It has become increasingly clear that the Syrian uprising transcends Iran's and Turkey's strategic interests, as it has become the battleground between the Sunni and Shiite communities throughout the Middle East.
AP | MATT APUZZO, ADAM GOLDMAN, EILEEN SULLIVAN and CHRIS HAWLEY | Posted 04.03.2012
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on ...
Robert Koehler | Posted 03.13.2012
The sale of arms to Iraq, $11 billion worth of almost everything, is going to move forward even though it makes little sense from multiple points of view, including U.S. geopolitical interests.
Michael Hughes | Posted 02.27.2012
The fact we have the military might to conquer the world matters not when our economic backbone is on the verge of snapping. As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "How far can you go without destroying from within, what you are trying to defend from without?"
AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 02.04.2012
KABUL, Afghanistan — In Afghanistan's first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime a decade ago, a suicide bomber slaughte...
Haggai Carmon | Posted 12.23.2011
The Iranians are motivated to tear Iraq up not only because of the Iraqi oil; in the Middle East, injury to honor is never forgotten and must be avenged.
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 12.13.2011
BAGHDAD — Two explosions in a Shiite neighborhood of eastern Baghdad killed 17 people and wounded around 50 others Thursday night, Iraqi officia...
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin | Posted 12.05.2011
In Al-Qatif, a large and predominantly Shiite city on the coast of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, renewed clashes between police and protesters erupted on Sunday, injuring both local policemen and activists.
AP | Posted 11.28.2011
MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain's special security court on Wednesday upheld sentences for 21 activists convicted for their roles in Shiite-led protes...
AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 11.20.2011
ISLAMABAD — Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslim pilgrims traveling by bus through southwest Pakistan on Tuesday on their way...
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 06.22.2011
I'm not arguing that Shiites have a lot in common with rodents and insects. But you wouldn't know it by watching Bahrainis and Saudis snuff them out with barely a peep from Western and majority-Sunni Arab nations.
Joshua Gleis | Posted 06.18.2011
Only in Syria, where a growing number of citizens are rising up against the Assad regime, has the United States and the rest of the western world failed to develop or convey any type of policy whatsoever.
Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 06.13.2011
The situation is fluid in many Middle East countries, but one important interim conclusion is coming to the open, and it is positive: The Islamic Republic is not emerging victorious as the sectarian Sunni-Shiite schism seems to have a growing impact.
Michael Brenner | Posted 06.12.2011
The professional successes racked up by those who produced the catastrophe of Iraq calls our attention to how evanescent memories of that historic exercise in deceit and failure are.
AP | By BARBARA SURK | Posted 05.25.2011
MANAMA, Bahrain -- Bahrain's king blamed a foreign plot for his nation's weeks-long unrest, using veiled language Monday to accuse Iran of fomenting a...
Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011
Messianic movements of this sort are fed by a deep human yearning for redemption; the feeling that the earthly existence we live is incomplete; that history as we know it will come to an end.
AP | By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO -- A security official in Saudi Arabia says a military force from Gulf states has entered Bahrain to help deal with a month of political unrest ...
Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi security forces have detained at least 22 minority Shi'ites who protested last week against discrimination, activists said...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD — Three suicide car bombers struck Shiite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 51 people and wounding more than 180 i...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
BAGHDAD (AP) - The long awaited announcement of Iraq's new government set for Monday will be delayed once again over disputes between the parties on h...
Peter Bouckaert | Posted 05.25.2011
The failure of Iraqi's high-paid politicians to live up to their responsibilities to their people and work toward resolving the core issues facing the country -- or to show up for work at all -- is putting Iraq once again in mortal danger.
Terry Kelhawk | Posted 05.25.2011
Interactions with Iranians and Arabs underscore the impression that America is "damned if we do, and damned if we don't" interfere in the Middle East. WikiLeaks now support this impression.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011
President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the internationalist/neo-realist approach pursued in the pre-9/11 years
Jeremy White | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday's coordinated attacks by insurgents are a chilling sign that it is far too soon to be breathing sighs of relief over the state of Iraq.
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.25.2011
What Arab Gulf governments and citizens, Sunnis and Shi'ites alike, want is for an independent Iraq to emerge within the framework of its Arab sister states.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 04.11.2012