Media ID: 55349942
Caption:
Media ID: 55341414
Caption:
Media ID: 55304484
Caption:
Media ID: 55337083
Caption:
Media ID: 55332935
Caption:
Caption:
Caption:
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin looks on as he chairs a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, on May 7, 2014. (AFP Photo/RIA Novosti/Pool/Alexey Druzhinin)
Opinion: Putin, a Prisoner of the Past
While learning from history is the first duty of any statesman worth his salt, he should also be on guard against learning the wrong lessons. One example is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempt at building a national strategy around certain moments in history...Caption:
The late Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandsons, Ali Khomeini, right, and Yasser Khomeini, second right, greet former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, left, as parliament speaker Ali Larijani, second left, sits with them during a ceremony commemorating the anniversary of the death of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini at his shrine just outside Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 (AP Photo/Office of the Supreme Leader)
Opinion: On the Meanings of Influence
During his recent Arab tour Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani proudly stated that his country’s political influence extends from Lebanon and Syria to Iraq and Yemen. However Larijani did not need to emphasize this fact, which is something that is equally...Caption:
Yemeni protesters chant slogans against Houthi rebels during a rally on September 30, 2014 in the capital Sana’a. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED HUWAIS)
Opinion: The Roots of the Yemeni Crisis
Ever since the union of North and South Yemen was declared in 1990, political conflicts and differences in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country have never ceased, reaching their climax in the 1994 bloody civil war between former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the...Caption:
U.S. President Barack Obama steps out from Air Force One upon his arrival in Brussels June 4, 2014. Obama will attend the G7 meeting. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (BELGIUM – Tags: POLITICS)