By Angelina Jolie KHANKE, Iraq — I HAVE visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like the suffering I’m witnessing now. I came to visit the camps and informal settlements where displaced Iraqis and Syrian refugees are desperately seeking shelter from the fighting...

By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal When Adolf Hitler ordered the walls of the German capital of Berlin to be redecorated with a Nazi party poster -- the first-ever anti-Semitic poster which invited “good” German citizens to boycott Jewish traders on 1st of April 1933 - nobody thought it was...

(Al Arabiya News)- Many have cheered for the sudden Israeli strike which on Sunday killed six Hezbollah members and a general in the Iranian revolutionary guards who, for some reason, were secretly present in Syria's Quneitra. The cheering expresses anger and indignation and many...

By Dr. Awad Al Sulaiman; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- How provoking seeing professional criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu giving his sincere condolence for victims of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo Fifty countries...

By Hussein Ibish (The National)- United States’s strategy in the campaign against ISIL, particularly in Syria, is reaching a crisis point. On the ground, the limitations of the current approach are becoming clear. And politically in Washington, the issue appears to be...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The newly-elected president of Syrian National Coalition, Khaled Khoja, would face huge challenges, as he would manage a torn apart coalition that has many conflicts among its members,...

The Saudi government, like the rest of the oil exporting countries, has lost 50 percent of its daily revenues ever since the price of the barrel dropped below $60. This shocker is only momentary. The Saudi government is wealthy enough to compensate for the shortfall and reduce some...

By Dr. Awad Al-Sulaiman; Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- The United States and the West in general, are now certain that Sunni Muslims are the source of terrorism in the whole world, and therefore they are exerting great efforts in fighting Sunnis to combat...

In her recently published memoir   Hard Choices,   former Senator Hillary Clinton recounts the meeting, nine days after the election of 2008, when President-elect Barack Obama first asked her to be his secretary of state. He “presented a well-considered argument,” she writes,...

(Reuters) - With minorities facing death and persecution at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , Lebanon's Christians must lay aside their rivalries and agree on who should fill the vacant presidency, a leading Druze politician has warned. Walid Jumblatt, the...

With American bombs again falling over Iraq—this time striking Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, recently renamed the “Islamic State”) positions near the Kurdish city of Irbil—the White House is finally bowing to the inevitable conclusion that this terror group poses a...

Have Hezbollah and Iran clashed with the Syrian regime over their support for Gaza? ( Al Jazeera ) - There   has been some rather bizarre speculation of a rift between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the one hand, and Iran and Hezbollah on the other. The rumours have been...

I WILL never know when or why Hakim Anza, a Syrian rebel commander whom I had once trusted, decided to betray me. I would hazard a guess that three years of savage war, combined with reports — rampant in every bazaar of northern Syria — of huge sums paid for the...

The rise of jihadists in Iraq has set the West on edge, but Damascus sees it is an opportunity to legitimise its battle against rebels and promote it as a war on "terror". President Bashar al-Assad's regime has repeatedly denied the existence of a revolt seeking political...

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 (Writing by Abdullah Raja; Transation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL-(Zaman Alwasl)- If Ahmad Jarba, the President of the National Coalition, and Mostafa Sabbagh, the former Secretary General left the competition for the Coalition presidency...

(By Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Reuters coverage of the Syrian Presidential election has drawn attention to the extent of mistakes, unclear and superficial dealing with events and Syrian revolution, accompanied with ignorance and...

(By Adnan Abdelrazak; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) By the end of this month, Jarba’s presidency for the Coalition would come to end, and it is expected to have a wave of conflict, discussion, dividing and distrust among the Coalition’s members, where...

(By Abdul Aziz Al Tammo; Translation by Dani Murad) The Kurds in Syria are indigenous people who inhabited their historical land, and the west part of their land (Kurdistan) was combined with the modern Syrian state in 1920 in accordance with The...

The global media headlined on June 3 a political exercise conducted in Assad regime-controlled areas of Syria. Most reports described it as Syrian presidential elections with three candidates and a likely winner, the incumbent Bashar al-Assad. The exercise was illustrated with...