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(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…
Finance Minister says no diplomatic move or agreement can stop the Iranian nuclear program, adds Teheran was surprised by the…
Hezbollah braccio armato dell’Iran in Libano si è opposto alla giustizia due volte. La prima nel 2005, quando ha respinto…
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,…
Kommuniqué vom 18. Oktober 2021 Zweimal war Hisbollah mit der Justiz konfrontiert, zweimal hat sie es abgelehnt! Das erste…
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…
Kommuniqué vom 11. Oktober 2021 In einer Zeit, in der die Rollen von Großmächten und regionalen Staaten, die einen…
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…
Il Likaa di Sayedat el-jabal ha tenuto la sua riunione settimanale e ha emesso il seguente comunicato: Il silenzio…
(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…
In un nuovo comunicato successivo all’incontro del 27 settembre, “Likaa Saydet al-Jabal”, emanazione delle storiche forze del 14 marzo e…
Ein Telefongespräch zwischen den französischen und iranischen Präsidenten gab das grüne Licht für die Bildung der Regierung unter Najib Mikati…
(A phone conversation between French president and Iran’s « unelected » president provided the green light for the formation of…
Maritime Security in the Mediterranean Sea: Deciphering the Security Puzzle Study Launch The Regional Program Political Dialogue South…
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…
New York Times reports that the attack at Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility – for which Israel never took responsibility…
(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…
U.S. officials who visited Israel with CIA Director William Burns believe that the chances of Iran returning to the 2015…
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…
How long do you keep investing in failure? How much effort does one put into reviving a corpse? When can…
Beirut’s deceptive narrative is part of a general Arab and Palestinian style Describing Israeli retaliation to Palestinian and Lebanese…
A former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs diagnoses the country’s incapacitated institutions and prescribes remedies for its…
by Benjamin Weinthal and Jonathan Spyer JERUSALEM — The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy…
(Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom at a 2003 meeting in Ankara with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister at the…