The UN’s Human Rights Council released an unedited version of a 220-page report on Friday detailing Muammar Gaddafi’s last hours when rebel fighters moved into Sirte… 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
Conflicts between Sunni and Shia Muslims are not at all new, but… Continue reading
What we are seeing is a political Islamist tsunami… Continue reading
According to multiple eyewitnesses one can now see both the Libyan rebel flag and the flag of al Qaeda fluttering atop… Continue reading
How could Qatar’s foreign policy best be defined during the Arab Spring… Continue reading
The shadowy, scattered and underground Islamist forces have become powerful… Continue reading
Libya’s transitional leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil was quite clear about his intentions for liberated Libya… Continue reading
Once the fact of Muammar Qaddafi’s abrupt demise on Thursday is absorbed, Libya will be left with the same power struggle between… Continue reading
What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi… Continue reading
Questions swirl around the death outside Sirte Thursday of Muammar Qaddafi… Continue reading
Throughout the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading
The September 12-16 tour of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya has occasioned the question what role… Continue reading
On the front lines there are a lot of them, they are jihadists, dangerous, militant in their beliefs… Continue reading
The United States has recognized the Transitional National Council (TNC) of Libya as the provisional government of that country… Continue reading
The world’s longest ruling head of state, Mu’ammar al-Qadhdhafi (the correct transliteration of his name), would have been ruler of Libya for exactly 42 years on… Continue reading
In recent days the Iranian media has given considerable attention to the developments in Libya… Continue reading
Muammar Qaddafi, his sons and military and political elite have abandoned their Bab al Aziziya fortress… Continue reading
As NATO jets bombed the military positions of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the watching rebels cheered… Continue reading
Muammar Qaddafi’s regime fell in Tripoli just before midnight Sunday… Continue reading
Abdel Fattah Younes, the top military commander of the Libyan rebels and a former Libyan government official, has been assassinated… Continue reading
As I predicted in early February, it is now clear that Egypt no longer tries seriously to stop weapons and terrorists and money from flowing into… Continue reading
It’s truly amazing that literally every day the Obama Administration finds a new way to mess up the Middle East… Continue reading
Just your normal Middle East policy day in which every instinct the Obama administration has is wrong… Continue reading
Russia is opposed to any UN Security Council resolution on Syria,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told journalists… Continue reading














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