By Kevin Sullivan
ISKENDERUN, Turkey — The Nissos Rodos, a 630-foot ferry, once cruised the Greek islands, moving tourists from one sunny paradise to the next. (...)
Algeria is competing to be the next Arab nation to witness a popular revolt. That is assuming soccer is a barometer of rising discontent in a region experiencing a (...)
By Matthias Gebauer
Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad’s regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes (...)
David J. Kramer is president of Freedom House.
Can everyone please stop pretending that Russia can be a partner with the United States and others in solving the (...)
As the regime narrows the list of approved candidates for the upcoming presidential election, Washington should criticize Tehran for limiting who is permitted to (...)
Washington Institute fellow Eric Trager sat down with Foreign Policy Association blogger Reza Akhlaghi to discuss how Egypt’s leaders view Iran’s regional strategy and (...)
Owen Bowcott and Ian Black
Appeal court judges agreed to the release of documents in the dispute between the Saudi princes and a Jordanian former business partner. (...)
Although opposition leader Nawaz Sharif was favored going into Pakistan’s fraught parliamentary elections on Saturday, nobody predicted that his party would win so (...)
It is rarely a good idea to draw maps in a hurry. But that is what colonial cartographers did in the Arab world after the First World War, and the borders they (...)
by Will Fulton, Joseph Holliday, and Sam Wyer
Executive Summary
The Islamic Republic of Iran has conducted an extensive, expensive, and integrated effort to keep (...)
By JAY SOLOMON
WASHINGTON—The U.S.’s closest Arab allies are jointly pressing President Barack Obama to take the lead in bridging the Middle East’s divisions over (...)
Nothing stands still. History and demography will propel us forward, whether we like it or not. Therefore, one doesn’t have to be a prophet to know that things (...)
Netanyahu and the IDF Spokesman were fast to condemn the launch of the drone from Lebanon, but chose not to name Hezbollah as the culprit.
A reexamination of (...)
While Iran’s government had announced earlier that it had found a way to exchange its due oil revenue to import the country’s needs and that some companies such as (...)
I was deeply struck by the photo of the eight-year-old American child, Martin Richard, who was the third casualty of the Boston bombings. It was apparently taken a (...)