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Mansour Abbas calls on Arab leaders to abandon their rhetoric calling for an end to Israel as a Jewish state,…
‘Soleimani’s assassination is an achievement, since our main enemy, in my eyes, are the Iranians,’ the head of Israeli military…
Rebel group asked Saudi Arabia to allow ambassador to leave, in a move seen in Riyadh as sign of rift…
DUBAI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Saudi authorities’ willingness to promote critical thinking will determine if a reform drive launched there…
Saad al-Hariri may not run in Lebanon’s next elections, but writing him off may be hasty. Rumors have been…
A group of Arab intelligence directors got together for a secret rendezvous in Cairo last week, DEBKAfile’s sources reveal. The…
Alarmed U.S. officials warned Emirati government, a Mideast ally, that Chinese military presence could hinder ties; construction has halted …
By encouraging outside powers to have a stake in Lebanon, Hezbollah’s foes may create spaces to contain Iran. For a…
Dr Fares Souhaid, leader of the multi-confessional Lebanese Opposition front « Likaa Saydet el Jabal », made a n unprecedented…
Day after day, events confirm that Iran and its allies in the region resort to violence and physical liquidation whenever…
Ahmad Massoud, the leader of anti-Taliban resistance front, has reportedly travelled to Iran to discuss latest developments with prominent Afghan mobilisation forces leader Ismail…
Ending the war under the current circumstances will generate new problems unless further steps are taken to interdict weapons smuggling…
Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper has folded following a years-long financial struggle BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Daily Star, one of the leading…
DUBAI, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s central bank had a $4.7 billion hole in its reserves by the end of…
Tehran no longer takes Washington seriously, so the Biden administration needs to put the prospect of military escalation back on…
(Photo: MP Jamil Sayyed and his close (no less corrupt) friend and Hezbollah Security Chief, Wafiq Safa) WASHINGTON –…
After months of nebulous plotting, the domestic and foreign actors who drove opposition to Hamdok’s reformist government will become more…
Hezbollah faced justice twice, and twice rejected it! First in 2005, when it rejected the International Tribunal to investigate…
A quick comment on Michael young’s An Investigation in Lebanon Has Led to Armed Clashes Reminiscent of the Civil War.…
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa. What Happened? On October 14,…
Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards celebrate a missile launch When Hamas and Islamic Jihad fire missiles at Tel Aviv, Israel…
At a moment when big powers’ interests converge with those of regional « expansionist » powers at the expense of…
Oggi bisogna esasperare la crisi sociale per favorire l’accordo internazionale che si vorrebbe favorire per riaprire la pipe-line che dall’Egitto…
Doha, Qatar is one of the Persian Gulf cities which would be most at risk from a spent fuel fire…
(photo caption: billboard raised in the shiite village of Brital in Hermel accusing Hezbollah of a series of killings) …
Regional and international actors are accumulating cards to engage in a new Middle Eastern power game. Republicans in…
The latest statistics show more than 110,000 additional COVID-19 deaths in Iran over the past six months While many Iranians…
Benny Peled, left, the air force chief during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Credit: IDF Archive at the Defense Ministry…
(A phone conversation between French president and Iran’s « unelected » president provided the green light for the formation of…
And how the Iranian regime forces them to love it As the world watched the US Marines pull down…
La formazione del nuovo governo libanese è stata salutata dal premier uscente dall’aereo. Lui, indagato dai magistrati per la catastrofe…
On September 15, US President Joe Biden, United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison launched…
The multi-confesstional opposition front, Likaa Saydet al-Jabal, an offshoot of the historic March 14 movement, following its meeting on…
What Happened? After more than a year of waiting, Lebanon has a new government. The new prime minister, Najib Mikati,…
In a communiqué commenting the formation of a new Lebanese government, Likaa Saydet al-Jabal », an offshoot of the historical…
To avoid the worst outcomes, Washington needs to assiduously enforce any deals with the new Afghan leadership, cooperate effectively with…
Trouble is piling up for Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah (pictured above). Currently on trial in Geneva on charges of conspiracy…
Only a barbwire separates thriving Israel from free falling Lebanon Lebanon is in free fall. Its economy is in…
BEIRUT (AP) — Driving back to base after firing rockets toward Israeli positions from a border area last month, a…
Far from being exceptions, botched American withdrawals have tended to be the rule in the broader Middle East. An…
Pakistani efforts to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan threaten to reinforce ultra-conservative inclinations in Pakistan itself, the world’s second-most…
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (center) in Qatar’s capital Doha on July 18, 2021. Islamabad has long fostered the fighters but…
On August 20, six days before the Kabul airport terrible attack, the Afghan Taliban said it had executed Abu Omar…
(The late Jalaluddin Haqqani, historical head of the Haqqani network) AMONG the many ironies of the US war in Afghanistan…
New President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration picks leave no doubt about the direction of his government Arash AziziArash Azizi is a…
Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary Commandant Massoud and commander in chief of the afghan resistance in Panjshir, transmitted this…
To make UNIFIL more effective and prevent dangerous destabilization in the south, the Security Council should review the force’s mandate…
Hezbollah’s actions in the past year and a half have turned many Lebanese against the party. If Hezbollah believes…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security…