“The US knows the Iranian government cares most about staying in power. If that means sacrificing its non-Iranian allies, so be it.

The administration’s Iran strategy is a devil’s bargain that will funnel billions into Iran’s imperial project across the Middle East.

Turkish President Erdoğan - the Informal Leader of the Muslim Brotherhood: "The Sunni Gulf Arabs - i.e., the UAE et al - do Not Have the...

How are people in the Islamic world reacting to the UAE-Israel pending agreement?

While some fear the breakdown of the PA, Israel should promote the end of the so that a new generation can take over.

To understand any potential agreement between Israel and its neighbors, or for that matter between Muslims and non-Muslims, it is essential

Dr. Harold Rhode studied in Iran at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad in 1978 during the early and middle stages of the Islamic Revolution....

In the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, many Israelis of Middle Eastern origin felt that the Holocaust was a tragedy that affected European Jewry...

The Syrian government, Russia, and Iran (SRI) are trying to change the demographic makeup of Syria. They aim to depopulate Syria of the...

People with Ahmad Chalabi’s characteristics are unique. Leaders of his ilk appear maybe once or twice in a generation. The world has lost a

When the Iranians, then one of the most advanced and mightiest empires on earth, were conquered in 636 CE by what they deemed one of the...

Palestinians say that for Muslims, Palestinian land reaches "from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea" -- that is, over all of...

The first long study on the Jews in Turkey was written by the late American scholar Stanford Shaw---born Stanley Shapiro, a well known...

Major political events have rocked the political scene in Turkey the past two weeks. Turkey's once seemingly-invincible prime minister,...

The Iranians are the best strategists in the Middle East, better than those in the West, and the reason the Iranians constantly succeed...

Why couldn't Egypt's deposed President Morsi admit mistakes? Why couldn't he "compromise" with the military and stay in power? And what...

Turkey, although nominally part of the West, is in most ways culturally closer to the Middle East. Turks live with pent-up grievances --...

You might think that what the United States should be doing in the Sunni-Shi'ite conflict -- in which it has no theological stake -- is...

A full scale Middle Eastern, Islamic type of war between the Sunnis and Shiites is raging. Officials in Washington are doing their best...

The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form...