Far from being exceptions, botched American withdrawals have tended to be the rule in the broader Middle East. An…
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Pakistani efforts to exploit the Taliban victory in Afghanistan threaten to reinforce ultra-conservative inclinations in Pakistan itself, the world’s second-most…
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (center) in Qatar’s capital Doha on July 18, 2021. Islamabad has long fostered the fighters but…
On August 20, six days before the Kabul airport terrible attack, the Afghan Taliban said it had executed Abu Omar…
New York Times reports that the attack at Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility – for which Israel never took responsibility…
(The late Jalaluddin Haqqani, historical head of the Haqqani network) AMONG the many ironies of the US war in Afghanistan…
New President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration picks leave no doubt about the direction of his government Arash AziziArash Azizi is a…
Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary Commandant Massoud and commander in chief of the afghan resistance in Panjshir, transmitted this…
U.S. officials who visited Israel with CIA Director William Burns believe that the chances of Iran returning to the 2015…
To make UNIFIL more effective and prevent dangerous destabilization in the south, the Security Council should review the force’s mandate…
Hezbollah’s actions in the past year and a half have turned many Lebanese against the party. If Hezbollah believes…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas is culpable for the security…
How long do you keep investing in failure? How much effort does one put into reviving a corpse? When can…
Beirut’s deceptive narrative is part of a general Arab and Palestinian style Describing Israeli retaliation to Palestinian and Lebanese…
A former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs diagnoses the country’s incapacitated institutions and prescribes remedies for its…
by Benjamin Weinthal and Jonathan Spyer JERUSALEM — The State Department has opened an inquiry into an Israeli government report that Qatar’s monarchy…
(Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom at a 2003 meeting in Ankara with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister at the…
I know you pity us, but we can’t take it anymore… your pity. It is true that you come back…
The Hariri tribunal hasn’t led to a single arrest, so Washington should let it expire and help the Lebanese people…
What Happened? Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, Saad al-Hariri, has announced he would withdraw from the government-formation process, after trying unsuccessfully for nine months to put…
Since experiencing major upheaval and demands for change in 2019, the country has achieved real gains in its political transition,…
Iraqi mourners attend the funeral of a Hashd al-Shaabi fighter Monday following U.S. airstrikes on the Syrian-Iraqi border. By Ishaan…
Karim Sadjadpour analyzes the implications of the Iranian presidential election held on June 18. Karim Sadjadpour is a senior…
US President Joe Biden may have little appetite for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking but seems determined to prevent some third parties from…
Killed by Palestinian Authority for opposing its tyranny, Banat supported brutal Assad Arab intellectuals face a conundrum. They defend…
Hezbollah may accept a new government, but would be as pleased if the country’s social and political order crumbled. …
Although continued pressure on the country’s political elites is necessary, the U.S. government needs to find more immediate ways of…
Tunis, 2018 — Yours truly, third from left, and Husham al-Hashim, who was gunned down by Iran militias in Baghdad,…
BY ISABEL DEBRE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE – In this July 20, 2016 file photo, Kuwaiti Minister of Defense Sheikh Khalid al-Jarrah…
Hamas may not have realized it when firing its first salvo against Jerusalem, but the challenge of its rockets didn’t…
Foreign Minister Javad Zarif charms Western diplomats, while protecting the theocracy in Tehran. (Published by The Atlantic on MARCH 7,…
Disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic, measures taken to contain it and vaccine roll-out campaigns continues to be significant. Since our…
The main body of the following article was published by Middle East Transparent on April 2007, then reprinted on May…
The foreign minister had much to say about the IRGC branch’s political interference at home and close relations with Moscow,…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of…
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely revered military leader, Qassim Suleimani.…
I have tracked U.S.-Turkey ties since 2002. In the past, when a new president was elected after promising to recognize…
Iran International TV has gotten hold of an audio recording in which Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says he…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Muhammad Hejazi, deputy head of the Iranian Quds Force, is reported to have died of heart disease. However, a…
Natasha Turak@NATASHATURAK KEY POINTS “I assert that there has been no sincere and clear position with regards to neutrality from…
A Shared Nuclear Policy Is Better for All Sign in and save to read later Save to Pocket Print…
Washington’s conspicuous silence over the nuclear sabotage at Natanz no doubt stems from the fact that Israel has bought more…
In an interview, Frederic Hof recalls how Bashar al-Assad undercut the party’s position on the Shebaa Farms. Frederic Hof…
Gazeta.ru’s military correspondent Mikhail Khodarenok responds to an analysis by Panagiotis Nastos in the Greek news agency Pentapostagma. Nastos claimed…
Whoever winds up spearheading the reconstruction effort, Washington should stay on top of them to ensure that international prerequisites for…
In an interview, Ray Takeyh discusses his recent book on the reign of the late Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ray…
Cardinal Bechara Rai, Maronite patriarch, addresses thousands of Lebanese at Bkerke, north of Beirut, Feb. 27, 2021, as Lebanon teeters…
In Iran’s conservative Islamic society, prostitution is illegal, immoral, and rarely discussed. But in an investigative documentary by RFE/RL’s Radio…
On March 15, 2021, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with the head of the Hizbullah parliamentary…
Israel election results: Letting Gantz form Israel’s next government would be poetic justice As a state and as a…