Expanding Russian Influence, Faith Combines With Firepower
By ANDREW HIGGINS PARIS — The golden main dome of a new Russian Orthodox cathedralnow…
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How Pakistan wound up on the same side as Iran in the Syria conflict.
Pakistan’s Role in the Syria Conflict By Samuel Ramani On May 2, 2016, the Iranian…
Woman in Turkey’s east celebrates divorce by decorating car, urges others to defend women’s rights
A woman is more powerful and precious than anybody else,” she added A woman…
France Is at War in Yemen, Photos Indicate
Assab airport. Google Earth image Satellite imagery underscores Paris’ role in the under-reported conflict …
America’s Greatest Military Victories— From Yorktown to Midway
above: ‘First at Vicksburg.’ Illustration via the U.S. Army Center of Military History Is there an…
ISIS Burnishes Orthodox Salafi Credentials With An Eye Towards The Future
The Islamic State has long relied on several key factors in making its case for…
A Transformative Experience: Understanding Hezbollah’s Involvement in Syria
Nadav Pollak and Hanin Ghaddar How has Hezbollah avoided a catastrophic quagmire in Syria…
Bill, Hillary, Mr. Chagoury and Hezbollah
As was recently reported, a new batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s State Department have been…
Saudi Losses in Yemen War Exposed by US Tank Deal
BY MARCUS WEISGERBER The U.S. State Department says Riyadh can buy 153 Abrams tanks, 20…
Is Saudi Arabia Zion?
Kamal Salibi, one of the Arab world’s foremost contemporary historians, kicked up a storm when…
Everything Bad About the Rio Olympics Was Much Worse in Ancient Greece
Hygiene was a disaster, patriotism was out of control — and doping involved animal testicles…
Paradise, the New Muslim Utopia
ORAN, Algeria — Future writing project: a topography of paradise in the medieval Muslim imagination.…
Ben-Gurion: ‘Since Paula died, I’ve been alone, I’m half a man’
In 1968, Israel’s first prime minister gave a candid interview to an Israeli-British film crew…
‘Kufr’ And The Language Of Hate
Recently, a series of high-profile comments by Western politicians on aspects of Islam have come…
Think U.S. Nukes in Europe Are Safe? Think Agai
Turkish coup attempt raises alarms about nuclear weapons deployed overseas LYDIA DENNETT After the recent…
How the failed Turkish coup helps Putin
The coup attempted in Turkey this past weekend against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan mattered for Russia,…
Italian spy chief paid secret visit to Syria: news reports
The head of Italian intelligence paid a secret visit to Syria earlier this month, a…
The JCPOA and Iran’s Internal Factional Battles
The nuclear deal and the negotiations leading up to it have been a significant source…
HRW: Kuwait New Law a Breakthrough for Domestic Workers
Guarantees Crucial Rights, but Gaps Remain (Beirut) – Kuwaiti legislators’ adoption on June 24, 2015,…
HSBC: A Get out of Jail-Free Pass
HSBC laundered money for criminals and thugs. with HSBC whistleblower Everett Stern. His work helped…
A July 4 remembrance of America’s Catholic Founding Father
Charles Carroll of Maryland was the lone Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, and…
Parasites In The Lands Of The Infidels
The concepts of exile and refuge are ancient ones existing across many civilizations and cultures.…
The 18,000 Reasons Why the UK Voted for Brexit
London: This was not a referendum about 1973 – the year when Britain entered the…
Even With Confession of Cheating, World’s Doping Watchdog Did Nothing
By REBECCA R. RUIZ, JULIET MACUR and IAN AUSTEN When Darya Pishchalnikova, above, a discus…
Opportunity Or Necessity? The Islamic State’s Cluster Video Strategy
Image from May 2016 ISIS video in support of ISIS Sinai Wilayah The social…
Meet the Pyromaniac Playboy Leading Hezbollah’s Fight in Syria
Mustafa Bedreddine has reportedly been killed by an Israeli warplane near Damascus. ALEX ROWELL To…
The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’sForeign-Policy Guru
How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. By DAVID SAMUELS Ben Rhodes,…
When Arabs Were Freedom Fighters for Israel
There was a time when ‘Israeli independence’ was the chief focus of the left’s leaders,…
Meet the Small Iraqi Town that Breeds Jihadis
BY PETER SCHWARTZSTEIN / QUARTZ No matter where you turn when covering ISIL’s two years of terror…
Malaysia, freedom of conversion?
One civil court’s ruling has created an important precedent in a country where there is…
Seeing no end to power crisis, Gazans turn to solar power
With the problem of power outages seemingly unsolvable, Palestinians have begun adopting solar technology, with…
How two Red Sea islands shed light on secret relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia
A view of Tiran island from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. (AFP/Getty…
Protecting Skies: Ballistic Missile Defenses Proliferate In Middle East
Iranian missile tests highlight regional need for upgraded air-defense systems Tests by Iran last month…
Iran Locks Itself Out of the International Financial System While Blaming Washington
Out-of-date Iranian banking practices and rank deception have made international banks leery of risking their…
How Facial Recognition Might Stop the Next Brussels
BY PATRICK TUCKER Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get…
Belgian Counterterror Cop Warned of Terrorists on the Loose
In 2015, Alain Grignard said there were radicals the police didn’t know about David Axe…
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of hardening fault lines
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of the country’s multiple sharpening fault lines that are…
Russia Seeks to Reassure Israel Over Syria Pullout Plan
Reuters A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not…
The Mideast’s Precision Guided Arms Race
Patrick Megahan Precision guided munitions (PGMs) encompass a growing range of bombs and missiles designed…
Saudi ‘Raad al-Shamal’ exercise looks smaller than billed
Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly A still from a video released by…
Hezbollah Fatalities in the Syrian War
Analysis of funeral reports and other open-source data offers potentially revealing insights into the militia’s…
Countering Russian and Assad Regime Responses to Safe Zones
For such zones to succeed, they must be backed with militarily enforced no-fly zones and…
Putin’s Patriarch: Does the Kremlin Control the Church?
By George Soroka In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington memorably bemoaned that, whereas in…
The Battle of Aleppo Is the Center of the Syrian Chessboard
With ample Russian and Iranian help, regime forces have cut the rebels’ main lifeline in…
Russian influence over Hizbullah may reduce chances of escalation with Israel
Yaakov Lappin, Tel Aviv – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly The IDF believes that the Russian…
DEA and European Authorities Uncover Massive Hizballah Drug and Money Laundering Scheme
This investigation is a result of leads developed during the investigation into the Lebanese Canadian…
A Shi’ite genie has escaped the bottle – and is threatening Hezbollah
The leader of the Shi’ite sector in Lebanon, Musa al-Sadr, mysteriously disappeared in Libya in…
Kuwait Olympic COmmittee fails to forestall int’l sports suspension – PAS
KUWAIT, Jan 21 (KUNA) — The Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) has failed to fulfil its…
The Execution of Sheikh al-Nimr: A Saudi Need for Reassessment
The immediate price of such actions may be the further alienation of an important component…
The Elysée supports Ali Bongo
France is trying to catch up on Prime Minister’s Valls blunder on a TV show…