The group will no doubt continue helping the Assad regime hang on, but the war’s heavy attrition, Syria’s demographic realities,…
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This weekend, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech about the Lebanese Shiite militia’s impending victory in the Syrian border…
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it published from the Edward Snowden…
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…
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on 12 May 2015.…
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — More than a month of relentless airstrikes by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia has inflicted…
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle East Transparent the following explanation…
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent redrawing of the map of the…
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…
With a litany of unproved claims, veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has revived discussion about the circumstances in which al…
Another commercial vessel has been fired on by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf, just weeks after Iranian naval forces…
The presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, may be on a mountaintop, but the May 14 talks there between President…
The promise of a successful nuclear deal with Iran is that it will stop nuclear proliferation, moderate Tehran’s behavior, make…
President Barack Obama’s meeting with leaders from the Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David next week is likely to be…
Ali Mamlouk was accused of holding secret talks with countries backing rebel groups By Ruth Sherlock, and Carol Malouf in…
The high-level summit next week with leaders of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar,…
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange,…
This article is followed by a response by Andrew F. March, along with Michael Walzer’s reply. To read the exchange,…
Amid a flurry of speculative news stories about what Washington can offer to placate Gulf concerns about the putative nuclear…
On May 1, two days after making radical changes in the kingdom’s royal succession order and senior government posts, Riyadh…
by KEVIN KNODELL On April 20, a representative of one of America’s strongest Middle East allies met with Pres. Barack…
The conduct toward Iran of the world powers, especially the United States, is not surprising: Peace in the Middle East…
By Liz Sly April BEIRUT — A surge of rebel gains in Syria is overturning long-held assumptions about the durability…
Nicholas Blanford, Beirut – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Lebanon’s militant Shia group, Hizbullah, has constructed an airstrip in the northern…
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV RIYADH—Watching Saudi Arabia spend hundreds of billions of dollars on sophisticated weapons in the past decade, many…
Just days after releasing the Iran framework, Secretary of State John F. Kerry reaffirmed that the United States would insist…
By Christoph Reuter Aloof. Polite. Cajoling. Extremely attentive. Restrained. Dishonest. Inscrutable. Malicious. The rebels from northern Syria, remembering encounters with…
Sheikh Ahmed Al-Fahad Al-Sabah Presidential elections and tournament hosting in the world of soccer appear to be seldom won on…
Jeremy Binnie, London and Sean O’Connor, Indianapolis – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly Airbus Defence and Space imagery taken on 27…
American policy in the Middle East provides much fodder for the lovers of conspiracy theories. The actions of the United…
On March 31, Lebanese prime minister Tammam Salam was in Kuwait attending a UN humanitarian relief conference for Syria, seeking…
Dr. Kamal Yazigi Those who support terrorism and try to cover up its crimes would have us believe that terrorism…
Pakistani Shiite Muslims protesting a suicide bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in Peshawar with portraits of the victims, February…
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (centre L), U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (centre R) and European Union High Representative…
PF_15.04.02_Projections_promo640x320 The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size…
A rebel fighter shoulders a weapon as he moves with others towards their positions in the Selma region of the…
Police action in Awamiyah in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province A soccer pitch in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, home to…
The most obvious point about the Iranian government’s response to the just-released nuclear framework is that Tehran is not treating…
This is an edited version of a presentation delivered to The Washington Institute’s Policy Forum on Wednesday, April 1, 2015,…
It may have gone into overtime, but President Obama and Secretary Kerry have now announced the parameters for a comprehensive…
On March 31, senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi told state television that “there will be no agreement without sanctions…
I’m sitting in a busy Shoreditch café on a Wednesday lunchtime. It’s my first time here and I’m immediately intrigued…
Jewish men at the Congregation Ahaba ve Ahava in Cairo, late 1940s. This synagogue was disbanded when Jews left Egypt,…
Ongoing developments in the Gulf have dramatically underscored the disintegration of the “Yemen Model” championed by President Obama last year,…
On March 26, Saudi Arabia announced the beginning of Operation Decisive Storm, the pan-Arab military operation to halt the advance…