Top Arab leaders stayed away from a summit conference convened in Baghdad Thursday that Iraq's Shia Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki had hoped would be a milestone in his government's effort to restore Iraq's stature as a regional leader.
The summit, (...)
The tragic death of Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin, two celebrated American reporters in chaotic Syria last month, has generated due tributes from colleagues and readers who admired their Middle East coverage over more than two decades.
Shadid, (...)
A new law by the Islamic Republic of Iran to abolish stoning to death for adulterers passed last month has been received with a lot of skepticism in the West and little attention in the Arab and Islamic world.
But the ruling could have a (...)
The stage has finally been set for the long expected inauguration of direct ties between the United States and the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamic group. The Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) won nearly half of the seats in (...)
As Egyptians continue debating the political system they want following the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak's regime, the importance of building state and NGO institutions and introducing limits on the political power of competing actors is well (...)
For three decades ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resisted calls to normalise relations with Iran, which were severed after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled pro-US Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
Mubarak did little to disguise his (...)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday posed a question to participants at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum on whether the Arab spring of revolutions will finally produce truly free societies with economic opportunities for their (...)
SANAA: Saudi Arabia has launched a large military incursion across the border into northern Yemen, using fighter jets and artillery bombardments to try to end a Shia rebellion inside its troubled southern neighbor, Arab diplomats and the rebels said (...)