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The Closing of the Muslim Mind

Far from being absurd aberrations to be dismissed, such accounts… Continue reading

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What Gaddafi’s Death Teaches the Middle East…And Should Teach the West

What can we learn from the death of Libyan dictator Moammar Qadhafi… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Saif Al-Islam Al-Qaddafi’s Palestinian Adventurism

In a nod to his father’s dream to serve as grand regional mediator… Continue reading

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WikiLeaks: Qaddafi Children Scandals Spilling Over Into Politics

According to a local Libyan political observer the Qaddafi family has been in a tailspin lately… Continue reading

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Libya: Qaddafi is killed in Sirte

Questions swirl around the death outside Sirte Thursday of Muammar Qaddafi… Continue reading

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Assessing Bahrain

Critics have often argued that Western nations have been hypocritical in their policies towards Bahrain… Continue reading

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More than Half of Afghans See Western Alliance as Occupiers

More than 50 percent of Afghans see the Western Alliance (ISAF / NATO) as occupying forces… Continue reading

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Syria: Minority Regions Braced for Civil War

Two of Syria’s most important minorities, the Alawites and the Druzes, fear that… Continue reading

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Turkey’s Foreign Policy “Revolution”: Assuming a “NeoConservative” Mission in the Middle East?

The Arab spring has catapulted democracy and human rights to the top of Turkey’s stated foreign policy priorities… Continue reading

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Turkey’s New Constitution: a Last Chance to Solve the Kurdish Issue?

There has long been a broad consensus that Turkey’s current constitution needs to be replaced… Continue reading

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The Iran Terror Plot Crisis: Big Trouble for Obama

Remember that Hillary Clinton ad about it being the early morning hours and the phone’s ringing in the White House… Continue reading

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Is Exposure of a Direct Iranian Plot to Launch Terror Attacks in Washington DC A Turning Point?

ABC News has broken a story about the disruption of a major Iran-backed terrorist plot to stage an attack on U.S. soil… Continue reading

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Pakistan and China: Strengthening Ties

As U.S. military operations in Afghanistan drag on, a strengthening relationship between Pakistan and China has emerged as tensions between… Continue reading

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Cyprus on the World Stage

Cyprus, an island near Turkey and Syria of roughly 1.3 million inhabitants, finds itself on the cusp of momentous change… Continue reading

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Egypt: Destroying Churches, One at a Time

What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a few weeks go by without a church being destroyed… Continue reading

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Supreme Leader makes decision about Iran’s stance towards Abu Mazen’s plan: Palestine from the river to the sea

Last weekend the 5th International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada was held in Tehran… Continue reading

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What’s happening in the Middle East: Fleeing Christians, “Moderate” Imam, Mad Turkish Leader, Syrian Revolution

Christians are fleeing the Middle East and Western Christians are indifferent… Continue reading

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The Arab Spring and the Jews

Throughout the ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa… Continue reading

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It Isn’t Israel in Danger of Disappearing, It’s The People Who Think That Way

I’m standing on the edge of the Roman Forum, by the Arch of Titus. This is the marble structure built by… Continue reading

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Erdogan’s North African Tour: Turkey’s Regional Aspirations and Western Interests

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

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Assad threatens to destroy Tel Aviv if attacked by Turkey or NATO

War tensions between Turkey, NATO and Syria shot up again with the announcement from Ankara that… Continue reading

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Here Come the Arab Elections!

Imagine when parties are negotiating over the Constitution and the election rules… Continue reading

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FM Mammadyarov Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

For almost two decades we have been facing the flagrant violation of the UN Charter and other documents of international law by the Republic of Armenia… Continue reading

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Iran and the Cyber Jihad

Second Cyber Hezbollah conference to show appreciation for jihad and resistance activists operating in cyberspace dedicated to jihad… Continue reading

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FM Hina Rabbani Khar Addresses the General Debate of the 66th Session of the General Assembly

Our nation is united in its determination to eliminate the spectre of terrorism from our soil, from our region and the world… Continue reading