It is only a matter of time before jihadis in al-Qa’ida-type groups that have taken over much of eastern Syria and western Iraq have a violent impact on the world outside these two countries. The road is open wide to new attacks along the lines of 9/11 and 7/7, and …

MONEY can buy many things: luxury, influence, security—and even time. How frustrating, then, to be vastly rich but never quite to get what you want. Such is the dilemma faced by the world’s richest family, the Al Sauds of Saudi Arabia. Their kingdom has sold the rest of the world …

Stephen Lees, a long-term Conservative activist, has tweeted that all Muslims should be expelled from Britain, and all mosques demolished. His Tweet came a few minutes after he tweeted a link to a Telegraph article entitled “Head teachers raise ‘serious concerns’ over Islamic school take-over”. Mr Lees describes himself on Twitter …

Foreign policy is a critical component in the lives, conduct, and governance of all nation-states. But it has become even more significant in recent years as interstate relations have grown ever more complex. The inexorable rise in the number of international players — including multilateral organizations, nonstate actors, and even …

As you reach Maadi Military Hospital on the outskirts of Cairo, a soldier guarding the main door asks you about the room you intend to visit. In this hospital near the Nile, resides ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Today, Mubarak will celebrate his 86th birthday. He is expected to make …

It would be an understatement to say that Iran does not have an interest in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held April 30, and far too simplistic to conclude that Tehran is backing the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for a third term. The Iran-Iraq relationship is a complex mosaic of …

 Conservative local election candidate who tweeted that it was good to be anti-Islam and that the Islam was the “religion of rape”, has had to resign just weeks after being chosen to represent the party in the Brentwood local elections. David Bishop, who was due to stand as the Conservative …

Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, in a gathering for the birth anniversary of Imam Baqir (a), expressed the importance of motivating those who do well with a show of appreciation. His eminence stated: “Steps which are taken to gain the satisfaction of Allah and are executed in the bounds of the divine …

The mystery has deepened over the exact contents of the cargo on-board Flight MH370 when it disappeared eight weeks ago. It has now emerged the Malaysia Airlines plane was loaded with items which have not been made clear on the publicly-released manifest. It is known the aircraft was carrying 4.566 tonnes …

Today my four years at the Lebanese American University were summed up with a one-hour event hosting the American ambassador in Lebanon, David Hale. As I was sitting in the event questions were going backward and forward about how the US will carry out the tasks on its agenda in …