The Islamic State has long relied on several key factors in making its case for Muslim hearts and minds. For…
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Nadav Pollak and Hanin Ghaddar How has Hezbollah avoided a catastrophic quagmire in Syria and even exploited its campaign…
As was recently reported, a new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s State Department have been obtained by Judicial Watch. One…
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The U.S. State Department says Riyadh can buy 153 Abrams tanks, 20 of which will replace ones…
Kamal Salibi, one of the Arab world’s foremost contemporary historians, kicked up a storm when he concluded in a 1985…
Hygiene was a disaster, patriotism was out of control — and doping involved animal testicles and black magic. DAVID…
ORAN, Algeria — Future writing project: a topography of paradise in the medieval Muslim imagination. But not only medieval, for…
In 1968, Israel’s first prime minister gave a candid interview to an Israeli-British film crew producing a documentary about his…
Recently, a series of high-profile comments by Western politicians on aspects of Islam have come under public scrutiny. These comments…
Turkish coup attempt raises alarms about nuclear weapons deployed overseas LYDIA DENNETT After the recent military coup attempt in Turkey,…
The coup attempted in Turkey this past weekend against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mattered for Russia, and for Russian President Vladimir…
The head of Italian intelligence paid a secret visit to Syria earlier this month, a week after his Syrian counterpart…
The nuclear deal and the negotiations leading up to it have been a significant source of factional confrontation inside Iran…
Guarantees Crucial Rights, but Gaps Remain (Beirut) – Kuwaiti legislators’ adoption on June 24, 2015, of a new law giving…
HSBC laundered money for criminals and thugs. with HSBC whistleblower Everett Stern. His work helped reveal the web of corruption…
Charles Carroll of Maryland was the lone Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, and is today seen as a…
The concepts of exile and refuge are ancient ones existing across many civilizations and cultures. The Ottoman Empire and other…
London: This was not a referendum about 1973 – the year when Britain entered the European Union (EU). Nor was…
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, JULIET MACUR and IAN AUSTEN When Darya Pishchalnikova, above, a discus thrower, told the World Anti-Doping…
Image from May 2016 ISIS video in support of ISIS Sinai Wilayah The social media phenomenon that is the…
Mustafa Bedreddine has reportedly been killed by an Israeli warplane near Damascus. ALEX ROWELL To close friends, he is “Dhu…
How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. By DAVID SAMUELS Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for…
There was a time when ‘Israeli independence’ was the chief focus of the left’s leaders, Jews and Arabs alike. …
BY PETER SCHWARTZSTEIN / QUARTZ No matter where you turn when covering ISIL’s two years of terror in Iraq and Syria, one…
One civil court’s ruling has created an important precedent in a country where there is a dual justice system in…
With the problem of power outages seemingly unsolvable, Palestinians have begun adopting solar technology, with more and more public institutions…
A view of Tiran island from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. (AFP/Getty Images) By Ruth Eglash JERUSALEM…
Iranian missile tests highlight regional need for upgraded air-defense systems Tests by Iran last month of long-range ballistic missiles, reportedly…
Out-of-date Iranian banking practices and rank deception have made international banks leery of risking their reputations. On March 22, Supreme…
BY PATRICK TUCKER Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get there, which is no easy…
In 2015, Alain Grignard said there were radicals the police didn’t know about David Axe Suicide bombers struck an airport…
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of the country’s multiple sharpening fault lines that are exploding into political violence on…
Reuters A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not be harmed by the winding…
Patrick Megahan Precision guided munitions (PGMs) encompass a growing range of bombs and missiles designed to destroy targets on land,…
Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly A still from a video released by Dira al-Watan (Nation Shield), shows…
For such zones to succeed, they must be backed with militarily enforced no-fly zones and a persuasive response to Moscow’s…
By George Soroka In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington memorably bemoaned that, whereas in the West there has historically…
With ample Russian and Iranian help, regime forces have cut the rebels’ main lifeline in the north, and they will…
Yaakov Lappin, Tel Aviv – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly The IDF believes that the Russian military presence in Syria is…
This investigation is a result of leads developed during the investigation into the Lebanese Canadian Bank. FEB 01 (WASHINGTON)…
The leader of the Shi’ite sector in Lebanon, Musa al-Sadr, mysteriously disappeared in Libya in the 1970s. A new book…
KUWAIT, Jan 21 (KUNA) — The Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) has failed to fulfil its “assigned role” to forestall a…
The immediate price of such actions may be the further alienation of an important component of Saudi Arabia: its Shiite…
France is trying to catch up on Prime Minister’s Valls blunder on a TV show last Saturday. PM Valls, apparently…
Said Seraj Mirdamadi has been imprisoned in Iran since May 2014 on charges of threatening national security and propagandizing against…
Former foreign minister Jean Ping will officially announce his candidacy for the presidential election of Gabon. Sources said Mr. Ping…
Imam Moussa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, in the 1970s. Mr. Sadr, who lived in Lebanon and became an ardent…
By Ali AlAhmed Washington DC – Saudi King Salman Al-Saud plans to abdicate his throne and install his son Mohammed…
It would be a great loss- human, cultural, scientific, and religious- for Europe (France in particular) if it were to…
Having a permanent military foothold in the Gulf will put Turkey in an elite group of powers, but more presence…