Since the beginning of the new round of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, the Iranian delegation has been demanding that it benefit from the opportunity of what it says has become available in terms of an understanding with the (...)
French President Francois Hollande could have greatly served the peace process in the region by obtaining pledges from the Israelis to allow the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations to take off and reach the desired outcomes in return of his strong (...)
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has tried to reassure his public about the future of his party amid attempts to strike a deal in the region, whether with regard to the Syrian conflict or the Iranian nuclear issue. Hezbollah's secretary general chose a rare (...)
There is now a quasi-consensus between the mediators dealing with the Syrian crisis as well as the western politicians who are involved in this crisis to say that there will be no military solution to the conflict and that the best way to end it is (...)
This week constitutes a test of the flirtation that began between Washington and Tehran ever since the tortured lover, Barack Obama, did his best to obtain the historic opportunity of having a phone conversation with the so-called "moderate" Iranian (...)
A joke is circulating in Brazil in relation to the scandal of the U.S. spying on the phone of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef, who figures that the fastest way to inform President Barack Obama of her decision to cancel her visit to Washington is (...)
The British Sunday Times published a report from the Libyan city of Misrata in its latest issue last Monday. Written by the newspaper's correspondent, Christina Lamb, the report sketched a terrifying image of the proliferation of weapons in the (...)
In past decades, a scene such as the one witnessed at the Beirut Airport on Saturday night would have been taking place between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance, within the framework of deals to exchange Palestinian prisoners for Israeli (...)
If General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is in need to complete his image as a national hero who represents "the symbol of Egypt's dignity and the freedom of its decision," and who stands up to all those who meddle in its internal affairs, he has now been (...)
There is no exaggeration in saying that Barack Obama has disappointed many in the Arab region. Those individuals who had hoped to see the American president stand by the issues of justice and Human Rights and against the violations of the radical (...)
Relations between Washington and Moscow have dropped to their lowest level since the era of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the era of the Russian shield that Moscow tried to establish over the Belgrade butchers to protect their wars and (...)
The anticipated American strike on Syria could come tonight or tomorrow, with this article's publication or a few days after it. The timing no longer matters. What matters now, rising above the surface of events, is the fact that Barack Obama's (...)
If President Bashar al-Assad has succeeded in anything throughout his confrontation with his people and most of the international community, it is the transformation he caused in the way of thinking of President Barack Obama's administration toward (...)
If the bombings, shifting from one area to another in the streets of Lebanon, are meant to spread a state of panic and reciprocal fear – i.e. bluntly put, each sect's fear of the other, and the fear of going through the "other" neighborhoods and (...)
The developments of the Egyptian crisis are prompting numerous questions related to their possible repercussions on the change movement that swept a number of Arab countries, amid hopes that this action would lead to the enhancement of the (...)
Would it have been possible for Lebanon to avoid the political and security repercussions to which Hezbollah's intervention in the war in Syria was inevitably going to result?
Even Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah himself, when he announced for the first (...)
It would be difficult to find a circumstance in which the Palestinian command would find itself forced to succumb to American blackmail and Israeli arrogance such as the one it is currently facing. Indeed, it knows that cooperating with the calls of (...)
It is as if we have returned to the days of Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev at the beginning of the 1980s; talk of a new cold war prevails over US-Russian relations these days. The president of the United States describes the Russian president as (...)
The new Iranian president (the seventh president since the establishment of the Islamic Republic) Hassan Rohani summed up his program in his oath speech by saying that he relies on making a balance between principles and reality; and that he will (...)
The Lebanese diplomatic corps saw the failure of the campaign it had launched at the European Union to defend Hezbollah and prevent the blacklisting of the party's "military wing." All what this campaign succeeded to do was to reveal the extent of (...)
In the past days following the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, a lot was written on the hope that this fall will constitute an opportunity at rectifying the path of the changes that hit the Arab regimes following the wave of the Arab (...)
Regardless of how one may view the latest developments in Egypt following the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) rule and President Mohamed Morsi, and the launching of a road map as per the announcement of Gen. Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, it is fair (...)
There are many similarities between Taksim Square in Istanbul and Tahrir Square in Cairo. The two have turned into headlines for the protests against the Islamization of the state, or rather its subjection to the Muslim Brotherhood's control, and on (...)
Obviously, there is a major schism in Egypt between the supporters of President Mohamed Morsi and his opponents. However, the potential solutions to this crisis are unclear, knowing that this crisis constitutes the most difficult challenge facing (...)
We did not have to go through the painful Saida events to be reminded that when the state negotiates the sovereignty over its land with others, it actually paves the way for armed outlaws to take advantage, compete for power, and battle the (...)