Problems on hold A malicious ploy that has become all-too-familiar in case of usurping land in Egypt is for the usurper to claim that the land…
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By DAVID S. CLOUD WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there…
On October 12, 2000 two Yemeni suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden dingy into an American destroyer, the USS Cole. Seventeen US service members were killed and…
American citizens must face the fact that torture is happening ‘in their names’ and by their country – despite George Bush’s denials, says Mona Eltahawy. One…
Even as President Ahmadinejad denies the existence of gay Iranians, this Atlantic report describes the history and practice of homosexuality in Islamic societies where everybody —…
Illustration by John Blackford. By Peter van Agtmael/Polaris (desert), Konstantin Inozemtsev/Alamy (money). Billions over Baghdad Between April 2003 and June 2004, $12 billion in U.S. currency—much…
Bashar Assad, never a man to accept conditions, is nevertheless imposing some of his own on the United States. In an interview with the BBC earlier…
Why does ‘The Newsweek’ have to carry a major story on the next chief of Pakistani Army, many a senior statesman or Junta leaders from the…
Pakistani Supreme court in a land mark decision has allowed President Musharraf to continue the office and contest the forth coming election in uniform, the decision…
At a defining moment in Pakistan’s chequered history former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is to return home to lead the socio-economic and politically deprived masses in…
ometimes in international relations it is good to preserve mystery. The irony is that often when an action has been taken but not admitted, everyone seems…
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier opposes French calls for European Union sanctions against Iran. He will back up his case with German Foreign Ministry data showing…
Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter, Washington, and Michael Sheridan ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit – almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms –…
Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden called on Pakistanis to rebel against President Pervez Musharraf in a new recording released on Thursday, saying his military’s siege of…
Mystery surrounds last week’s air foray into Syrian territory. The Observer’s Foreign Affairs Editor attempts to unravel the truth behind Operation Orchard and allegations of nuclear…
Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv, Sarah Baxter in Washington and Michael Sheridan IT was just after midnight when the 69th Squadron of Israeli F15Is crossed the…
Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 13, 2007; A12 North Korea may be cooperating with Syria on some sort of nuclear facility in Syria, according to…
For the guarantors of the agreement, it was considered a betrayal, but for Sharif it was a triumphant return. Unfortunately, neither was there a million-man crowd…
Rosh Hashanah is very different from other Jewish holidays. A thread of universalism runs through it, and its prayers differ from those of the rest of…
The terror arrests in Germany on Tuesday shocked the country. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with terror expert Edwin Bakker about homegrown terror, what to do about radicalization…
It has been unsurprising that since Abdullah Gul became president of Turkey on 27 August that much misguided analyses has been wasted on how “Islamists” can…
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003…
Since Yemen ‘s presidential election, the nation is experiencing several areas of instability. Crisis areas include the fourth recurrence of the Sa’ada war in North Yemen…
A majority of Turks still wants to see their country firmly anchored in the West. But their patience is wearing thin because of what they perceive…
A BRITISH general who was at the centre of plans to rebuild Iraq last night called for an immediate public inquiry into the fiasco. Major General…
(Full text of petition, in arabic, on: http://www.middleeasttransparent.com/article.php3?id_article=1972 Agence France-Presse – 31 August, 2007 Saudi activists will address a petition to King Abdullah urging the release…
New record property sale in London: a sheikh from the Gulf has paid a huge penthouse with incredible views across Hyde Park 100 million pounds, approximately…
Sept. 3, 2007 issue – The Americans were getting close. It was early in the winter of 2004-05, and Osama bin Laden and his entourage were…
Emin Colasan was born on 14 March 1942 in Ankara, his surname, which literally means desert strider, makes reference to a grandfather who had been exiled…
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 — Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase…
By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, August 22, 2007; A01 Former central intelligence director George J. Tenet and his top lieutenants…
Press release from former member of Syrian Parliament Riad Seif: More than two months after tests confirmed that I have an advanced stage of prostate cancer,…
One month ago, a branch of the air force intelligence in Damascus summoned the citizen, Misbah Aladdin, to interrogate him, and he has been since been…
Baghdad’s new Kurdish-Shiite coalition may end efforts at national reconciliation with the Sunnis. But a government pursuing common interests is Iraq’s only hope. Even stability brought…
Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, August 20, 2007; A01 By the time he arrived in Prague in June for a democracy conference, President Bush was frustrated.…
The United States is at last making significant progress against al Qaeda in Iraq–but the road to victory now requires cutting off al Qaeda’s road to…
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 19, 2007; A03 The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay private contractors up to $1 billion…
More than 60 Saudi activists have signed a petition calling for the release of a group of reformists held in the kingdom since early February accused…
Nicolas Sarkozy is as pro-American a president as France will ever have. But when he was received last Saturday at the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine,…
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 16 — As President Pervez Musharraf begins his campaign this week for re-election to another five-year term, senior figures in the governing party…
Benazir Bhutto, 54, served two terms as prime minister of Pakistan between 1988 and 1996. SPIEGEL spoke to her about a possible return from exile and…
Two years after the Taliban fell to an American-led coalition, a group of NATO ambassadors landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, to survey what appeared to be a…
London: “Emergency is being imposed in Pakistan ”. There was an element of finality in the news that had spread like a wild prairie fire last…
The United States plans to sell Gulf countries at least $20 billion worth of military hardware in the coming years, and will sign 10-year military aid…