Iraq is in a mess. Violence continues. Factionalism leads to endless bickering. Corruption is at high levels. Christians live in fear or flee altogether. Islamism is constantly creeping forward… Continue reading
Until now, Turkey’s presence in Iraq has generally been encouraged by all major Iraqi groups… Continue reading
In his State of the Union message, President Barack Obama began by wrapping himself in the flag, patriotism, and love of the armed forces while trying to highlight his foreign policy achievements… Continue reading
A year ago this week, on January 25, 2011, the ground began to crumble under then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak’s feet… Continue reading
In the course of the present unrest across the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading
Ali Daqduq was recently handed over to the Iraqi administration… Continue reading
Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading
A Huffington Post writer with no known expertise on the Middle East, has accused me of being not only an alarmist about revolutionary Islamism but also as a “neo-con… Continue reading
As we approach the end of the first year of what has been called the Arab Spring… Continue reading
The Islamists in Seidnaya responsible for the riots were part of a cadre of inmates sent to Iraq sometime after 2003 to fight with the insurgency… Continue reading
To preface, when it comes to global petroleum supplies, a distinction is drawn between… Continue reading
Assad resisted Iranian arguments for closer bilateral coordination in Iraq and Yemen and flatly rejected being drawn into a war between Iran and Israel… Continue reading
I think there is going to be less coordination with the West and therefore a chance of more misunderstandings… Continue reading
Throughout the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading
Iraq is building a homeland where everyone lives in peace and stability without regard to sectarian, ethnic or factional affiliations… Continue reading
As Gaddafi’s regime crumbles, speculation has started to arise over whether the Syrian opposition will now be emboldened in their struggle against Assad… Continue reading
While an analogy doesn’t prove the point, I think that contemporary Iranian thinking is equivalent… Continue reading
A development of huge importance is happening in the Middle East, equivalent perhaps to the… Continue reading
Amid widespread protests during this so-called “Arab Spring,” one place that has received relatively little media coverage is Iraqi Kurdistan… Continue reading
Earlier this month I participated in Coptic Solidarity’s Second Annual Conference in Washington D.C… Continue reading
The Mujahedin e-Khalq faces a difficult position in Iraq as the Iraqi government has made clear it considers the group a terrorist organization… Continue reading
America is often portrayed as the big dog in Pakistan’s yard: a swaggering power that makes rules, barks orders and throws its weight around… Continue reading
Iraqi government officials see Saudi Arabia, not Iran, as the biggest threat to the integrity and cohesion of their fledgling democratic state… Continue reading
WikiLeaks cable about Egyptian foreign policy: Cairo-Baghdad Relations, Iranian ‘devils’, Syria and Turkey… Continue reading
In conversations with foreign ministry officials in Brunei, US diplomats hear what their counterparts believe was behind the capture of 15 British servicemen and women by Iran earlier in the month. The Brunei officials say they think… Continue reading
The US energy firm Chevron negotiated with Tehran about developing an Iraq-Iran cross-border oilfield in spite of tight US sanctions, according to the Iraqi prime minister in… Continue reading
Een Amerikaanse diplomaat beklaagt zich in een memo van 3 juli 2001 erover dat het Vaticaan weinig behulpzaam is in het Vredesproces en Midden Oosten diplomatie, omdat de Heilige Stoel [het bestuurlijke orgaan] vrijwel uitsluitend aan haar eigen… Lees verder
Op dinsdag 2 april 2002 werd de Geboortekerk in Bethlehem bezet door zwaar bewapende Palestijnse terroristen die probeerden te ontsnappen aan een actie van het Israëlische leger, Operation Defensive Shield, die erop gericht was om Palestijnse terroristen te arresteren in de omgeving van… Continue reading
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived in Tehran on Monday morning to discuss the latest developments in bilateral relations as well as the issues related to security and the formation of the new Iraqi government… Continue reading
We seek to establish better relations with Arab and Islamic countries, and are committed to the resolutions of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. In this spirit, we support the Palestinian people’s struggle for the adoption of their Inalienable Rights, including the establishment of a Palestinian State on the land of Palestine… Continue reading
This new Cold War represents the current ideological division in the Middle East between the “revolutionary bloc,” led chiefly by Iran, Syria, and more recently Turkey, and the “status-quo bloc,” led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt… Continue reading
Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadl-Allāh one of Shiite Islam’s main religious figures, died Sunday after a long illness. He was not a voice of moderation at all… Continue reading
On April 1, 1941 Nazi sympathizer Rashid Ali al-Gaylani lead a pro-Nazi military coup in Iraq [known as the 1941 Iraqi coup d'état] together with four pro-Nazi Iraqi… Continue reading
Today marks the 69th anniversary of the Farhud, the arabic Krystallnacht (1941). Looting of property and beating up of Jews took place in Baghdad, Mosul, Kirkuk, Irbil, Basrah, Amara and Fallujah. The killing of Jews took place in Baghdad alone. Today, not a single Jew is left in Iraq… Continue reading
In 1942, the British War Cabinet needed the support of the colonies to survive against Nazi Germany. The British organized a dialogue with representatives of Arab countries whose outcome was the Alexandria Protocol… Continue reading
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