Since taking over as director of Military Intelligence (MI) in January 2006,Major General Amos Yadlin…
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President Bush returns to the Middle East this week for the second time in 2008.…
This week, the democratically elected, pro-Western Lebanese government took the bold and unprecedented decision to…
Once we accept that this week’s alleged labor unrest was only the latest phase in…
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A former Iranian president has said that…
It was a mixed week for the head of the Democratic Gathering, Walid Jumblatt. His…
I have always been fascinated by the language of politicians. They have a special ability…
Let’s thank Michel Aoun for informing us that the shooting of two Phalangist sympathizers in…
Senator Barack Obama has gotten much heat for suggesting that when people lose faith in…
Much ado has been made of the Israeli security fence isolating the West Bank. When…
On April 8, Egypt held elections for nearly 53,000 municipal representatives. Not surprisingly, participation was…
Academic Researcher and Lecturer in Asian Studies Interview by Rita Ibrahim You have written a…
[Bigger than the Vatican, awash in cash. How a shrine built a business empire and…
Is it time for the government to withdraw from the European convention on human rights?…
Amid rumors that the political furniture is being moved around in Damascus, perhaps the strangest…
A determined refrain heard among those thinking about or dealing with the Middle East is…
When Syria’s foreign minister and one of its Lebanese marionettes both mention the Hariri tribunal…
Osama bin Laden flew to London in 1986 to help negotiate the purchase of Russian-made…
The Catholic baptism of the well known journalist, Magdi Allam, Egyptian and non practising Muslim,…
Recently, we’ve heard Hizbullah’s secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, pick up on a theme dear…
London: Mild, suave, sober, gentleman, soft-spoken, handsome and many other befitting descriptions for a man…
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s center-right party got a rebuke from French voters in recent local elections,…
Saudi Arabia is a land of predicament for Saudi women seeking opportunities but facing constraints.…
** (Photo: New PPP speaker of Parliament, Dr. Fehmida Mirza) ** In his historic play…
Detlev Mehlis did not say much that was new on Tuesday evening, when he was…
Vatican representatives and Muslim thinkers will meet in Rome next March to hammer out a…
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has adopted a new charter that calls for…
There is a passage in Samantha Power’s “A Problem from Hell,” her Pulitzer Prize And-the-Winner-Is-Them-Again…
In recent weeks, a message has been coming out of Iran, one transmitted to Arab…
In the Middle East, it is widely believed that Syria is obstructing the election of…
The USS Cole has certainly created a ruckus in Lebanon, especially when no one has…
When Hezbollah official Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated earlier this month in Damascus, the collateral damage…
Every election in Pakistan brings out more about ISI’s perpetual role in the subversion of…
** Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton Princeton University Press, 2007, 183. pp.…
In response to the February 12 assassination of chief of operations Imad Mughniyeh, Hizballah has…
Another round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is certainly likely, but I don’t consider…
Rarely a day goes by without someone writing an article protesting against the incapacity of…
** By Markus Becker New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an…
Syria has vowed to soon release the results of its inquiry into the assassination of…
Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto laid her life so that the people of Pakistan could have…
For months, we’ve been hearing the presidential candidates promise American voters “change.” But as the…
For those of us who had connections with Israeli intelligence, Prince Turki al-Faisal was a…
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people,…
A UN expert on women’s rights said on Wednesday she had heard accounts of serious…
NEW YORK — When it comes to Islamic law, or Sharia, words certainly do come…
** Amir Mir- Islam Abad Laith Al Libi, the Libyan al-Commander had been living in…
You know that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner didn’t expect to be long for the…
CAIRO — After he scored a goal in a recent match against Sudan in the…
(Credible fundamentalist Sources, as well as Pakistani semi official sources, have always pretended that ISI…
In the summer of 1944, when soldiers of Free France were still fighting alongside the…
