Iran senior military official’s killing was preemptive intervention
Opinion: The successful assassination, attributed to Mossad, of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayar reveals yet again…
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s heady days
These are heady days for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. With King Salman…
Potential US responses to the Russian use of non-strategic nuclear weapons in Ukraine
(A launch of the Russian Iskander-M, which can carry a tactical nuclear warhead, at the…
Israel’s Collaboration With Qatar – Morally Disgraceful And Strategically Damaging
Qatar is a great supporter of major extremist Islamic organizations and ceaselessly acts against Israel…
Redeployment Of Forces From Syria Designed To Alleviate Shortage Of Russian Officers
In a blog post titled “Redeployment” the popular blogger Anatoly Nesmiyan aka El-Murid takes note of…
On eve of elections: Appeal of National Council to End Iran Occupation of Lebanon
The “National Council to End the Iranian Occupation of Lebanon” issued the following appeal on…
New Views of Moderation, Resistance and the Holocaust in the Middle East
The real danger lies not only in denying that the Holocaust took place, but, worse,…
How the Israeli Army Perceives the Russian-Ukraine War, 70 Days In
Israel has been drawing its own conclusions from Putin’s failure in Ukraine: From the resurgence…
Past Imperfect
A posthumously published memoir by Fouad Ajami shows that the author never truly broke with…
Resurrecting Arafat in Beirut?
Hamas, with Hezbollah’s help, is building up a military presence in Lebanon, whose ultimate consequences…
‘Hezbollah Is No Longer in Lebanon’s Consensus’
Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder, Israel’s outgoing commander of the 91st Galilee Division, adds however that…
Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?
(Siegfried Hecker (second from right) visits the secret Russian nuclear city of Sarov in February…
The Story of the Armenian Genocide
Many years ago, a group of Armenian students came to me to ask me to…
A Revolutionary Identity
In an interview, Karim Sadjadpour discusses Iran’s grand strategy, the Vienna nuclear negotiations, and more.…
Finally, Some Movement in Yemen?
In an interview, Ahmed Nagi explains what the establishment of a Presidential Council last week…
US-Gulf divergence: Placing risky bets
MBZ refused to meet CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie in February because it had taken…
Russian Expert Alexei Maslov: China Is Not A Magic Wand For Solving Russia’s Economic Problems
Professor Alexei Maslov, one of Russia’s foremost authorities on China, weighs in on the question…
Seven-in-Ten Americans Now See Russia as an Enemy
Attitudes toward NATO increasingly positive A new Pew Research Center survey, conducted March 21-27,…
Consultant With Kremlin Ties: Time To Declare Victory And Wind Things Up, Otherwise We Will Become A Chinese Satellite
Political scientist, Konstantin Kalachev head of the Political Expert Group believes that Russia should suffice…
Russia’s failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages
By ROBERT BURNS WASHINGTON (AP) — Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages. The…
Mossad Says Can’t Find Archival Papers on 1982 Lebanon Massacre
Israeli Mossad’s ‘strange’ admission, per Supreme Court president, was made on a petition to disclose…
Does Greek Catholic Church help explain Putin’s obsession with Ukraine?
A plastic skull is displayed at a check point on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine,…
How Putin and NATO Could Get Pulled Into a Disaster in Ukraine
Ukraine is no Syria, and Putin’s miscalculations are astonishing—but the West still faces grave risks…
Kuperwasser and Boms: two Israeli analysts comment the Negev « historical » summit
Coincidence or not, the Israeli-Arab-American Negev Summit took place yesterday, Sunday, on March 27, the…
New Books Network Review: Rivals in the Gulf
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the…
The End of Hegemony?
Syria is being drawn into a de facto coalition that may aim to limit Iran’s…
Pro-Kremlin site briefly posts apparent Russian toll: 9,861 killed, 16,153 injured
A pro-Kremlin tabloid briefly publishes the apparent Russian war toll, reporting that 9,861 Russian soldiers…
Why Israel’s fear of Russia in Syria doesn’t have to drive its Ukraine policy
During the War of Attrition, Israeli pilots killed dozens of Soviets in Egypt in order…
A cold war is coming
Putin had what he wanted: he defied the United States and the Atlantic alliance, invaded…
A DECLARATION OF ORTHODOX THEOLOGIANS ON THE “RUSSIAN WORLD” (RUSSKII MIR) TEACHING
Dear Friends, In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s unconscionable and horrendously destructive invasion of…
(In video) H.R. McMaster : Think of Grozny, think of Aleppo!
Remember Grozny in 1999 under Putin’s direction, which cost 80 000 lives Look at Aleppo…
Russian Orthodox priests call for immediate end to war in Ukraine
(In this photo taken on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, Russian Orthodox priest Father Vasily Gelevan…
Arming Ukraine: 17,000 Anti-Tank Weapons in 6 Days and a Clandestine Cybercorps
(French military equipment is unloaded from a freight airplane at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in…
(Republished) U.S. Syria Policy Could Be Linchpin to Global Stability
(First published in Newlines, Metransparent published Frederic C. Hof’s « warning » on December 29,…
With war in Ukraine, the global religious landscape is destined to shift
(photo caption: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed a decree on January 5, 2019, granting…
Appeal By 664 Russian Researchers And Scientists: “We Demand An Immediate End To All Acts Of War Directed Against Ukraine”
Grandstand We, Russian…
Its « proxies » reinvigorated : Iran « very bad » provisional nuclear deal within days!
Accord not to cover Iran’s distabilization actions, atomic bomb “weaponization” and nuclear-capable missiles! …
Palestine was never a Shia issue, until Iran pretended it was
(Beirut, 1987: A ceasefire was arranged to allow for the evacuation of those who got…
Israel’s Mossad suspected of high-level Iran penetration
Image caption, Mossad is suspected of being behind the killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist…
How A New JCPOA Will Turbocharge Lebanon’s Destruction
One of the cruelest aspects of the Syrian Civil War was the ethnic cleansing. Every…
Middle East Of Life, Middle East Of Death
It is a year ago since Lokman Slim was assassinated in Lebanon. His was the…
Missiles first!: Iran to send large trade delegation to UAE – Iranian newspaper
DUBAI, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Iran will send a large trade delegation to the United…
Normalize, let insulters fend for themselves
WHY are we the ones being insulted by the Palestinians? When they are happy,…
A needed warning for Yemen’s rebels — and for our allies and enemies alike
Yemen’s Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, controls the capital city of Sana and much of the…
Hezbollah faces rising dissent, efforts to end Iran’s ‘occupation’ of Lebanon
A Lebanese woman burns a poster bearing portraits of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other…
Abu Dhabi’s Dilemma
The attack of January 17 will force the United Arab Emirates to make one of…
Man in the Middle
(Sir Gilbert Clayton anGeorge Antonius (in white suit) with King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud (centre),…
Space is changing. Webb is just the start, says ex-Israeli who was in from its dawn
(NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight-ready James Webb Space Telescope’s…
Solving Syria’s Crisis Starts with Sanctioning Iranian Oil
Rather than rehabilitating the Assad regime through willful negligence in its sanctions policy, the administration…
Qatar, like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but unlike Kuwait, cleanses its textbooks
Qatar has begun to cleanse its schoolbooks of supremacist, racist or derogatory references as well…