Though hardly known for political stability, for the past few months Iraq has witnessed renewed chaos. Ongoing protests have seen the Iranian consulate in the Shiite city of Karbala attacked and led to the prime minister resigning. The country has...
Last week, dozens of world leaders, intellectuals and scholars around the world attended the Kuala Lumpur Summit (KLS) to discuss issues facing the Muslim world (ummah) ranging from Islamophobia, poverty and sanctions to persecution in China and India. Instead Of...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance is ready to engage in top-level conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin again. “If the framework is right, I will meet with President Putin,” Stoltenberg said in an interview just days prior to...
For fourteen years, Benjamin Netanyahu has led Israel’s conservative Likud party. Now, however, he faces a real challenger in Gideon Sa’ar, who could redefine Israel’s position in the Middle East. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is one of the longest-serving...
In the murder case of the government-critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi judge has sentenced five individuals to death. For months, Saudi Arabia had faced scrutiny over the murder until, on Monday, the public prosecutor’s office in Riyadh announced the...
Once regarded as a beacon of modernity and Westernization, Turkey has long been the closest Muslim ally of the United States in the Middle East. This cooperation spanned not only defense and economic partnership, but also translated into positive sentiment...
The Cold War may be long over but when the leaders of NATO member states gathered in London on December 3 and 4, the environment was no less cold. Instead of a bipolar world of the Soviet Union versus the...
Dramatic events and developments have been unfolding in Lebanon over the past week, with frantic efforts to get the small Mediterranean country of its current political bottleneck. Lebanon has been troubled with crippling popular protests now in their eighth week...
Following the impeachment of President Donald Trump in the US House of Representatives, a trial in the Senate will be held. The Democratic party’s issue: Republicans hold the majority and have already indicated that the procedure will be quickly settled...
Iran’s telecommunications minister said the country has averted a crisis after a second cyber attack was launched against government installations within the same week. Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi would not give further details, saying only that the last attack was “massive,”...