Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah
While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.02.2009 | Entertainment
A movie about the prophet Muhammad is in the works, according to Reuters. According to reports, the $150 million film will bring together a major holl...
The Guardian | Robert Tait | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
Iran's Revolutionary Guards today vowed to take revenge after blaming Britain and the US for a suicide bombing that killed six of its commanders and 3...
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 09.16.2009 | World
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
Yemen has mounted a tight security plan for the holy Moslem month of Ramadan starting this week in a bid to thwart any new terrorist attacks, the Yemen Times reported.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.16.2009 | World
The Iraqi government, in an attempt to mend the ethnic, sectarian divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims that has long plagued that country, is offerin...
Nadya Khalife | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
Lebanese women won the right to vote in national elections 19 years before women in Switzerland. Yet political participation by Lebanese women remains dismal at the national level.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, which Bush et al either supported or outright committed, actually strengthened the Ahmadinejad government.
Ray Hanania | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
Obama's speech to the Arab and Muslim World is creating a new context in which the people of the Middle East can more clearly see justice without the need for more violence.
Eric L. Lewis | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
The defeat of Hezbollah not only gives hope for moderation in the region, it also prevents a critical beachhead for an Iranian push for power within the Islamic world generally.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.
AP | AMIR SHAH and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 06.27.2009 | World
KABUL — The Afghan government quietly dumped more than 1,000 Shiite texts and other books from Iran into a river after a local governor complain...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
America pulling combat forces out of Iraqi cities is going to have multiple effects within the country. At this point, nobody can accurately predict what those effects are going to be with 100 percent reliability.
csmonitor.com | Tom A. Peter | Posted 04.09.2009 | World
HADI SADOUN, IRAQ - When Sheikh Jamal Sadoun, a prominent Sunni accused of working with the US, returned to his once sprawling eight-bedroom farmhouse...
AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
RABAT, Morocco — Morocco cut off diplomatic relations with Iran on Friday, accusing Tehran in a rare public spat of trying to spread Shia Islam ...
english.aljazeera.net | Posted 03.05.2009 | World
Early indications suggest Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, has strengthened his position as the country's leader after a strong showing by h...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
This election will show the public's choice, its mandate for the type of leader it wants to deal with complex issues, like why people use terrorism as a tactic to dialogue with those in power.
Omid Memarian | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Why after the Israel-Lebanon 34-day war two years ago, and particularly after the Doha accord in May, which restored Hezbollah to the Lebanese governm...
Ilan Goldenberg | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
This is not controversial history. It is history that anyone trying out for president must understand when there are 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in Iraq. It is an essential element to the story of the past two years.
Moira Whelan | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
There should be real questions about whether McCain -- as well as his foreign policy team -- has any knowledge of US-Iranian relations.
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home
McCain's "straight talk" on the wages of war and Iran has the irony of a recovering alcoholic doing Johnny Walker ads.
AP | Diaa Hadid | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraq's Shiite-led government declared Saturday that after restive areas are calmed it will disband Sunni groups battling Islamic extremists because it...
Washington Post | Karen DeYoung | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Iraqis of all sectarian and ethnic groups believe that the U.S. military invasion is the primary root of the violent differences among them, and see t...
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World