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U.S. counterterrorism director announces multi-million dollar reward for information leading to arrest of two Hezbollah officials Haaretz and Reuters …
In his first interview since taking office, IDF Chief of Staff Eisenkot tells Ynet about the IDF’s covert operations to…
President Donald Trump’s best Middle East friend and ally, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, arrived in Moscow Thursday Oct.…
Jewish refugees who had been turned away at the Swiss border By Thomas Stephens On September 25-26, 1942, the annual conference…
A recent indictment prompts questions about the real value of the investigation and trial of Rafik al-Hariri’s assassins. On September…
Saudi Arabia’s long-awaited lifting of a ban on women’s driving, widely viewed as a symbol of Saudi misogyny, will likely…
The diurnal sun sets at night, but the sun of the heart never disappears. —Emir Abdel Kader Al Jazairi …
FILE – In this Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal salutes cheering members of Turkish Prime…
By DAVID ZUCCHINOSEPT ERBIL, Iraq — In a region where few people concur on anything, adversaries and enemies in the…
Richard Miniter , CONTRIBUTOR Three years after his death, Lt. Hadar Goldin’s body is being used as a bargaining…
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may…
A month before passing away, Shimon Peres completed the writing of an autobiography that provides a rare glimpse behind the…
Amr Darrag, a senior member of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, will be speaking at Georgetown University on Thursday, and he is trying…
Two Christian women flee after a 2012 bombing of a Nigerian church by Boko Haram. (Credit: AP.) In…
In an interview, Yassin al-Haj Saleh describes how Syrians have been denied any meaning for their suffering. Yassin al-Haj Saleh…
Is Tehran’s Leverage Slipping? Over the last few months, Iraq’s Shiite political groups have intensified their fight for influence in…
KUWAIT CITY — Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Kuwait’s most prominent actor and comedian who delighted audiences with a comical portrayal of Iraqi…
Qatar should transform its political system from a monarchy to a democracy to liberate itself from the isolation imposed by…
Dr Hocine Drouiche calls on Muslims to “take their share of responsibility” in terrorist attacks. France’s Islamic leaders tried to…
Despite collusion between the LAF and Hezbollah, the United States may still have an interest in funding the Lebanese military.…
The Near East, including the Levant, has been central to human prehistory and history from the expansion out of Africa…
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By BEN HUBBARD, MARK MAZZETTI and ERIC SCHMITTJULY AMMAN, Jordan — As next in line to be king of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef was…
The IDF releases video evidence of Hezbollah intelligence gathering operations in southern Lebanon along the Israeli border in violation…
By TIM ARANGO BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt,…
After obtaining his contact information through its accidental exposure by the Washington Post, The MIHS Islander contacted Secretary of Defense…
While Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri’s statement that “we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle…
By BEN HUBBARD, ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTIJUNE BEIRUT, Lebanon — The recently deposed crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Nayef, has been barred…
On June 19, 2017, the Islamic State’s Wilaya (Province) of Raqqa, one of the two main cities of the ISIS…
The United States cannot defeat the Islamic State without first reckoning with Iran’s nefarious role in Syria. Rarely has the…
By Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Two Irish Olympic executives have told Rio police that the head of…
Terrorist killings at Iranian parliament and mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini bring into focus something Riyadh and Tehran have in common…
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, by breaking off not only diplomatic but also economic relations with Qatar,…
Watching pan-Arab media as I do, and as I have on a regular basis for decades, two items caught my…
On 12 April 2017 CAS lifted the suspension of Kuwait Shooting Federation imposed by the General Assembly of the International…
It is no coincidence that ISIS operates in countries such as Iraq, Syria, Egypt and Libya, which in the past…
Cracks have appeared in a Saudi-led, US-backed anti-terrorist political and military alliance days after US President Donald J. Trump ended…
Muslims and Christian Iraqi civilians carry a wooden cross last month near a monastery in Mosul, northern Iraq. A group…
The Department of State has designated Hashem Safieddine and Muhammad al-Isawi as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) under Section 1(b)…
The group Just Beyond Our Border raised over NIS 2 million in crowd funding campaigns to buy medical supplies for…
The Wall Street Journal reports of a document agreed upon by Saudi and Emirates’ leaders under the influence of Donald…
Saudi Arabian singer Rashed Al-Majed performs during a concert in Riyadh, March 9, 2017. By Samia Nakhoul, William Maclean…
Increasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan is struggling to balance relations with rivals Saudi Arabia and…
In the months before Shimon Peres’s passing, journalist Amira Lam held a series of meetings with the man who was…
With no congressional impediments to peace initiatives between the Palestinians and Israelis, Netanyahu worried about the specter of intense US…
As with comedy, timing is everything for the politics of being a state sponsor of terrorism. Political considerations, as much…
In a special interview, the former defense minister reveals what happened to his and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan for a…
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) official and head of the Guam Football Association, who has also been provisionally suspended by…
Washington – On May 4-5, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Treasury hosted the fourth meeting of the Law Enforcement…