WASHINGTON, March 14 — The Bush administration, which six months ago issued a series of political goals for the Iraqi…
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World Defense Review columnist Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an…
London: Many Pakistanis have reasons not to feel envious of the role of most of the higher judges and the…
Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Dear Ms. Arbour, I still remember our meeting in May 2005,…
The Daily Star Two Tuesdays ago, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt spent 35 minutes with the president of the…
Add Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht to the list of dignitaries who have left Damascus biting their fists in…
After the Damascus Spring Shortly after I arrived in Damascus last June, Amr Nazir Salem, the minister of telecommunications and…
Palestinian Intellectuals in the West Bank are protesting Hamas government decision to withdraw from schools a book on Palestinian folkore.…
A. Mahjar Barducci The Mecca agreement is not just a starting point for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.…
The Saudi Leadership must feel satisfied at the Iranian president’s visit to Riyad yesterday. Though the outcome is still vague,…
According to the AFP, Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists rallying outside a Tehran court…
It’s become a habit to greet whatever journalist Seymour Hersh writes with reverence. However, after his ludicrous claim last summer…
London: As Pakistan inches painstakingly on to complete its sixtieth year of existence the prospects of its future survival remain…
TEHRAN, Feb. 26 — A group of Iranian academics, writers and artists has denounced the Holocaust conference held in Tehran…
SPIEGEL ONLINE World Press Photo Mix-Up The World Press Photo of the Year 2006 shows upscale young Lebanese men and…
The strange logic of Taliben or Janjaweeds of killing their own if they dont get hold of their enemy defies…
Pierre Akel While Lebanon’s ongoing crisis has enjoyed prominent media coverage all over the world, no one seemed to notice…
Unlike Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, which has been receiving extensive media coverage as a result of its uprising against…
In a column recently I had expressed apprehensions that Pakistan rendered into a no-man’s land and an epicentre of international…
As the world community ponders reluctantly what to do with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the mullah regime is facing a little-noticed…
WASHINGTON, The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top leaders of Al…
By Wieland Wagner SPIEGEL ONLINE – China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the…
China is sending more troops to the mostly Muslim province of Xinjiang in the far west of the country. Concerns…
The 1978 work put the fear of God into any Western scholar who dared to discuss Islam, Muslims, or Arabs…
FROM WORLD DEFENSE REVIEW Published 22 Feb 07 World Defense Review columnist Violence, Islamism, and Terror in the Sahel Earlier…
Earlier this week, two statements neatly summarized the crisis in Lebanon. The first came from the EU’s representative in Beirut,…
Extra, extra, read all about it: The Saudi-Jewish entente is here. The Saudis are rolling out a charm offensive and…
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over…
The president is nippy and abrasive. This is what all those who have worked closely with him during his 2-month…
While the world is busy watching the developing crises in the Middle East, Morocco is independently moving toward modernization, but…
Recently, from his perch at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, Germany’s former foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, wrote a commentary warning…
Poverty is not a shame. The shame is to deny its existence and to do nothing to combat it. Bearing…
On the second anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the United States reaffirms its support for…
Problems on hold Over the past 15 months, since the November 2005 legislative elections, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) maintained a…
SAUDI ARABIA’S WORLD The Saudi Arabia which German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit this weekend sees itself as a force…
In March 2005, Samir Kassir wrote a column titled, “Beirut, the springtime of the Arabs.” Martyrs Square was then awash…
She is a single mother of two, a well known Saudi journalist, and a women activist. And she decided to…
March 15, 2005 The Bush Administration’s policy of “constructive instability” in the Middle East is facing a critical juncture in…
The other day I wrote—- ”The role of religion and priest in society has a direct bearing on the rate…
January 25, 2007 After being held in prisoner for 15 years for a remark he made as a young boy,…
Arab Allies in Region Feeling Pressure DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Kuwait rarely rebuffs its ally, the United States, partly…
Some two years ago Saudi clerics issued fatwas forbidding Muslims to play soccer unless its rules were replaced by “Islamic…
So today is a “day of change,” to quote Suleiman Franjieh. He could be right. That’s because, as of tomorrow,…
BINT JBAIL, Lebanon, Jan. 16 — In August, Mohammed al-Seyed watched with some pride as tractors driven by Hezbollah men…
Support Builds for Libyan Dissident Human rights activists and Western diplomats are increasingly concerned about the welfare of Fathi al-Jahmi,…
“ World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, with holes on his socks, is seen as he leaves from the Ottoman era…