By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over…
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July 14 was the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille in France. A day later, last Sunday, French Foreign…
(New York, July 18, 2007) – After a Saudi court forced a married couple to divorce in response to a…
St Joseph University Faculty of Religious Sciences Center for Study, Documentation and Research on Arab Christians The role of Arab…
It appears that the Israeli dilemma of whether Hezbollah emerged from the Second Lebanon War strengthened or weakened has been…
Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden…
A new National Intelligence Estimate raises concerns that the terrorist group is growing stronger. WEB EXCLUSIVE Newsweek July 11, 2007…
It says something that one year after the summer 2006 war, we’re not sure whether to celebrate Hizbullah’s “divine victory”…
By JOHN F. BURNS and ALISSA J. RUBIN BAGHDAD, July 9 — As the Senate prepares to begin a new…
In the Sa’ada region of North Yemen, confrontations between government forces and the Believing Youth resumed in January 2007. The…
Professor ALAN JOHNSON’s DEMOKRATIYA (based at Edge Hill University)is a must for readers of Middle East Transparent. Add it to…
The young man in shorts who was waiting for the elevator in the General Staff building recently looked, at first…
WASHINGTON, July 7 — A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s…
Some members of the ruling family reportedly back hard-line Sunni groups; others advise helping disenfranchised Shiites. July 7, 2007 MANAMA,…
In his recent survey, Professor Purnendra Jain, head of Asian Studies at Australia’s Adelaide University, holds that many Asian countries…
It is sometimes forgotten that the content of history, the business of the historian, is the past, not the future.…
BEIRUT, Lebanon, July 6 — Minutes before Islamic militants and government troops began killing each other in northern Lebanon six…
In his remarkable book, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Simon Sebag Montefiore does a service by focusing on…
After the attack against a Spanish patrol two Sundays ago, Spain’s military began cooperating with Hizbullah in the investigation to…
Reuters – 03 July, 2007– A senior Saudi royal ruled out direct elections to Saudi Arabia’s unelected parliament in comments…
A screen shot of a blocked website in Iran (RFE/RL) The following is a must read for our Arab readers.…
As the Imam mentioned, half a century has passed since one of our great leaders welcomed the Islamic Center into…
Core members of Iran’s council of Economic governance – The President, butcher and the tomato selle “For example, there is…
Recently, the Indonesian government was praised highly by the United States and neighbouring countries, including Australia, for its excellent efforts…
International Solidarity Network 26 June 2007 His Majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King…
For those following events in South Lebanon, the deadly attack on Sunday against soldiers of the Spanish contingent of UNIFIL…
Secretary / Special Rapporteur on violence against women Higher Commissionaire of Human Rights Geneva, Switzerland 25 June 2007 Kindest regards…
The Sa’ada war in northern Yemen may be coming to a close. The Yemeni government announced on June 15 that…
An Iraqi special tribunal yesterday sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin, known as ”Chemical Ali” to death for the destruction of thousands…
(Image: A police officer forced a young man whose clothes were deemed un-Islamic to suck on a plastic container Iranians…
Many Lebanese, particularly in the majority camp, have been preoccupied with the court being set up to try suspects in…
A friend of mine, a Lebanese journalist, tells the following story: Three years ago, when his country was under Syrian…
The Failed States Index 2007 There are 177 states included in the 2007 index, compared to 148 in 2006 and…
RAFAH, Egypt, June 17 — The Hamas military takeover of Gaza last week was partly fueled by caches of weapons…
The Sudanese government has agreed to the deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force to Darfur, a move facilitated…
The Hamas coup in Gaza was directed by a foreign al-Qaeda commando, according to the one of the highest-ranking intelligence…
A good study from the CIA’s website (Studies in Intelligence). At least one point was news to us, namely that…
Last month, US-based Afghan physician Khaled Hosseini released his second novel, A Thousnd Splendid Suns. Like in his first novel,…
Yesterday’s car bombing in Beirut, which killed Future Party parliamentarian Walid Eido, underscores the Syrian-backed multifront campaign to undermine stability…
Negotiations to create a new national-unity government have hit a brick wall, and that’s a relief. The opposition’s conditions for…
In his 2007 essay What’s Left?, Nick Cohen wonders how it is that many on the political left have lost…
CAIRO, June 11 — First came the breast-feeding fatwa. It declared that the Islamic restriction on unmarried men and women…