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Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and Space imagery taken on 27…
Jean-Pierre Filiu, historian and professor at Science Po (Paris), was asked by the Journal du Dimanche to comment the fall…
“Dark Clouds Over Turkey” (full text) Monday 25 May 2015 Hopefully, the Turks shall soon vote their president out…
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one…
The group will no doubt continue helping the Assad regime hang on, but the war’s heavy attrition, Syria’s demographic realities,…
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it published from the Edward Snowden…
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle East Transparent the following explanation…
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on 12 May 2015.…
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali Mamlouk, the head of Syria’s…
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing of the map of…
They reject his attempts to reassure them over the Iran nuclear deal. The promise of a successful nuclear deal with…
The White House’s bottom line for Camp David is to limit public condemnation of the emerging deal with Iran, but…
One of the prime minister’s remarks suggests that a more fundamental dispute may be brewing between U.S. and Israeli intelligence…
In all likelihood, Khamenei’s potentially imminent successor will be even more of a hardliner, and he could renege on a…
Salman Masalha New Arab city will perpetuate inequality We should oppose the construction of a new Arab city on principle.…
The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue speaks to Vatican Radio about the barbaric killing in Pakistan: “How…
By revealing all the offers that Iran has rejected, Washington could block Tehran’s potential Plan B, which will likely involve…
Given its recent track record of targeting Israelis, Hezbollah’s decision to take public responsibility for a new border attack likely…
Rebels capture reluctant Afghans in Aleppo Jassem Al Salami Wednesday 22 October 2014 “Come out, you donkey!” the Syrian…
A rare poll conducted last month in three Gulf Cooperation Council states demonstrates decisive rejection of ISIS and a surprisingly…
The moderate rebel force currently envisioned by Washington would take far too long to arrive on the battlefield and could…
How does Islamic State think? How do its followers see the world? SPIEGEL ONLINE met up with an Islamic State…
Of the 300 Hindu temples that Pakistan inherited in 1947 atthe time of partition, hardly three dozen have managed to…
At first sight – Prof Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and currently the ameer of the…
A new study commissioned by Germany’s Interior Ministry warns of a growing threat from the radicalization of Muslims in the…
The Islamic revolution could not be televised in Pakistan for a simple reason. It never happened. Despite predictions by two…
These have been traumatic weeks for the White House, as its strategy of holding the fort on Iraq is turning…
By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 20, 2007; A01 PEORIA, Ill. — The 37-year-old computer science student…
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over…
July 14 was the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in France. A day later, last Sunday, French Foreign…
(New York, July 18, 2007) – After a Saudi court forced a married couple to divorce in response to a…
St Joseph University Faculty of Religious Sciences Center for Study, Documentation and Research on Arab Christians The role of Arab…
It appears that the Israeli dilemma of whether Hezbollah emerged from the Second Lebanon War strengthened or weakened has been…
Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden…
A new National Intelligence Estimate raises concerns that the terrorist group is growing stronger. WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek July 11, 2007…
It says something that one year after the summer 2006 war, we’re not sure whether to celebrate Hizbullah’s “divine victory”…
By JOHN F. BURNS and ALISSA J. RUBIN BAGHDAD, July 9 — As the Senate prepares to begin a new…
In the Sa’ada region of North Yemen, confrontations between government forces and the Believing Youth resumed in January 2007. The…
Professor ALAN JOHNSON’s DEMOKRATIYA (based at Edge Hill University)is a must for readers of Middle East Transparent. Add it to…
The young man in shorts who was waiting for the elevator in the General Staff building recently looked, at first…
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s…
Some members of the ruling family reportedly back hard-line Sunni groups; others advise helping disenfranchised Shiites. July 7, 2007 MANAMA,…
In his recent survey, Professor Purnendra Jain, head of Asian Studies at Australia’s Adelaide University, holds that many Asian countries…
It is sometimes forgotten that the content of history, the business of the historian, is the past, not the future.…
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 6 — Minutes before Islamic militants and government troops began killing each other in northern Lebanon six…
In his remarkable book, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore does a service by focusing on…