
Iran’s Cabinet of Hard-liners
New President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration picks leave no doubt about the direction of his government…
New President Ebrahim Raisi’s administration picks leave no doubt about the direction of his government…
Ahmad Massoud, son of the legendary Commandant Massoud and commander in chief of the afghan…
To make UNIFIL more effective and prevent dangerous destabilization in the south, the Security Council…
Hezbollah’s actions in the past year and a half have turned many Lebanese against the…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Even if Hezbollah is responsible for the latest rocket attack on the Galilee, Hamas…
How long do you keep investing in failure? How much effort does one put into…
Beirut’s deceptive narrative is part of a general Arab and Palestinian style Describing Israeli…
A former assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs diagnoses the country’s incapacitated institutions…
by Benjamin Weinthal and Jonathan Spyer JERUSALEM — The State Department has opened an inquiry into…
(Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom at a 2003 meeting in Ankara with Recep Tayyip Erdogan,…
I know you pity us, but we can’t take it anymore… your pity. It is…
The Hariri tribunal hasn’t led to a single arrest, so Washington should let it expire…
What Happened? Lebanon’s prime minister-designate, Saad al-Hariri, has announced he would withdraw from the government-formation process, after trying…
Since experiencing major upheaval and demands for change in 2019, the country has achieved real…
Iraqi mourners attend the funeral of a Hashd al-Shaabi fighter Monday following U.S. airstrikes on…
Karim Sadjadpour analyzes the implications of the Iranian presidential election held on June 18. …
US President Joe Biden may have little appetite for Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking but seems determined to…
Killed by Palestinian Authority for opposing its tyranny, Banat supported brutal Assad Arab intellectuals…
Hezbollah may accept a new government, but would be as pleased if the country’s social…
Although continued pressure on the country’s political elites is necessary, the U.S. government needs to…
Tunis, 2018 — Yours truly, third from left, and Husham al-Hashim, who was gunned down…
BY ISABEL DEBRE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE – In this July 20, 2016 file photo, Kuwaiti Minister…
Hamas may not have realized it when firing its first salvo against Jerusalem, but the…
After its history was manipulated, shrine rarely attracted Islamic attention Reporting on Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa…
Disinformation around the COVID-19 pandemic, measures taken to contain it and vaccine roll-out campaigns continues…
The main body of the following article was published by Middle East Transparent on April…
The foreign minister had much to say about the IRGC branch’s political interference at home…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as…
Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Iranian foreign minister, described a rivalry with a powerful and widely…
I have tracked U.S.-Turkey ties since 2002. In the past, when a new president was…
Iran International TV has gotten hold of an audio recording in which Iran’s Foreign Minister…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:Muhammad Hejazi, deputy head of the Iranian Quds Force, is reported to have died…
Natasha Turak@NATASHATURAK KEY POINTS “I assert that there has been no sincere and clear position…
A Shared Nuclear Policy Is Better for All Sign in and save to read…
Washington’s conspicuous silence over the nuclear sabotage at Natanz no doubt stems from the fact…
In an interview, Frederic Hof recalls how Bashar al-Assad undercut the party’s position on the…
Whoever winds up spearheading the reconstruction effort, Washington should stay on top of them to…
On March 15, 2021, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with the…
Moscow has intensified its military deployments in sensitive areas and continued its counterproductive diplomatic track,…
Spot analysis from Carnegie scholars on events relating to the Middle East and North Africa.…
Police line up outside the headquarters of the central bank during an anti-government demonstration in…
For Moscow, Lebanon, a strategic country on the Mediterranean, is an important extension of Putin’s…
Israel has carried out dozens of attacks against Iranian ships throughout the Middle East, a…
When serving as Assistant Secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs in early 2020, I…
Is Hezbollah undermining its resistance by failing to address Lebanon’s many crises, as the late…
The former assistant secretary of state in charge of the Middle East portfolio…
The Vatican’s outreach to Iraq is laudable in its goal of decreasing religious violence, but…
The story of two Syrian exiles – Anwar R, 58, and Anwar al-Bunni, 61 (pictured) –…
In seeking to salvage the JCPOA, Biden should not assume cooperation from Moscow, but instead…
In an interview, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff recalls the movie he shot in Lebanon at…