A railway originally built by the Ottoman Empire to project power across the Arab world is receiving a second lease on life as Turkey launches its latest bid to become the Middle East’s logistics...
Iran and its allied militias launched numerous drones and missiles against regional countries between April 2 and April 8, continuing attacks even after a ceasefire agreement between Iran and the United...
Biden pursues peace between Israel and Saudia Arabia as he prepares to betray both.
Why Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords
Is Saudi Arabia’s crown prince joining a long line of absolutist rulers in the Middle East?
A wave of suicide attacks Monday in Saudi Arabia, especially one near the burial site of the prophet Mohammed, shows that radicals are increasingly challenging the Al Saud royal family and its ro...
Suicide bombers struck three Saudi cities on Monday, detonating themselves near the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, a U.S. diplomatic facility in Jeddah, and a Shiite mosque in the eastern city...
Saudi Arabia is changing, some say. The authoritarian desert kingdom is becoming more responsive to the will of its people and the demands of the global information economy, say others. This idea...
President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh today to offer his condolences on the death of the beloved Saudi King Abdullah and to meet his successor, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. But just who is Ki...
An Islamic State sniper gunned down a general in Iran's Qods Force who was advising Iraqi troops and Shiite militias in the battleground city of Samarra in central Iraq. The Iranian...
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan released martyrdom tape today praising a German member who was killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan over a year ago. The German, who was identified as Samir...
There are a great many reasons whirling around within European foreign ministries to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Compelling arguments include the Lebanese Shi’ite group&rsqu...
Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran ban books. Why are they being honored on the European book-fair circuit?
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
We have officially lost our minds. The New York Times...
Iran is at war with us, and we must win.
Women will always be serfs under sharia.
Hay un aniversario que puede nos haga bien recordar. El 29 de mayo de 1453 - hace apenas 555 añitos – las tropas lideradas por Mehmed II penetraron las murallas de la antigua c...
As my friend Simon Henderson has been chronicling, "Bandar is back." Sidelined in recent years by some combination of illness and palace intrigue, Saudi Arabia's legendary former ambassador...