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Ukraine is no Syria, and Putin’s miscalculations are astonishing—but the West still faces grave risks of its own, including military…
Coincidence or not, the Israeli-Arab-American Negev Summit took place yesterday, Sunday, on March 27, the anniversary date of the aborted…
Syria is being drawn into a de facto coalition that may aim to limit Iran’s reach in the Levant …
During the War of Attrition, Israeli pilots killed dozens of Soviets in Egypt in order to protect the country’s security…
Putin had what he wanted: he defied the United States and the Atlantic alliance, invaded Ukraine to impose by force…
Dear Friends, In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s unconscionable and horrendously destructive invasion of Ukraine, Orthodox Christians across the…
Remember Grozny in 1999 under Putin’s direction, which cost 80 000 lives Look at Aleppo in Syria and how Russia…
(In this photo taken on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, Russian Orthodox priest Father Vasily Gelevan speaks during an interview with…
(French military equipment is unloaded from a freight airplane at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania last Thursday.) The United…
(First published in Newlines, Metransparent published Frederic C. Hof’s « warning » on December 29, 2021. We thought it was…
(photo caption: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed a decree on January 5, 2019, granting autocephaly, or independence, to the…
Grandstand We, Russian scientific researchers and journalists, express…
Accord not to cover Iran’s distabilization actions, atomic bomb “weaponization” and nuclear-capable missiles! METransparent Exclusive Reliable European sources…
(Beirut, 1987: A ceasefire was arranged to allow for the evacuation of those who got killed or injured by Shia…
Image caption, Mossad is suspected of being behind the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh By…
One of the cruelest aspects of the Syrian Civil War was the ethnic cleansing. Every side did it, purging populations…
DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Iran will send a large trade delegation to the United Arab Emirates in February, the…
WHY are we the ones being insulted by the Palestinians? When they are happy, they curse the Gulf leaders…
Yemen’s Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, controls the capital city of Sana and much of the northern part of the country,…
A Lebanese woman burns a poster bearing portraits of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other politicians with Arabic words that…
The attack of January 17 will force the United Arab Emirates to make one of two choices, neither of them…
(Sir Gilbert Clayton anGeorge Antonius (in white suit) with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud (centre), Jedda c 1925) In an…
(NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight-ready James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments are prepped…
Rather than rehabilitating the Assad regime through willful negligence in its sanctions policy, the administration should escalate economic pressure on…
Qatar has begun to cleanse its schoolbooks of supremacist, racist or derogatory references as well as celebrations of violent jihad…
Dear friends, It is with pleasure, following eight months of work, to share the latest monograph I published titled “Pan…
Long banned, Christmas has finally, at least tacitly, arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use the name in marketing or…
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…