Bush’s 'surge' increased the Iraqi violence in late spring 2007, including a spike in US casualties, and that only a political-military decision to pull back from offensive operations that summer

Suppressing students and silencing academic circles will not save Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi was on Sunday quoted as saying by reformist websites.

On November 27, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to censure Iran’s nuclear program and forward the issue to the United Nations Security Council.

We must remember that the discrepancy found in parliamentary seats and power, whereby Christians were overrepresented in relation to Muslims and were the politically privileged class, was a significant factor

In recent weeks, Egypt has witnessed an increase in sectarian violence between Muslims and the Christian minority.

The "war on terror" was pretty great for Iran's hardliners. The Bush administration's 2002 inclusion of Iran in the "Axis of Evil" was a major blow to Iranian moderates, discrediting

Turkey’s Ottoman Empire died an unwept death nearly a century ago. But the country continues to enjoy a unique eminence of leadership across the Middle East and in much of

Emirati citizens and expatriates in the civil service have been reassigned or stripped of responsibilities, as a result of The United Arab Emirates, a staunch U.S. ally and a neighbor

The takeover of Beirut by the largest opposition faction in Lebanon Hezbollah represented a violent earthquake to the already weakened Lebanese state. Recent military confrontations in the city were reminiscent

Islamic Union of Kurdistan: We Oppose Separation of Iraqi Kurdistan The Islamic Union of Kurdistan is the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot in Iraqi Kurdistan and is the third axis in the