A U.S.-sanctioned, Iran-backed militia leader aims to sideline the country’s Chaldean Patriarch and take over billions of dollars’ worth of…
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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…
Hezbollah finds itself near another verge today, that of remaining relevant in the evolving Lebanese state. Hezbollah’s military show of…
(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…