While the Experts Assembly elected this month may be formally tasked with appointing the elderly Khamenei’s successor, the real decision…
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By Andrew Roth MOSCOW — Four months after launching airstrikes in Syria, the Kremlin is confident that Moscow’s largest overseas…
Yaakov Lappin, Tel Aviv – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly The IDF believes that the Russian military presence in Syria is…
By MOHAMMED ALAA GHANEMFEB. 3, 2016 AS the fraught Syria peace talks inch forward in Geneva, the United States finds…
This investigation is a result of leads developed during the investigation into the Lebanese Canadian Bank. FEB 01 (WASHINGTON)…
The leader of the Shi’ite sector in Lebanon, Musa al-Sadr, mysteriously disappeared in Libya in the 1970s. A new book…
When I first visited Saudi Arabia in early 1994, I was amused to see that its government was busily promoting…
KUWAIT, Jan 21 (KUNA) — The Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) has failed to fulfil its “assigned role” to forestall a…
The immediate price of such actions may be the further alienation of an important component of Saudi Arabia: its Shiite…
France is trying to catch up on Prime Minister’s Valls blunder on a TV show last Saturday. PM Valls, apparently…
Said Seraj Mirdamadi has been imprisoned in Iran since May 2014 on charges of threatening national security and propagandizing against…
Some might say that the spirit of the modern age, at least in the developed West, is all about an…
Former foreign minister Jean Ping will officially announce his candidacy for the presidential election of Gabon. Sources said Mr. Ping…
Imam Moussa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, in the 1970s. Mr. Sadr, who lived in Lebanon and became an ardent…
By Ali AlAhmed Washington DC – Saudi King Salman Al-Saud plans to abdicate his throne and install his son Mohammed…
It would be a great loss- human, cultural, scientific, and religious- for Europe (France in particular) if it were to…
By taking an overcautious approach in Syria, the president has highlighted America’s failure to have an open discussion about the…
Having a permanent military foothold in the Gulf will put Turkey in an elite group of powers, but more presence…
The prince’s latest foreign policy initiative is to confer with Islamabad, presumably seeking help with Iran, and potentially including military…
Saudi Arabia is using soccer and its influence in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to expand its campaign to isolate…
Although the latest Kurdish offensive runs the risk of spurring direct Turkish intervention, it could also help isolate Islamic State…
A tritium device, maybe … or maybe not Robert Beckhusen North Korea claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear —…
By Liam Morgan The Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has recommended suspended secretary general Jérôme Valcke be banned for…
Unless the Obama administration demonstrates stronger resolve in responding to Iranian aggression, the Saudis and other Gulf monarchies will continue…
Written more than two thousand years ago, texts by ancient Greeks still have a major impact on the modern militaries…
U.S. officials concerned that Iran-Saudi conflict could undermine broader efforts in Middle East By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON—The sudden upheaval that shattered…
The Assad regime in Damascus has depended on Lebanon’s Army of God to shore up its weakened troops. But now…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suffered in the run-up to crucial elections in early 2016 what amounted to at least a…
Effort to limit violence and get president to relinquish power failed By NOUR MALAS and CAROL E. LEE The Obama administration…
Working alongside Russian forces will likely enhance the group’s ongoing shift toward a more offensive-minded strategy, with significant implications for…
John Kerry, the sixty-eighth Secretary of State of the United States, was born to a temperament of wintry rectitude. He…
By SAM BORDEN Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two of the most powerful figures in global soccer, were barred from…
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Four years after the United States Treasury and Justice Departments forced the closure…
Notorious terrorist was reportedly deemed a ‘ticking bomb’ by Israel and the West; rejected by Hezbollah, he planned attacks as…
India buys the Triumf, which can kill everything that’s not stealth within 155 miles India is set to buy five…
Foreign Affairs Although Algerians are lukewarm to the prospect of a managed succession, they are even less willing to…
Muslim Brotherhood review: statement by the Prime Minister First published: 17 December 2015 Statement by David Cameron on the findings of…
A real national commonwealth demands an authentic national narrative that recognizes the multiplicity of cultural, religious, and social foundations, but…
As various forces converge against the main rebel supply line in northern Syria, Russia’s wooing of the Kurds could make…
By Hussain Al-Qatari | AP December 11 KUWAIT CITY — A Kuwaiti sheikh who is a major powerbroker in the Olympics and…
ARON LUND On November 14, the International Syria Support Group, a gathering of nations meeting in Vienna, decided to work…
On Sunday evening, December 6, President Barack Obama attempted to assure Americans that he is applying the right array of…
Hassan Khomeini has made himself unpopular wuith hardliners by suggesting his grandfather’s revolution was hijacked Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran…
Following the Prisoner’s Sixth Surgery Arash Bahmani The news announcement that Mehdi Karoubi – a leader in the protests against…
By EMILY B. HAGER and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries…
‘Bare, Naked, Nude,’ a new exhibition recently opened at Istanbul’s Pera Museum, includes academic studies of 44 artists from different…
Nicholas Linn Egypt’s got plans for Libya — to eradicate the Islamists and set it under the firm, autocratic control…
With the growth of the Islamic State have come voices for the United States and Western countries to engage with…
Lifelong language study can change a person. It enriches one’s life, especially if it is a relatively difficult language requiring…
Of Turkey’s near-dozen neighbors, there is just one that Ankara really fears: Russia. This is rooted in history stretching back…