LAHORE: Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the chief of an al-Qaeda linked Pakistani jehadi group Harkatul Jehadul…
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LAHORE: The pattern of the Marriott Hotel suicide bombing in Islamabad suggests the possible involvement…
The endless wave of deadly suicide bombings across Pakistan, the Marriot Hotel attack in Islamabad…
A number of Islamic associations have put a quick end to their collaboration with a…
The national dialogue is on track again, albeit with its next session delayed until November…
“My homeland is not a suitcase and I am no traveler,” Mahmoud Darwish wrote in…
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Zardari, who has risen to the highest rung…
Seven years after the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States that shook the entire…
The headline in the pro-opposition Al-Akhbar newspaper on Tuesday described the reconciliation in Tripoli as…
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s visit to Libya last week represents the final step in…
Policy Focus #87 Format: PDF, 40 Pages Published: September 2008 As nuclear negotiations between Iran…
Not very long ago, you will remember, there was the Friends of Lebanon group of…
PolicyWatch #1401 This PolicyWatch is the second of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with…
Melody Moezzi and Michelle Obama have three things in common — a law degree, a…
Ali Abdallah in his cell in section 13 * It has been about two years…
It was remarkable that so few Lebanese politicians responded to the statements that Bashar Assad…
PolicyWatch #1400 This PolicyWatch is the first of a two-part series on Jordan’s reengagement with…
The Saudi king takes more steps to show openness towards Christians, Jews and other religions.…
Weeks ago, Michel Aoun’s political adversaries were already predicting that the general’s first act once…
In Egypt, the official al-Ahram Printing House refused to print an issue of the left…
NEW YORK — Madonna, this is a bit late because I was caught up writing…
CAIRO — In a Muslim country where the numbers of women wearing the veil are…
If you’re wondering what happened yesterday in Tripoli, where a bomb exploded alongside a bus,…
Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James Glassman addressed The Washington Institute’s…
There is growing concern in Israel and the United States that Hizbullah intends to alter…
In February 2008, a four-member Washington Institute delegation visited the Kurdish Regional Government(KRG) in northern…
By Farah al-Sweel RIYADH (Reuters) – When Saudi Arabia’s Olympic team appears in Beijing next…
At the strong urging of the Bush administration, Israel has pulled back from threatening to…
Walid Moallem came to Beirut on Monday, proving that absence doesn’t necessarily increase a sense…
Since the 6th of July, Marco Pannella – Member of the European Parliament and President…
This week, Lebanon’s new national unity government is slated to announce its ministerial statement (bayan…
last Saturday, exactly one week before Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due in Paris to…
So, Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, is now saying that United Nations Security Council Resolution…
The recent decision taken by a French court in Lille, to annul the marriage of…
It is easy to dismiss the National Christian Gathering established last week as largely an…
From an article in Al-Hayat last Monday, citing a European diplomatic source, we learn that…
A Libyan well known lawyer, Mr. Daw al Mansoury was kidnapped by « masked thugs…
How would Arab Christians, Muslims (Sunnis, Shias, Druze, Alawites, etc) and Jews respond to a…
SANA, Yemen PRESIDENT Ali Abdullah Saleh’s face is everywhere in Yemen. He stares out from…
If there is one thing that has characterized commentary on the Middle East in the…
The May 25 election of Gen. Michel Suleiman as Lebanon’s twelfth president was a central…
The most worrying development in the coming months in Lebanon may be only partly visible…
Developments in Lebanon are being viewed with great concern in Israel. In the aftermath of…
Listening to the speeches of President Michel Suleiman and Hizbullah’s Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah earlier this…
Last May, a fax arrived at the London office of the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Jane Novak, a 46-year-old stay-at-home mother of two in New Jersey, has…
** From DEMOCRATIYA Unholy Terror: Bosnia, al-Qa’ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad by John…
(New York, May 21, 2008) – The Saudi Interior Ministry should immediately and unconditionally release…
Whatever else is said about the agreement between Lebanon’s leaders reached in Qatar on Wednesday,…
On May 21, after five days of mediation, Qatari officials announced a compromise solution to…
