
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Out-of-date Iranian banking practices and rank deception have made international banks leery of risking their…
Out-of-date Iranian banking practices and rank deception have made international banks leery of risking their…
BY PATRICK TUCKER Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get…
In 2015, Alain Grignard said there were radicals the police didn’t know about David Axe…
Turkish soccer pitches tell the story of the country’s multiple sharpening fault lines that are…
Reuters A Russian diplomat sought to reassure Israel on Tuesday that its security would not…
Patrick Megahan Precision guided munitions (PGMs) encompass a growing range of bombs and missiles designed…
Jeremy Binnie, London – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly A still from a video released by…
For such zones to succeed, they must be backed with militarily enforced no-fly zones and…
By George Soroka In The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel Huntington memorably bemoaned that, whereas in…
With ample Russian and Iranian help, regime forces have cut the rebels’ main lifeline in…
Yaakov Lappin, Tel Aviv – IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly The IDF believes that the Russian…
This investigation is a result of leads developed during the investigation into the Lebanese Canadian…
The leader of the Shi’ite sector in Lebanon, Musa al-Sadr, mysteriously disappeared in Libya in…
KUWAIT, Jan 21 (KUNA) — The Kuwait Olympic Committee (KOC) has failed to fulfil its…
The immediate price of such actions may be the further alienation of an important component…
France is trying to catch up on Prime Minister’s Valls blunder on a TV show…
Said Seraj Mirdamadi has been imprisoned in Iran since May 2014 on charges of threatening…
Former foreign minister Jean Ping will officially announce his candidacy for the presidential election of…
Imam Moussa al-Sadr, an Iranian-born cleric, in the 1970s. Mr. Sadr, who lived in…
By Ali AlAhmed Washington DC – Saudi King Salman Al-Saud plans to abdicate his throne…
It would be a great loss- human, cultural, scientific, and religious- for Europe (France in…
Having a permanent military foothold in the Gulf will put Turkey in an elite group…
The prince’s latest foreign policy initiative is to confer with Islamabad, presumably seeking help with…
Saudi Arabia is using soccer and its influence in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to…
Although the latest Kurdish offensive runs the risk of spurring direct Turkish intervention, it could…
A tritium device, maybe … or maybe not Robert Beckhusen North Korea claimed to…
By Liam Morgan The Investigatory Chamber of the FIFA Ethics Committee has recommended suspended secretary…
Unless the Obama administration demonstrates stronger resolve in responding to Iranian aggression, the Saudis and…
The Assad regime in Damascus has depended on Lebanon’s Army of God to shore up…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani suffered in the run-up to crucial elections in early 2016 what…
Effort to limit violence and get president to relinquish power failed By NOUR MALAS and CAROL…
Working alongside Russian forces will likely enhance the group’s ongoing shift toward a more offensive-minded…
By SAM BORDEN Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, two of the most powerful figures in…
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Four years after the United States Treasury and…
Notorious terrorist was reportedly deemed a ‘ticking bomb’ by Israel and the West; rejected by…
India buys the Triumf, which can kill everything that’s not stealth within 155 miles India…
Foreign Affairs Although Algerians are lukewarm to the prospect of a managed succession, they…
As various forces converge against the main rebel supply line in northern Syria, Russia’s wooing…
By Hussain Al-Qatari | AP December 11 KUWAIT CITY — A Kuwaiti sheikh who is a major…
ARON LUND On November 14, the International Syria Support Group, a gathering of nations meeting…
Hassan Khomeini has made himself unpopular wuith hardliners by suggesting his grandfather’s revolution was hijacked…
Nicholas Linn Egypt’s got plans for Libya — to eradicate the Islamists and set it…
Of Turkey’s near-dozen neighbors, there is just one that Ankara really fears: Russia. This is…
The Vatican’s nuncio to Lebanon, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, center, visits a hospitalized victim of the…
A protester in Istanbul holds a sign reading ‘Alevism is my right.’ William Armstrong…
South Africa’s last white president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Frederik Willem de Klerk urges…
Columb Strack – Senior Analyst, Middle East & North Africa at IHS Syrian government forces…
James F. Jeffrey, Matthew Levitt, Fabrice Balanche, and Anna Borshchevskaya As the United States…
Proposed sale of the Littoral Combat Ship to Saudi Arabia recalls arms deals with the…
By ADAM NOSSITER and AURELIEN BREEDENNOV. 14, 2015 SLIDE SHOW|10 Photos PARIS —…