BY ISABEL DEBRE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE – In this July 20, 2016 file photo, Kuwaiti Minister of Defense Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah…
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Hamas may not have realized it when firing its first salvo against Jerusalem, but the challenge of its rockets didn’t…
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif charms Western diplomats, while protecting the theocracy in Tehran. (Published by The Atlantic on MARCH 7,…
Disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic, measures taken to contain it and vaccine roll-out campaigns continues to be significant. Since our…
The main body of the following article was published by Middle East Transparent on April 2007, then reprinted on May…
The foreign minister had much to say about the IRGC branch’s political interference at home and close relations with Moscow,…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of…
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.…
I have tracked U.S.-Turkey ties since 2002. In the past, when a new president was elected after promising to recognize…
Iran International TV has gotten hold of an audio recording in which Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Muhammad Hejazi, deputy head of the Iranian Quds Force, is reported to have died of heart disease. However, a…
Natasha Turak@NATASHATURAK KEY POINTS “I assert that there has been no sincere and clear position with regards to neutrality from…
A Shared Nuclear Policy Is Better for All Sign in and save to read later Save to Pocket Print…
Washington’s conspicuous silence over the nuclear sabotage at Natanz no doubt stems from the fact that Israel has bought more…
In an interview, Frederic Hof recalls how Bashar al-Assad undercut the party’s position on the Shebaa Farms. Frederic Hof…
Gazeta.ru’s military correspondent Mikhail Khodarenok responds to an analysis by Panagiotis Nastos in the Greek news agency Pentapostagma. Nastos claimed…
Whoever winds up spearheading the reconstruction effort, Washington should stay on top of them to ensure that international prerequisites for…
In an interview, Ray Takeyh discusses his recent book on the reign of the late Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray…
Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, addresses thousands of Lebanese at Bkerke, north of Beirut, Feb. 27, 2021, as Lebanon teeters…
In Iran’s conservative Islamic society, prostitution is illegal, immoral, and rarely discussed. But in an investigative documentary by RFE/RL’s Radio…
On March 15, 2021, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with the head of the Hizbullah parliamentary…
Israel election results: Letting Gantz form Israel’s next government would be poetic justice As a state and as a…
Moscow has intensified its military deployments in sensitive areas and continued its counterproductive diplomatic track, exhibiting a long-game mindset that…
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.…
(وفد الحزب إلى موسكو: رجل الحزب القوي، عمار الموسوي، وبجانبه محمد رعد) اشارت معلومات من العاصمة الروسية موسكو ان…
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…