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| Why the jihadists are gaining in Syria |
| By David Ignatius | October 09, 2012 12:59 AM |
| A red-faced fighter named Faisal arrives at the forward headquarters of the Free Syrian Army pleading for weapons. |
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| Would you trust Mitt or Barack in a crisis moment? |
| By David Ignatius | October 08, 2012 12:37 AM |
| Any presidential election is in part a referendum on the 3 a.m. question, namely: Who do you trust to answer the phone and make a wise decision if the red phone rings in the middle of the night with a nuclear crisis? |
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| By David Ignatius | October 04, 2012 12:43 AM |
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While the overlooked war in Afghanistan grinds on, a group of officials in Washington, Kabul and Islamabad are exploring a bare-bones strategy.
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| By Michael Young | October 04, 2012 08:34 PM |
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Reports that a Hezbollah member, Ali Hussein Nassif, was killed in Syria last week, along with other party members, should not surprise us.
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| By Rami G. Khouri | October 03, 2012 12:50 AM |
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American foreign policy in the Middle East and South Asia is bad enough on its own credentials.
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Hollow symbol
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| October 09, 2012 12:53 AM |
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In their apparently fruitless and interminable search for a new election law, Lebanese politicians appear to be playing little more than a game with the democratic aspirations of the citizens they are meant to represent.
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A Sharaa mirage
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| October 08, 2012 12:48 AM |
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In the wake of that Syria’s shelling of Turkey which claimed five Turkish lives, authorities in Ankara took a few steps.
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Vladimir Putin takes Russia into a new culture war
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| Konstantin Akinsha | October 09, 2012 12:55 AM |
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August is often an unlucky month in Russia, particularly President Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Submarines have sunk, neighbors have been invaded, and forests have burned out of control.
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Who writes the rules for our globe?
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| September 29, 2012 12:18 AM |
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It has been fascinating and instructive for me during a few lectures and university classes in the past 10 days in Missouri, Boston and Philadelphia to exchange views with scholars...
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Was Michel Aoun assassinated after all?
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| By Michael Young | September 27, 2012 01:16 AM (Last Updated: 28/09/2012 07:55 PM) |
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Michel Aoun is getting a taste of his own medicine. When Samir Geagea declared earlier this year that he had been the target of an assassination attempt, the general expressed dubiousness.
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A timely reminder from Egypt’s president
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| By Rami G. Khouri | September 26, 2012 01:20 AM |
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Try as they might, American and Israeli politicians and their herds of followers and lobbyists in the United States cannot seem to shake off the Palestine issue or the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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For many Arabs, it’s in with the new
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| By Rami G. Khouri | September 22, 2012 01:41 AM |
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I had the pleasure this week of mingling with historians at a conference at Missouri State University.
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‘Fog of simulation’ overwhelms a U.S.-Iran war game
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| By David Ignatius | September 22, 2012 01:41 AM |
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Perhaps it was the “fog of simulation.” But the scariest aspect of a U.S.-Iran war game staged this week was the way each side miscalculated the other’s responses...
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When imperialists happen to be Muslim
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| By Michael Young | September 20, 2012 01:05 AM (Last Updated: 20/09/2012 03:25 PM) |
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It never ceases to amaze how Arab eyes are forever on the lookout for some manifestation of Western hegemonic intent or condescension toward the Arab world.
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From the Rose Revolution to black ops in Georgia
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| By David Ignatius | September 20, 2012 01:05 AM |
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The Georgian government of President Mikheil Saakashvili, long a favorite of U.S. conservatives for championing pro-democratic “color revolutions.”
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What did we really witness last week?
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| By Rami G. Khouri | September 19, 2012 12:53 AM |
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It is always instructive but also irritating to be in the United States when tumultuous events occur around the Middle East or the wider Arab-Asian region with its predominantly Muslim populations.
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A week of criminals and culture clashes
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| By Rami G. Khouri | September 15, 2012 01:09 AM |
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So many different things have happened across the Middle East and in Arab-Israeli-Iranian-American relations this week that it is hard to know where to start in analyzing the situation and sorting out the important and lasting developments from the merely fleeting issues.
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America just cannot be the loved one
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| By Michael Young | September 13, 2012 01:46 AM (Last Updated: 16/09/2012 09:56 PM) |
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Dozens of disappointing Pew polls later, with the United States government having earmarked vast sums of money for public diplomacy.
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