Iranian academic Mohsen Renani says, “Iran’s government is unable to reform itself” to adapt to the needs of a modern…
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By Vazha Tavberidze Print Political consultant Abbas Gallyamov used to be one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speechwriters.…
Iran’s hardliner Paydari Party has dismissed long-time conservative figure Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel’s leadership of an umbrella group for a handshake with…
All wars feature their own narratives. These are the ways that belligerents seek to portray themselves to outsiders and to…
(Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s special representative in clerical affairs) A senior Iranian cleric says around 50,000 of…
A recent essay touting a “one-state” approach to Israel-Palestinian issues is more about eliminating the world’s only Jewish state than…
Hezbollah finds itself near another verge today, that of remaining relevant in the evolving Lebanese state. Hezbollah’s military show of…
(Abolqassem Delfi, former senior foreign ministry official and ambassador to France) * A former Iranian diplomat says Tehran has gained…
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, US President Nixon, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the Oval office on November…
The Lebanese Hezbollah militant group held a rare demonstration of the group’s fighting power this week in an apparent attempt…
(An unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 1:13 a.m. Pacific Time, Oct. 2, 2019,…
(A clay model from Mesopotamia, dated ∼1800 BCE, shows a couple kissing. The original is kept at the British Museum.)…
Will this week’s Arab summit breath new life into a Saudi-Syrian understanding over Lebanon? One politician who will…
Istanbul- Recent Polls Suggest Erdogan’s Imminent Defeat in the First Round of Elections According to the projections of the…
A former Iranian diplomat says Tehran may have concluded that it should replace idealism with pragmatism to end the long-standing…
(Damage in Holon where three were injured by a rocket attack from Gaza. Winning decisively for Israel requires disarming Hamas…
Exactly one hundred years after the birth of the Soviet Union on December 30, 1922, we could well be witnessing…
Who Disbanded Iraq’s Army and De-Baathified Its Bureaucracy? Print this article Send by email Share on Twitter Share on…
Iraqis find themselves under censorship and tyranny of Islamist Iran There is one country in the world that celebrates the…
Many years ago, a group of Armenian students came to me to ask me to give a public lecture at…
In what was seen as an escalation by the Sudanese regular armed forces (SAF), units belonging to the rival Rapid…
BY JAY LOSCHKY STORY HIGHLIGHTS Saudi Arabia more popular in all 13 Muslim-majority countries surveyed Iran deeply unpopular everywhere except…
Watch a special conversation about the murder of Lebanese activist and writer Lokman Slim between veteran Lebanese journalist Hanin Ghaddar…
In May 2021, The Economist magazine declared Taiwan to be the most dangerous place in the world. That could seem…
Editor’s Note:This article is drawn from the inaugural James N. Mattis Lecture at the American Academy in Berlin, delivered by…
ROME – By the time he marked a decade at the pinnacle of power, it was clear that under this…
Brief Analysis In a climate where many clerics are unhappy about their situation and some are losing faith in the…
Is the leadership in Iran trying to change course or are we witnessing a new tactic? The signals coming…
UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Dr. Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, speaks during CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston, Texas on…
Having been to the terrible Auschwitz camp to bear witness to the sufferings of the Jewish people, I salute the…
Lawyers had thought Lebanese judiciary’s move to end its housing loans investigation would jeopardise principality’s case Monaco is continuing…
it’s being said that Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin, and the Vatican’s foreign minister, Archbishop Gallagher, feel uncomfortable with the…
(Left: Baruch Goldstein (Source: Falafel Café). Right: Photos from the Yom Kippur War, known to the Arabs as the Ramadhan…
What Happened? In a speech on Monday, Hezbollah’s secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, for the first time publicly declared his support for…
A group of Syrian and Lebanese intellectuals and politicians have released a joint statement denouncing the efforts of certain Arab…
In February 2022, when the war in Ukraine erupted, retired Russian Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov voiced his extreme misgivings. He claimed…
The vow of “never again” taken by virtually all nations after the Second World War remains unfulfilled. I…
Western countries have finally approved deliveries of dozens of Abrams, Leopard 2 and Challenger tanks to Ukraine. Deliveries of combat…
Russian drone manufacturer, established in same city as visited by Iranian drone delegation, also advertises Western drone components …
For the past five months of unrest, the largest Sunni Mosque in Iran, the Grand Makki Mosque – founded as…
A prominent Iranian economist in a letter meant to reach Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that the Islamic Republic…
( J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Los Alamos Laboratory where the atomic bomb was designed, and Manhattan Project director…
(Photo: The man in a white robe waving to the crowd is late Saudi King Faisal on his visit to…
Taliban bans on women’s education and employment by foreign aid organisations operating in Afghanistan are having unintended consequences. The bans…
A recent survey of Iranian public opinion suggests that the lack of confidence in a Middle Eastern regime is starkest…
(Note: This piece was written before the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on January 27.) “I expect we’ll see an…
The regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin is living on borrowed time. The tide of history is turning, and everything…
Hussein el-Husseini, who passed away yesterday at the age of 85, was a Lebanese nationalist and champion of a Lebanese…
The party is facing challenges in Lebanon and the region, but has limited options for dealing with them. …
(Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk) ROME – Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic…