The more concrete evidence of the formation of a distinct community can be traced back to the British colonial period ...

Winners and Losers Aspecter is haunting the Middle East. A little more than a quarter century after the Shah’s fall, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s wildest dreams seem to be coming ...

With the Arabs essentially taken out of this great game, it now comes down to an ancient animus: the Turkish Sunni Muslims versus the Persian Shiite Muslims for control over this region.

The call comes amid growing US pressure on Iraq to prevent its financial system from breaching sanctions on neighbouring Iran ...

Although Israeli Prime Minister Netenyahu in his speech to Congress painted Iran as a threat to peace, he left out important details concerning the relationship between Iran and the West. There is ...

The Middle East needs U.S. foreign policy to address two key threats: a weakened but unpredictable Iran and the resurgence of Sunni extremism in Syria. As President Trump begins his second term, he ...

Acrimony and distrust between Shiites, who form a majority, and Sunni Muslims remain strong. The ethnic Kurdish regions in the north are largely autonomous. Above all, there is the Iran problem ...

Qasem Soleimani made this statement, the Islamic Republic of Iran is in retreat. Iran’s air and ground lines of supply to Lebanon now go through Sunni-dominated Syria, where the Assad regime recently ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday sought to distance Iran from the Hamas’s October 7, 2023, assault on Israel, saying that ...

The first Trump administration left the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—also known as the Iran nuclear deal—in May 2018, significantly reducing the constraints on and monitoring of ...

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. “Iranian authorities are using the death ...

In a situation where Hezbollah – and, to an extent, Hamas – have become significantly ineffective, Syria came under the control of Sunni armed groups opposed to Assad’s Alawite regime. This ...