Opinion

If Daniel Bellemare, the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, is planning to base his case against the four Hezbollah members indicted for the assassination of Rafik Hariri solely …

In this Nile River town in Upper Egypt, a pious and politically active Islamist group is handing out pamphlets that warn of what it claims are the dangers of a …

The Libyan rebel forces’ rout of government troops from Tripoli last month heralded a pivotal moment in history, with the toppling of Muammar al-Qadhafi’s regime marking the third North African …

Decades of fruitless, frustrating and ultimately self-defeating negotiations have yielded nothing meaningful for the Palestinians. For the Israelis, however, 20 years of the Oslo process have been immensely productive. During …

After four months of a steadily intensifying popular uprising, the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, is bracing for what may prove to be a climactic few weeks ahead. …

“Freedom ain’t free” is a commonly used idiom in the United States. Somewhat jingoistic and trite it may be — certainly when used to justify a militaristic US foreign policy …

Saudi Arabia overtook Israel as Washington’s largest purchaser of arms in 2009 and their demand shows little sign of abating. Riyadh-Tehran relations are at their worst since the Saudis were …

One of the inherent ironies of a proper democracy is that a parliamentary majority can vote to temper or even topple the tenets upon which a country’s democratic qualities are …

The rift between Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Turkish military reached a critical breaking point with the resignation of the military’s top command staff. The resignations of …

Tahrir Square of late has come to resemble an Egyptian version of the famed Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park; the difference being, perhaps, that it is ringed with barricades …