Lebanon’s recent municipal elections had more of a national dimension to them than usual. Because parliamentary elections have been postponed…
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U.S. officials have warned a collapse of the Mosul Dam is inevitable without urgent repairs, but work is moving slowly…
The incoming Minister of Defense has been championing the idea of a comprehensive arrangement between Israel and the Arab world…
For the past two years, Washington has focused its attention on northern Syria, where it has attempted to strengthen the…
Gadi Eisenkot, right, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem in February. CreditMenahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse…
By all appearances, the Arab world today looks awash in extremism, but the prominence of violent and regressive elements is,…
Gen. Qasem Soleimani is the commander of the Quds Force, the branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards operating abroad. He has…
Image from May 2016 ISIS video in support of ISIS Sinai Wilayah The social media phenomenon that is the…
Mustafa Bedreddine has reportedly been killed by an Israeli warplane near Damascus. ALEX ROWELL To close friends, he is “Dhu…
Captured Syrian MiG-23s at an Israeli museum. Photo via Wikipedia After five years of war, there’s still life in the…
Coalition units and allied Yemeni forces have fought a successful and timely campaign to stem the al-Qaeda affiliate’s runaway growth…
How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. By DAVID SAMUELS Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for…
Mona Eltahawy CAIRO — After I gave a reading in Britain last year, a woman stood in line as I…
A girl looks through a fence at a camp for migrants and refugees near the Greek village of Idomeni not…
Varied views on whether Quran should influence laws in countries BY JACOB POUSHTER As strife in the Middle East continues…
There was a time when ‘Israeli independence’ was the chief focus of the left’s leaders, Jews and Arabs alike. …
As long as Syrian civilians are on the bullseye, nothing will be accomplished at peace talks. Speaking to the BBC…
Stephen Sestanovich, a professor at Columbia University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the author of “Maximalist:…
BY PETER SCHWARTZSTEIN / QUARTZ No matter where you turn when covering ISIL’s two years of terror in Iraq and Syria, one…
One civil court’s ruling has created an important precedent in a country where there is a dual justice system in…
With the problem of power outages seemingly unsolvable, Palestinians have begun adopting solar technology, with more and more public institutions…
A view of Tiran island from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. (AFP/Getty Images) By Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM…
Michael Knights is a Boston-based Lafer fellow of The Washington Institute, specializing in the military and security affairs of Iraq,…
Nadine Al-Budair made three-minute speech on Saudi Arabian news show Told fellow Muslims to admit that terrorists are not a…
Iranian missile tests highlight regional need for upgraded air-defense systems Tests by Iran last month of long-range ballistic missiles, reportedly…
Out-of-date Iranian banking practices and rank deception have made international banks leery of risking their reputations. On March 22, Supreme…
The Saudi-led coalition has waged a dynamic campaign, but all actions so far constitute a prelude to the tougher fighting…
Spain, or at least the Spain of Islamic conquest and primacy, Al-Andalus, looms large in the Islamist psyche, particularly so…
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” was my favorite novel, and its hero, Robert Jordan, my literary idol. Like him, Delmer…
By Nadav Pollak and Michael Knights The coalition has restricted Iranian resupply of the Houthis by air and sea,…
Part 1 of this three-part PolicyWatch covered the ground campaign (seehttp://washin.st/1LMXKHC); part 3 will cover the naval campaign. ****************************** The…
Sulaimaniya, Iraq — As one could see from President Obama’s recentinterview in The Atlantic, he pretty much hates all the…
BY PATRICK TUCKER Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get there, which is no easy…
In 2015, Alain Grignard said there were radicals the police didn’t know about David Axe Suicide bombers struck an airport…
Israeli Druze wave their community’s flags during a demonstration on June 14, 2015, in reaction to a shoot-out in northwest…
Forbes Putin’s regime is less stable than meets the eye, and Russia’s future remains uncertain. On March 14, as peace…
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of the country’s multiple sharpening fault lines that are exploding into political violence on…
Reuters A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding…
Putin’s war could be unraveling. BY DOMINIC TIERNEY Last September, Russia deployed dozens of jets to Syria to rescue…
by Ronen Bergman In May 2000, Israeli PM Barak made a brave decision that surprised the world to pull the IDF…
Liberal Saudi journalist Nadine Al-Budair, who lives in Dubai, penned an article in the Kuwaiti dailyAl-Rai in which she wondered…
As the election process and continued regional aggression make clear, the regime won’t change what it’s doing at home or…
Patrick Megahan Precision guided munitions (PGMs) encompass a growing range of bombs and missiles designed to destroy targets on land,…
Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly A still from a video released by Dira al-Watan (Nation Shield), shows…
Icon of the “21 New Martyrs of Libya” by Egyptian-American artist Tony Rezk The Islamic State (ISIS) and its former…
For such zones to succeed, they must be backed with militarily enforced no-fly zones and a persuasive response to Moscow’s…
ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of 2011 aroused enthusiasm at…
By George Soroka In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington memorably bemoaned that, whereas in the West there has historically…
On January 25-27, 2016, several hundred Muslim religious leaders from throughout the world and fifty non-Muslim observers met in the…
With ample Russian and Iranian help, regime forces have cut the rebels’ main lifeline in the north, and they will…