A candlelit vigil in Tel Aviv for those killed or taken hostage by Hamas earlier this month We have battled…
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Rome/Shaffaf– In Rome to attend the World Food Forum, Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid reiterated his request, declined…
(Israeli students at Tel Aviv University hold Palestinian and Israeli flags while protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government on…
Today, I watched an excellent and balanced discussion on CNN, hosted by one of its most prominent anchors, Christiane Amanpour,…
The war triggered by Hamas’ barbaric attacks will be the first zero-sum conflict in the Arab-Israeli arena since 1948. …
Burak Bekdil, 1966-2023. (Image source: BESA Center video screenshot) All of us at Gatestone are so immensely saddened by the…
Lucy Aharish’s marriage to Tzachi Halevy, which drew the seed purists from their hideouts, exposed the simple truth about…
If the war over Gaza spreads to Lebanon, would a regional conflict become inescapable? Virtually all the major parties involved…
Since the start of the new war sparked by the “Hamas invasion” from “Gaza” (liberated from “Occupation” in 2005) towards…
There is still a slim chance of peace if wiser counsels prevail and other major powers intervene in a coalition…
The last few days have been amongst the most difficult of my life, facing a reality I thought I could…
Hamas’ operation against Israel on October 7 was a major step in the Iranian effort to take control of the…
SummarNorthwestern Syria is being consolidated into an effective canton protected and sustained by—and dependent on—Türkiye. Given the lack of prospects…
The following appeal is from the “Development Center for Studies and Research” in the city of Sidon, the capital of…
Op-Ed Geographer and Arab world specialist Ali Bensaad attributes the deteriorating condition of the dams and the anarchic urbanization…
There is a long-suffering people in Sudan, they live on a rugged mountain in the middle of Darfur. Theirs is…
The ASC President H.E. Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah received a letter of congratulation from His Highness Deputy Amir and the Crown…
(Druze protesting in Syria.) The most immediate reason for the outbreak of protests in mostly Druze areas is Assad’s…
(Nasrallah (center) with Al-‘Arouri (right) and Al-Nakhaleh (Image: almanar.com.lb, hamas.ps, jehad.ps, September 2, 2023) * Lately there have been growing…
The Netanyahu government is intent on obtaining unlimited power to institute a radical revolution in Israel. Only the Supreme Court…
(Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (L) in Moscow, Russia on July 05, 2023)…
The Wagner mercenary boss was counting on solidarity from senior army officers, and since he came close to reaching Moscow…
Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system with two 9M723K5 missile. The Iskander system is reported to be capable of firing ballistic…
By N. Mozes* Introduction Although it has been five years since the Islamic State (ISIS) was defeated in…
Saudi Arabia’s stunning sports acquisition blitz, alongside Qatari and Emirati European club purchases, may reshape the beautiful game, just not…
Given the military’s behavior during a recent confrontation and the spike in Christian anger toward Hezbollah, Washington should consider…
BY LAURA SILVER AND SARAH AUSTIN Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Israel in recent weeks over a controversial judicial overhaul spearheaded by…
20 июля 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s coup attempt in June left everyone in the world stunned – except Russian intelligence officials,…
The Lebanese Forces have the largest Christian bloc in parliament, but you wouldn’t know that from their policy of splendid…
Ongoing fighting in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp may be part of a plan to weaken Fatah and undermine normalization…
He presided over economic collapse in Lebanon In most countries, a 95% drop in the currency would be a firing…
In a video that has gone viral on Iranian social media this week, well-known economist Mohsen Renani says the clerical…
The person who suffered most of all from Prigozhin’s uprising was Putin. However confident the Russian president may feel in…
For the hundreds of thousands of Israeli democracy defenders who tried to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial coup on…
In his May 16, 2023 column in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, liberal Kuwaiti journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf harshly criticized the curricula…
Current Iraqi rage against the burning of a Quran in Sweden and in Denmark violates both liberty and Islamic teachings — and shows that freedom…
A U.S.-sanctioned, Iran-backed militia leader aims to sideline the country’s Chaldean Patriarch and take over billions of dollars’ worth of…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s two key appointments are new foreign minister and former intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan; and the…
A curious feature (or maybe a bug) of the war in Ukraine has been the limited use of airpower on…
All as usual for my arrival, once more, at the Teheran Imam Khomeini Airport, or almost! As always, security measures…
Iran’s judiciary chief is pushing to override parliamentary approval on the upcoming hijab bill. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei says there is…
(US State Secretary Antony J. Blinken meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on June…
(A map from Kuwait’s oil ministry showing the Arash/Durra (Dorra) oil and gas field near the tip of the Persian…
His System of rule simply can’t go on much longer ` The Scarlet Sails festival is one of Russia’s…
The country was in a frenzy last week due to the protest by Druze in the Golan Heights against the…
Members of the Wagner Group look from a military vehicle with the sign “Brother” in Rostov-on-Don late on Saturday. (Photo…
A former senior intelligence official and a founder of the ministry of intelligence, says Iran was once a semi-democracy but…
The Russian president was forced to make peace with Yevgeny Prigozhin, whom he described as a ‘traitor,’ in a Russia…