Moscow has intensified its military deployments in sensitive areas and continued its counterproductive diplomatic track, exhibiting a long-game mindset that…
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Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa. What Happened? Lebanese President…
Police line up outside the headquarters of the central bank during an anti-government demonstration in Beirut
For Moscow, Lebanon, a strategic country on the Mediterranean, is an important extension of Putin’s Syria interests. In the…
Israel has carried out dozens of attacks against Iranian ships throughout the Middle East, a report in Maariv claimed on Friday.…
When serving as Assistant Secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs in early 2020, I was asked by a group…
Recent clashes in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan highlight Iran’s vulnerabilities as well as its inability to overcome…
Is Hezbollah undermining its resistance by failing to address Lebanon’s many crises, as the late Anis Naccash implied? Often,…
The former assistant secretary of state in charge of the Middle East portfolio from 2019-2021 discusses his time…
On February 4, Lokman Slim, a writer, publisher, political analyst, filmmaker, and NGO director was assassinated in south Lebanon, with…
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s head of economic and engineering arm resigned on Sunday, raising speculation that he will…
The Vatican’s outreach to Iraq is laudable in its goal of decreasing religious violence, but Western officials should be realistic…
The story of two Syrian exiles – Anwar R, 58, and Anwar al-Bunni, 61 (pictured) – is a tale that has…
In seeking to salvage the JCPOA, Biden should not assume cooperation from Moscow, but instead focus on building a unified…
In an interview, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff recalls the movie he shot in Lebanon at the height of its civil…
Olympic powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah will go on trial in Switzerland this month in a forgery case By GRAHAM…
By ceding control of its borders and airspace to various foreign actors, the regime has essentially resigned itself to a…
Jews and Muslims make peace, but this endangered minority lacks a regional voice. The announcement that Israel would normalize…
He was not anti-Hezbollah or Iran he was a pro free and democratic Lebanon. Never served anyone’s agenda other than…
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY ANTONY J. BLINKEN February 4, 2021 Assassination of Lebanese Activist Lokman Slim The United States condemns the…
Lebanese activist and Hezbollah critic Lokman Slim. (Twitter) The death of Shia anti-Hezbollah activist Lokman Slim was not a random killing. It…
This op-ed was written by WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Andrea Mifano, was orginally published on the Brazilian Jewish news…
Rioting has rocked Lebanon’s second city of Tripoli for four straight nights, with protesters torching the provincial government headquarters and…
Much of the world reacted to Biden’s inauguration with a sigh of relief. In the Mideast, it was met with…
As the Biden administration enters office, several assumptions about the Middle East will have to be abandoned. The arrival…
Peace by decree works for Gulf autocracies, but it is no model for Pakistan’s raucous democracy. Normalization faces formidable obstacles…
Kuwait’s new government has affirmed a sense of continuity, when the country’s problems require change. Kuwait’s new government is readying…
Defense minister tells Asharq al-Awsat newspaper Jerusalem is a ‘spacious city full of sites sacred for all,’ but stresses Israel…
Anwar al-Bunni: ‘I never lost my belief in a better Syria. I am sure we will win.’ Photograph: Michael Danner/The Guardian…
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI is seen at Essaouira’s ‘House of Memory’ in January 2020 in a photo provided by the…
(a poster raised in Beirut center: « they pretended we were many peoples, it turns out we are only one…
Relatives of victims of the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion hold portraits of their loved ones killed during the explosion,…
A reliable new public opinion poll conducted in Lebanon, completed just three weeks ago, offers the first solid proof that…
The late Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden famously said, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse,…
Kuwaitis will be electing 50 parliament members (MPs) from five constituencies to represent them in the 16th legislative session of…
When the “October 17th” (2019) Revolution erupted in Lebanon, it included all (religious) communities and age groups. No political party…
A Biden administration may bring crisis-ridden Lebanon a reprieve, even if some things will remain the same. The election…
Shaffaf invites its readers to view Duki Dror’s documentary at ARTE channel, on November 17, 20.30. https://youtu.be/tXVk5Q_3rwo * …
(Reuters) – Antony Blinken, a veteran diplomat and longtime confidant of President-elect Joe Biden, is expected to play a senior…
The US envoy to Lebanon said on Monday that head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement MP Gebran Bassil, who has…
Gibran Bassil peaks with lawmaker Ziad Asswad, center, a member of his parliament bloc, at the presidential palace, in Baabda…
Treasury Targets Corruption in Lebanon November 6, 2020 Washington – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign…
A famous « no reconciliation » cartoon, depicting reconciliation as a « stab in the back of Palestinians »! …
(photo caption: Hezbollah pro-Iran militia invaded the Lebanese capital on May 7, 2008) First – On the issue…
A man and woman are pictured in a file photo walking through the rubble of destroyed buildings in Deraa, Syria.…
The clay soil of the “Labouneh” area, which overlooks the Lebanese and Israeli sides of the border, allowed Hezbollah to…
Razan Zaitouneh and Colonel Akaidi understood how the Syrian revolution would go better than I did I was waiting…
Shortly before we presented the Clinton parameters on peace to the Israelis and Palestinians in December 2000, I briefed Bandar…
To paraphrase the medieval Spanish Jewish poet, physician and philosopher Yehuda Halevy, it can be said that the long-standing motto…