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

The US imposing sanctions on Iran. The existential battle between Shiite Iran vs Sunni Saudi Arabia. The Armenian-Azeri War and more...

In the past, foreign conflicts have helped the regime in Tehran distract the public. But could this conflict provoke in Iranian Azeris a fee

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

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

Westerners strive to solve problems. When people appear obstinate, we often indignantly say, “Are you part of the solution, or part of...

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 --...

אין חולק על-כך שהמזרח-התיכון הוא אחד האיזורים הדינמיים ביותר בעולם. אם עד לפני כמה חודשים העסיקה סוגיית הגרעין האיראני את דעת הקהל...

Watching the Syrians kill each other, one can get the impression from the media that there are two sides—the Assad regime and “the...

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...

Recently, the American Chairman of the Joint Chief Chiefs of Staff, General Dempsey, said that the Iranian Regime is rational. It is...

As the Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic revolution in Iran, said: The Muslim world is engaged in a war with the non-Muslim...

With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...

Erdogan's recent electoral victory speech puts his true intentions regarding Turkey's foreign policy goals in perspective. He said that...

Shiites have historically been, to use the words of Fouad Ajami, the stepchildren of the Arab world. They constitute only about 12-15%...