As a result, the Arabs have lost their solid political presence and cultural reach in that periphery for the foreseeable future. The Arab world now seems detached from East Africa, again at a time ...

Iran’s intelligence network is not a monolithic entity but a web of competing and cooperating factions that execute the ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

John Quincy Adams famously warned against the US going abroad in search of “monsters to destroy,” but while claiming to ...

It would undermine the stability of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and all pro-US oil-producing Arabian Peninsula regimes ... 1 million killed during Iran-Iraq war, 350,000 in Yemen’s civil wars ...

Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of ...

The transitional process will be fraught with challenges, but the Syrian people deserve a peaceful, stable and prosperous ...

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Whether it’s Iran’s growing influence or the strategic ... history is largely shaped by its strategic position on the Arabian Peninsula, and its substantial natural gas and oil reserves.

Whether it’s Iran’s growing influence or the strategic ... history is largely shaped by its strategic position on the Arabian Peninsula, and its substantial natural gas and oil reserves.

Only later, did the US admit that the mission’s true purpose—which failed—was to capture or kill Qasim al-Raymi, the head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (Al-Raymi would be killed in a ...