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Although the goal of ridding the Middle East of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is receiving increased attention, it remains a distant prospect. Achieving such an ambitious goal will require [...]

Muammar Gaddafi is dead, put to death on 20 October 2011, by a Libyan mob howling for his blood to avenge more than four decades of his megaloma niacal madness. [...]

My 15-year-old daughter suddenly declared last week that she needed a break. A break from what? I inquired, imagining a teenage world of academic tests, peer pressure or girlish gossip. [...]

The region's armed forces are being put to the test DESPITE the Middle East's bloody reputation, most of the region's generals have been able to kick off their boots for [...]

Byline: Michael Ip Sanaa, Yemen--Rescuers uncover the body of a man from under the rubble of a house destroyed by an airstrike on March 26. Saudi Arabia and its Gulf [...]

Israel, without the United States, would probably not exist. The country came perilously close to extinction during the October 1973 war when Egypt, trained and backed by the Soviet Union, [...]

James J. Schneider's article 'T.E. Lawrence and the mind of an insurgent' was appreciated and regarded to be a cogent contribution to the thinking about counter insurgency, an important issue in Iraq. The idea of wear and tear and friction within a military system, and the Arab's focus on wearing down their Turkish opponents was highlighted by Schneider's discussion of Lawrence's biological element of warfare.

The Middle East is under fire and dealing with the chaos encourages strange bedfellows. Violent rampages of Islamic State terrorists, alarm all and could spur new cooperation. Most players support [...]

In April of 1993, President Bill Clinton and Elie Wiesel presided over the dedication of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, D.C. Wiesel spoke first. He asked, 'What have we [...]

Is Iran rational? That's the key question policy-makers and experts have been asking for at least the last decade as Iran has gotten closer to bringing its nuclear-weapons program on [...]

Ten years ago, a small group of men launched unprecedented terrorist attacks on icons of American power. The dramatic attack by Al Qaeda ushered in an era of seemingly unending [...]

Osama bin Laden's brand of brutal jihad is losing its appeal in the Arab world A FEW bullets were enough. But the shots that killed Osama bin Laden in the [...]

This North African country has become increasingly chaotic since the U.S.-backed overthrow of longtime dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011. The terrorist group ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) [...]

Cairenes cheering for Hizbullah The longer the war goes on, the stronger the Islamists and those who reject peace with Israel are becoming across the region THE al-Jazeera satellite channel, [...]

Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based daily Al Quds al-Arabi, is one of the best-connected Arab journalists covering global events. Among his reporting coups: the first interview with Osama [...]

The secretary of state's mission to the Middle East is a last-ditch attempt at American engagement in the region. And if it fails? COLIN POWELL'S slow journey eastwards is becoming [...]

The Syrian crisis is no longer a purely Syrian affair. Its wider dimension was highlighted on Feb. 4, when Russia and China cast their veto at the U.N. Security Council, [...]

The Assassination of Anwar Al-Awlaki On Friday, Sept. 30, Yemen announced that a Hellfire missile fired from a CIA-operated drone had killed Sheikh Anwar al-Awlaki, in the north of the [...]