By N. Mozes* Introduction Although it has been five years since the Islamic State (ISIS) was defeated in…
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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…
Kasparov tells Kyiv Post: “Putin was right by invoking 1917 [in his TV address on June 24]. This is clearly a 1917…
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (R) while attending for speaking with media with his Saudi counterpart Faisal Bin Farhan,…
Christians in Lebanon feel under existential threat, but more isolation would only lead to their ruin. Last week,…
Iranian academic Mohsen Renani says, “Iran’s government is unable to reform itself” to adapt to the needs of a modern…
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…