Erdoğan blasts NY Times: ‘Who are you? Know your place’
“Dark Clouds Over Turkey” (full text) Monday 25 May 2015 Hopefully, the Turks shall…
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For Al-Baghdadi, Islam is a religion of war, a shrewd message according to Father Samir
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an…
Hezbollah’s Victory in Qalamoun
The group will no doubt continue helping the Assad regime hang on, but the war’s…
Declassified and released al-Qa’ida document mentions Al-Jazeera’s Ahmed Zaidan
On 8 May 2015 The Intercept published an article based on two documents that it…
Why the Seymour Hersh story was declined by The New Yorker
A knowledgeable source and writer of this website, who declined to be named, gave Middle…
AQAP’s infiltration of Yemen’s Sunni tribes reduces effectiveness of precision airstrikes sustains jihadists’ expansion
Saudi-led airstrikes hit a site believed to be a munitions storage facility in Yemen’s capital…
Bashar Assad’s perilous dance with Iran
The latest story from Syria this week, published by The Daily Telegraph, was that Ali…
Ethnic tensions spill onto Iranian soccer pitches
Iranian Azeri Soccer Fans Burn the Iranian Flag Against a backdrop of the violent…
Europe and Islam: The Jewish Grand Sanhedrin as example
The main body of the following article was published by Middle East Transparent on April…
Obama Loses the Sunni Arabs
They reject his attempts to reassure them over the Iran nuclear deal. The promise of…
The Saudi Snub
The White House’s bottom line for Camp David is to limit public condemnation of the…
The Most Overlooked Line in Netanyahu’s Address
One of the prime minister’s remarks suggests that a more fundamental dispute may be brewing…
Iran’s Next Supreme Leader and the Nuclear Deal
In all likelihood, Khamenei’s potentially imminent successor will be even more of a hardliner, and…
Apartheid city
Salman Masalha New Arab city will perpetuate inequality We should oppose the construction of a…
Tauran calls for international community to intervene after Christians are burnt alive
The President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue speaks to Vatican Radio about the…
How to Muddle Through with Iran
By revealing all the offers that Iran has rejected, Washington could block Tehran’s potential Plan…
Hezbollah’s Message for Israel
Given its recent track record of targeting Israelis, Hezbollah’s decision to take public responsibility for…
Iran Is Forcing Poor Afghans to Fight and Die in Syria
Rebels capture reluctant Afghans in Aleppo Jassem Al Salami Wednesday 22 October 2014 “Come…
New Poll Shows Majority of Saudis, Kuwaitis, Emiratis Reject ISIS, Back Two-State Solution with Israel
A rare poll conducted last month in three Gulf Cooperation Council states demonstrates decisive rejection…
Responding Effectively to the Military Challenges in Syria
The moderate rebel force currently envisioned by Washington would take far too long to arrive…
Interview with an Islamic State Recruiter: ’Democracy Is For Infidels’
How does Islamic State think? How do its followers see the world? SPIEGEL ONLINE met…