuing…
it’s being said that Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin, and the Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Gallagher, feel uncomfortable with the…
What Happened? In a speech on Monday, Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, for the first time publicly declared his support for…
In February 2022, when the war in Ukraine erupted, retired Russian Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov voiced his extreme misgivings. He claimed…
The vow of “never again” taken by virtually all nations after the Second World War remains unfulfilled. I…
Western countries have finally approved deliveries of dozens of Abrams, Leopard 2 and Challenger tanks to Ukraine. Deliveries of combat…
Russian drone manufacturer, established in same city as visited by Iranian drone delegation, also advertises Western drone components …
For the past five months of unrest, the largest Sunni Mosque in Iran, the Grand Makki Mosque – founded as…
A prominent Iranian economist in a letter meant to reach Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that the Islamic Republic…
( J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory where the atomic bomb was designed, and Manhattan Project director…
(Photo: The man in a white robe waving to the crowd is late Saudi King Faisal on his visit to…
Taliban bans on women’s education and employment by foreign aid organisations operating in Afghanistan are having unintended consequences. The bans…
A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest…
(Note: This piece was written before the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on January 27.) “I expect we’ll see an…
The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is living on borrowed time. The tide of history is turning, and everything…
The party is facing challenges in Lebanon and the region, but has limited options for dealing with them. …
(Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk) ROME – Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic…
The Supreme Leader’s representative in the city of Karaj says the reason for low precipitation in the country is a…
BY BRAD DRESS A war games simulation of a full-scale Chinese invasion of the self-governing island nation of Taiwan predicts “heavy…
Sicily’s onetime mafia order reached its highest state of perfection in Lebanon. All too often, criminality is seen as…
DECEMBER 16, 2022 “For too long, Hezbollah and others in Lebanon’s political class have continuously failed to prioritize the…
(First published on May 12, 2021) After its history was manipulated, shrine rarely attracted Islamic attention Reporting on Jerusalem’s…
Jordanians protesting soaring fuel prices don’t distinguish between the severe economic crisis and the widespread corruption – and the king’s…
Although not much can be done about disarming Hezbollah at the moment, any serious Western policy will need to focus…
Gebran Bassil has just been humiliated by Hezbollah, but that will likely not end his ties with the party. …
Has Khamenei’s regime really disbanded the morality police, as reported by the AFP on Sunday? The decision, if true, would…
The Abraham Accords, now past their second anniversary, have offered a new and different model for regional relations and, in…
A heaving mass of flesh and energy has brought life to the host nation’s matches at the World Cup. They…
31 August 2022 For Russia, six months of war have led not only to colossal irreplaceable losses in manpower, but also…