The Iraqi city of Mosul has been emptied of its Christian community in only a matter of days, in one of the most alarming developments in recent memory in...
The Shejaiya massacre in Gaza Sunday coincided with a striking level of popular anger at Israel around the world, as efforts to broker a cease-fire pick up...
Israel has been successful at portraying its actions in the Gaza strip as a war against the Hamas movement; the simple fact is that it is a war against...
The diplomatic wrangling over a cease-fire in Gaza looks set to continue, amid a flurry of meetings, telephone contacts and media statements by officials and...
The bizarre role of the United States government in current events in Israel and Palestine has reached such a peak this week that someone in the realm of the...
Energy politics underlie the explosive Ukraine crisis, as Europeans weigh U.S. calls for tougher sanctions against the ability of Russia to disrupt gas...
The proclamation of a new Cold War, following Russia’s annexation of Crimea, turned out to be alarmist and premature.
China’s ethnic policies are largely to blame for the state of Uyghur-Chinese relations. In the 1930s and 1940s, Communist China developed its own minzu...
Like a modern-day Caesar, Bashar Assad strolled into a huge hall to hear the applause of supporters as he swore himself in for another seven-year term as...
News headlines Tuesday were full of three simple words: “Hamas rejects cease-fire.”
The attorney general of the U.S. has offered the latest evidence of the dysfunction that guides Washington’s Middle East policy.
The Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip has produced a death toll that is approaching 200 people, mainly civilians, a wide swathe of destruction in one...
The firing of rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel Friday should serve as a wake-up call to national leaders, as if they needed one, about the...
It has become clear that the Israeli authorities were aware that the three kidnapped teenagers were dead from day one.
As Israel was busy firing hundreds of rockets at Gaza Tuesday evening, much of the Arab world was wrapped up in the admittedly enthralling Germany – Brazil...
As Israel appears wont to do every couple of years, it is bombarding the Gaza Strip, sentencing a population already under siege to brutal collective...
Despite growing unease over his tenure by allies in the West and the region, including internal partners in Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears as...
Earlier this year, Lebanon experienced a wave of speculation about how its presidential election would play out.
With Electricite du Liban’s announcement Friday that it will only be providing power for 11 hours a day during summer, outside the capital, it is time, once...
The news that an extremist group Thursday issued a wide-ranging threat against Christian places of worship in Lebanon has been met with the right kind of...
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been adept at following the playbook of Syrian President Bashar Assad when it comes to dealing with popular unrest.
While many have warned of the “Iraqization” of Lebanon for years, what with the increase in car bombings and suicide vests, Baghdad should now be wary of...
Michel Aoun’s “initiative” to end the political impasse in Lebanon, presented Monday, offered the latest example of how distant the country is from a...
In most countries, a constitution is a binding document, but in Lebanon it seems almost open to individual interpretation, with various political parties...
As the holy month of Ramadan starts across the Muslim world, it is essential now more than ever to confront the threats against Islam, in particular those...
Any talk of warding off foreign intervention in Iraq comes too late: The Iranians already have units on the ground, and the first batch of some 300 U.S....
Amid calls to form a national government by his domestic opposition, much of the Sunni population, Shiite leaders and U.S. politicians, Iraqi Prime Minister...
After suffering from a decade of foreign occupation, Iraq entered a new phase of its 21st century history this month when a multipronged insurgency seized...
John Kerry landed in Iraq Monday to dispense advice to Iraqi leaders in the wake of military gains by insurgents and Islamist extremists.