As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on inconclusively, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Taliban insurgency is gaining ground… Continue reading
As Pakistanis burned American flags and the Washington Post wrote of “a new normal” in US-Pakistani relations earlier this month, it looked like the beginning of the end of five decades of friendly alliance between the two countries… Continue reading
By agreeing to deploy the Army Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance System (AN/TPY-2) on Turkish soil, the United States and Turkey have concluded by far the strategically most significant agreement in many years… Continue reading
New tension is brewing between Turkey and Cyprus after Cyprus’ and Israel’s enormous gas finds in the Eastern Mediterranean… Continue reading
General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a senior commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, declared that, if Iran came under attack from the U.S. or Israel… Continue reading
How can U.S. government officials believe such silly and wrong things about the Middle East… Continue reading
Wherever one looks, Turkey’s “zero problems with neighbors” policy is fading… Continue reading
The armies of Syria’s seven neighbors were already scrambling into position on standby on its borders for acts of… Continue reading
Turkish government representatives insist that they want to develop good ties in all directions… Continue reading
It is truly amazing that the Turkish government would send to Washington in 2010 an Ambassador who had opposed Erdogan’s Islamist party… Continue reading
Turkish-Israeli bilateral relations remain strained… 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
Questions swirl around the death outside Sirte Thursday of Muammar Qaddafi… Continue reading
More than 50 percent of Afghans see the Western Alliance (ISAF / NATO) as occupying forces… Continue reading
These three cables from the U.S. embassy in Oslo give us a nasty view on Norway’s anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias… Continue reading
War tensions between Turkey, NATO and Syria shot up again with the announcement from Ankara that… Continue reading
We Afghans are proud to have partnered, over the past ten years, with the world’s struggle against terrorism… Continue reading
Chinese analysts have been pleasantly surprised by the stupendous growth in their cultural, economic, and political ties with Turkey… Continue reading
If some European countries still use the Holocaust, after six decades, as the excuse to pay fine or ransom to the Zionists… Continue reading
The rapprochement between Turkey and Israel during the 1990s was primarily driven by Turkey’s secular elite… 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
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















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