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November 12, 2013
Yasser Arafat Poison Report Opens Old Wounds
It was a crucial decision that could have triggered the assassination of Yasser Arafat. Early in 2002, the charismatic chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation was sitting in his headq...
November 8, 2013
White House Ambitions on Iran Deal Face Challenge From Hawks in Congress
As soon as the Obama administration reaches an anticipated deal with Iran over its nuclear program, it will face a new challenge that threatens to strangle the accord in its crib: the inevitable...
November 8, 2013
Palestine’s Self-Inflicted Wounds
About six months ago, I sat in a coffee shop in al-Tireh, a suburb of Ramallah, and interviewed a senior official within Fatah. The official, wanting to talk about the internal dynamics within th...
November 8, 2013
Exclusive: Obama’s Secret Iran Détente
The Obama administration began softening sanctions on Iran after the election of Iran’s new president in June, months before the current round of nuclear talks in Geneva or the historic pho...
November 8, 2013
West and Iran Seen as Nearing a Nuclear Deal
After years of fruitless negotiations, Western and Iranian diplomats are on the verge of an agreement that would freeze Tehran’s ...
November 8, 2013
Cash Offer Could Bring End to Iran Arms Threat
Iran would be offered a cash windfall from its frozen oil revenues under a plan being explored by the West to make progress in nuclear talks this week. It would allow Tehran to unlock so...
November 8, 2013
Kerry: ‘Important Gaps’ Must Be Overcome in Iran Nuclear Deal
Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Geneva on Friday to try and "narrow the differences" with Iran on an interim agreement over its nuclear program, a proposal Israel says would be a "very...
November 8, 2013
Will Barack Obama Let Iran Win in Geneva?
Iran and the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) seem ready to strike an interim deal that would loosen sanctions on the Iranian economy in exchange fo...
November 8, 2013
The Fix is in For a Bad Deal with Iran
It won’t be long, I suspect, until President Obama delivers this line to the Israelis: “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from...
November 8, 2013
Netanyahu Attack on Possible Iran Deal Risks Rift With U.S. (2)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rejection of a potential agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, which he denounced as a “very bad deal,” threatens to ignite the...
November 7, 2013
Obama to Allow Iran to Keep Its Nuclear Weapons Program?
Critics of the president’s feeble Iran policy have known all along this was coming. If the report in the ...
November 6, 2013
Report: Al Jazeera Paying for Exiled Muslim Brotherhood Leaders’ Hotel Rooms
Al Jazeera officials are keeping quiet following reports that the Qatari-owned news organization is funding hotel suites for the exiled senior leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood....
November 4, 2013
Religious Freedom Watchdog: Iran Lashing Sentences “Effectively Criminalize” Practicing Christianity
In 2010 the State Department documented a range of Iranian government abuses against Ch...
November 4, 2013
Al Qaeda’s ‘Great Escape’ Plot? Hundreds of Terrorists Freed
Hundreds of suspected terrorists have been freed in a series of brazen jailbreaks that U.S. counter-terrorism analysts now suspect may all be part of an al Qaeda-coordinated "Great Escape"-like p...
November 4, 2013
How ‘Moderate’ Is Iran’s New President Rouhani? Just Ask Christians & Gays
When Hassan Rouhani won the Iranian presidential elections, he was touted widely in the mainstream media as ...
November 4, 2013
In Pakistan, Drone Strike Turns a Villain Into a Victim
In life, Hakimullah Mehsud...
November 4, 2013
Militants Test Tunisia’s New Democracy
When protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Tunis last year, they hoisted a black jihadist flag that exposed the militant Islamist undercurrent in one of the Muslim world's most secular soci...
October 28, 2013
Experts: Election of Hassan Rowhani Causing Split Over Iran Foreign Policy
Experts said Thursday that the recent election of Iranian President Hassan Rowhani has reopened a fissure within the Iranian regime over its foreign policy, a split that the country’s supre...
October 23, 2013
Anas al-Liby’s Health Care During Terror Trial Could Gouge Taxpayers
Libya’s beleaguered Prime Minister Ali Zidan is likely to be hit by more political fallout from the U.S. nabbing two weeks ago of an al-Qaeda suspect off the streets of Tripoli, with Islami...
October 23, 2013
Reports: U.S. Cancels Drone Sales to Turkey Over Intel Disclosure to Iran
The United States has reportedly cancelled the delivery of 10 unmanned Predator drones to Turkey following Ankara’s disclosure of several Israeli intelligence officials operating in Iran, a...
October 21, 2013
Nuclear Talks With Iran Factor Into Debate Over Sanctions Bill
With senior Obama administration officials lauding what they called “detailed, straightforward, candid conversations” with Iran in Geneva this week, senators are weighing their next m...
October 21, 2013
Turkey Outing of Mossad a Betrayal, Say Former Spies
Turkey's outing of agents for Israel spying on Iran is a major blow to Western agencies trying to gather intelligence on an Iranian nuclear bomb and shows the NATO member is no longer trustw...
October 21, 2013
Senators Pledge to Defy White House on Iran Sanctions
Republican senators say they will defy President Obama and push for a bill to toughen sanctions against Iran despite White House objections that any new legislation should wait until after the cu...
October 21, 2013
State Department “Not Aware Of A Heads Up” From Saudis Before UNSC Decision
State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Friday that she was not aware of any warning from the Saudis to the Americans before they decided to turn down a seat on the United Nations Securit...
October 21, 2013
Analysts Praise Possible U.S. Offer in Iran Standoff, Despite Concerns
U.S. analysts praised President Obama's proposal to free up some of Iran's...
October 21, 2013
Iran Bank Chief Looks to Tame Prices with ‘Independence’
Iran’s central bank governor Valiollah Seif said the administration of President Hassan Rohani has given the regulator more independence to curb one of the world’s highest inflation r...
October 21, 2013
Hamas Leaders Admit to Building Tunnels to Kidnap Israelis
Hamas leaders confessed on Monday that they had been planning to kidnap Israelis using a recently discovered tunnel system burrowed deep beneath the Israeli-Gaza border, according to reports....
October 18, 2013
White House Weighs Easing Iran Sanctions’ Bite With Slow Release of Assets
The Obama administration, in the wake of a promising first round of nuclear diplomacy with ...
October 18, 2013
Exclusive: U.N. Uncovers ‘Credible’ New al-Shabab Terror Plot
The United Nations recently uncovered a "credible" plot by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab to mount a major terrorist attack against the U.N. compound in Mogadishu, according to senior U.N. o...
October 18, 2013
Iran Nuclear Talks: Will ‘Bad Cop’ Congress Approve a Deal?
Iran and world powers ended this week’s talks on Iran’s nuclear program with smiles, a rare joint statement that raises hopes for a diplomatic resolution of the standoff, and a pledge...
October 18, 2013
Don’t Trust Obama With Iran’s Cash
For the past five years defenders of President Obama’s Iran policy — such as Bloomberg’s Jeffrey Goldberg — have been telling us that when push comes to shove the administ...
October 16, 2013
EU Investigators: Corruption Behind “Significant Shortcomings” in Allocating Billions In Palestinian
Endemic Palestinian Authority (PA) corruption long ago reached t...
October 16, 2013
Iranian Official Wants Year to Resolve Nuclear Issue
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif offered Tuesday to take a year to resolve Iran's nuclear standoff with world powers. That is probably too long a time period for the West and Is...
October 16, 2013
Iran Sanctions: How Much are They Really Hurting?
As world powers meet with Iran in Geneva today, their main bargaining chip is an easing of sanctions, the most painful of which have cut Iran off from the global financial system and put a chokeh...
October 16, 2013
America’s Plan to Reward Iran, Without Lifting Sanctions
One of the several dilemmas facing Obama administration officials in their chess match with Iran is this: At what point do they meet serious Iranian nuclear concessions (assuming, as I don’...
October 16, 2013
Iran Stalls, Centrifuges Spin
First the Iranian foreign ministry learned how to tweet; now we are told their negotiators are using PowerPoint. Can peace in our time be far off? That’s the mindset of many eager...
October 15, 2013
Showdown Looms Over Nuclear Iran
Are we on the cusp of a major diplomatic break on Iran’s nuclear program at talks scheduled to open in Geneva next week? The mainstream news media thinks so. This inclu...
October 15, 2013
Iran Central Banker Says He’s Undoing Ahmadinejad Credit Policy
Iran’s central bank Governor Valiollah Seif said he’s reversing policies introduced under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that led to a surge in money supply, to curb one of the...
October 15, 2013
Has Islamism Peaked in the Middle East?
Almost every day there is news about a new attack by al-Qaida or another radical Islamic group, yet events since the summer demonstrate that there is also a regional pushback against Islamists in...
October 15, 2013
Investigation Moves Slowly in Kenyan Mall Siege
The crater of rubble where the mall collapsed is still so hot that investigators are having a hard time examining it for clues. None of the bodies of the militants killed in the deadly siege have...
October 15, 2013
From Sanctions to Checkmate
President Obama’s “hat-in-hand” approach to Iran’s new president, ...
October 15, 2013
‘Iran Plays Brilliant Chess Game, West Will Fold’
Iran and the world powers will start negotiations on Iran's nuclear plan Tuesday, and Mark Dubowitz, an expert on the sanctions on Iran, claims the Islamic Republic is playing a brilliant ch...
October 15, 2013
Navy SEALs Somalia Raid: Is Daring Attack a Sign of Shifting Strategy?
Two raids against Al Qaeda-linked targets in Africa Saturday raise questions...
October 15, 2013
Benghazi’s Al Qaeda Connection
The U.S. government is now acknowledging, at least indirectly, a significant al Qaeda connection to the 9-11 anniversary attacks on the U.S. mission and CIA station in Benghazi. On Monda...
October 15, 2013
Dark Clouds Over the Sinai
The black, charcoaled remains of a cow’s dead body lies in a sandy field behind a shelled-out mansion. Washed-out blood stains the walls of an unpainted grey room where sons say their 80-ye...
October 11, 2013
On Iran Talks, Congress Could Play ‘Bad Cop’
When Iranian diplomats sit down in Geneva next Tuesday with the United States and five other world powers for a new round of talks about ...
October 10, 2013
Drone Strikes Plummet as US Seeks More Human Intelligence
The number of drone strikes approved by the Obama administration on suspected terrorists has fallen dramatically this y...
October 10, 2013
Iran’s Dangerous Doubletalk
The Obama administration will sit down to talk to Iran’s representatives next week in Geneva. We must remember that these are emissaries of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene...
October 10, 2013
Hamas Facing Political Crisis, Leadership Fight After Diplomatic Missteps Send Group Into Tailspin
Khaled Meshaal, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, had until recently never visited the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Over the years there had been many justifications – a primary o...
October 9, 2013
Bags of Cash Show Iran Currency Squeeze Behind Nuclear Thaw
When Mohammad-Reza needed parts for his heater company in Iran last month, he carried a bagful of 500-euro notes on a plane to Dubai and...
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