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Free Syrian Army fighters stand at a former base used by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after the ISIL withdrew from the town of Azaz, near the Syrian-Turkish border, March 11, 2014. Syrian refugees in this border outpost were delighted to hear their home town of Azaz had been […]


Opinion: Syria’s Sectarian Specter

Opinion: Syria’s Sectarian Specter

The Iranian government must surely realize that its war on Syrian territory, and its defense of a bloody regime which relishes killing its people, is a lost cause even if the war lasts for decades. At most, it wishes to achieve two objectives: victories on the ground...
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One of the Yemeni activists paints graffiti on a wall in a street during a campaign against what they call “civil war” in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014. Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, faces huge problems on several fronts. Authorities are leading a war against al-Qaida’s local branch, considered by Washington as one […]


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An Iranian Shiite Muslim woman sits in front a poster depicting religious prayers written in Arabic in downtown Tehran on November 9, 2013, during a ceremony marking Ashura, which commemorates the seventh-century slaying of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed. (AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI)


The Myth of the Shi’a Crescent

The Myth of the Shi’a Crescent

The notion of “Shi’a crescent” was first articulated in late 2004 by King Abdullah of Jordan in an interview he gave a few weeks before the first parliamentary elections in Iraq, in which he expressed his fears about the growing influence of Iran in the Arab Middle...
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The historic Zituna mosque in the heart of Tunis’ old quarter. Two years after the Arab Spring uprisings, Tunisia is trying to win back holidaymakers in a lifeblood sector for the North African country which is gripped by renewed political crisis. (AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAID)


Opinion: Wonders Never Cease

Opinion: Wonders Never Cease

The wondrous and offbeat behavior of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never ends. The man has a real mania for reappearance of the Mahdi. A few days ago, Ahmadinejad said he expected the reappearance of the Mahdi, the absent Twelfth Imam revered by...