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(Originally published by Shaffaf and the Beirut Daily Star on March 17, 2007. A news article by the Associated Press…
(Undated picture of Enzo Ferrari posing with faulty parts in his “error museum” displayed at an exhibit in Modena, Italy…
The Swiss branch of Russia’s Sberbank has been sold to the Geneva-based m3 Groupe Holding company, freeing the bank from…
(Giampaolo Silvestri, secretary general of the AVSI Foundation (L), Cardinal Mario Zenari, Vatican envoy in Syria, and Franciscan Father Fady…
A lot is happening in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate, but Damascus still remains the dominant outside actor. The southern Syrian…
The Iranian occupation of Lebanon will recede and disappear, no doubt, and Lebanon will regain its independence and sovereignty over…
In light of Tehran’s concerted efforts to reverse last year’s electoral setback, it has become too risky to let Baghdad’s…
The Russian leadership, while refraining from mass mobilization has sought to portray the war in Ukraine as an existential struggle…
Istanbul- Salman Rushdie, the writer of Satanic Verses, a novel that ignited outrage among some religious circles, who considered its…
Whether or not Tehran is proven to be involved, the incident holds significant implications for the regime’s international diplomacy and…
Istanbul-Shaffaf As Ankara signaled new dialogue with Assad regime following the Sochi summit of Erdogan and Putin; Former Turkish FM…
After President Erdogan’s joint intelligence statement last week and Pro-Govt media reports of a possible Assad-Erdogan phone call, Turkish Foreign…
While the negotiations on the maritime border are progressing, the UN reports increasing aggression from the Iran-backed organization, which managed…
President Joe Biden was not wrong when he declared that “justice has been served” with the killing of Al Qaeda leader…
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the new head of the Italian bishops conference, smiles during a press conference in Rome, Friday, May…
The effort to block Iran from turning into a nuclear power is at its lowest ebb ever, apparently headed for…
While the facts exposed by Jerusalem Post are exact, Lebanese Oppositon sources, including METransparent, believe the whole episode was a…
A memorial is pictured near a train car symbolizing the Drancy camp, at the Shoah memorial Tuesday, July 12, 2022…
(Erdogan surrounded by supporters and guards after landing Istanbul Ataturk Airport in the morning of the coup d’etat) The…
President Biden has a powerful moral imperative for ending his feud with the crown prince: to ensure that the kingdom’s…
Negotiations between Finland and countries and the NATO Alliance were concluded in Brussels on July 4. On July 5, the…
It seems every candidate to succeed as the leader of Britain’s ‘party for business’ is a ‘self-made multi-millionaire’ with a…
Iran, through Hezbollah, has invited itself into Lebanon’s negotiations with Israel over offshore gas fields. After Hezbollah flew drones over…
Shaffaf Exclusive from Istanbul He might be the second Abraham that “all” peoples of Middle East adored most in…
President Biden has a powerful moral imperative for ending his feud with the crown prince: to ensure that the kingdom’s…
After a series of damaging failures, a senior Iranian intelligence official lost his job and a Revolutionary Guards general was…
Ukraine’s success in contesting the skies turns the West’s airpower paradigm on its head — it offers an alternative vision…
At this point, even if the “interim” force was somehow able and willing to implement its mandate in southern Lebanon,…
Watching the Ukraine conflict, Middle Eastern leaders see the Russian president has approached matters in the same way as they…
Interview by Vazha Tavberidze Print A polyglot American born to Jewish parents in World War II Romania and…
US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement on transferring nuclear…
Two countries that have long clashed are tempting fate with escalations that could soon spiral well beyond their borders. …
A number of state buildings in Ankara these days have an uninvited guest: main opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. 73…
There is no consensus on Lebanon’s next president, and the country is likely to soon enter a long period of…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — His appeals for an Orthodox Easter truce in Ukraine went unheeded. His planned meeting with the…
Putin’s genocidal war on Ukraine may have less to do with empire and far more to do with profits. Enormous profits.…
Opinion: The successful assassination, attributed to Mossad, of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayar reveals yet again how fragile the Iranian regime…
These are heady days for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. With King Salman home after a week in…
(A launch of the Russian Iskander-M, which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead, at the Kapustin Yar proving ground in…
Qatar is a great supporter of major extremist Islamic organizations and ceaselessly acts against Israel on the regional and international…
In a blog post titled “Redeployment” the popular blogger Anatoly Nesmiyan aka El-Murid takes note of reports that Russia is redeploying…
The “National Council to End the Iranian Occupation of Lebanon” issued the following appeal on the occasion of the coming…
The real danger lies not only in denying that the Holocaust took place, but, worse, in rewriting history, especially by…
Israel has been drawing its own conclusions from Putin’s failure in Ukraine: From the resurgence of large-scale wars to the…
A posthumously published memoir by Fouad Ajami shows that the author never truly broke with Lebanon. The recent publication of Fouad Ajami’s…
Hamas, with Hezbollah’s help, is building up a military presence in Lebanon, whose ultimate consequences could be devastating. During…
Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder, Israel’s outgoing commander of the 91st Galilee Division, adds however that as the Lebanese crisis deepens,…
(Siegfried Hecker (second from right) visits the secret Russian nuclear city of Sarov in February 1992.) One of the…
In an interview, Karim Sadjadpour discusses Iran’s grand strategy, the Vienna nuclear negotiations, and more. Karim Sadjadpour is a senior…