The Egyptian government announced Tuesday it would increase its fuel exports to the Gaza Strip by sending emergency diesel supplies and raising the free 17 megawatts it currently provides to 22 megawatts. Read More »

Yemenis went to the polls on Tuesday to vote in a preordained election that ushered Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power after 33 years. Read More »

A U.S. federal judge on Thursday sentenced Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, better known as the underwear bomber, to life in prison for attempting to blow up an airplane en route to Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009 with explosives sewn into his underwear. Read More »

It is a struggle to decide who, if anyone, has a claim to U.S. foreign aid dollars. It is, after all, money earned by American taxpayers and sent to people who didn’t earn it, at least not in the traditional sense. Read More »

Three months after the Libyan rebels brought down Moammar Qaddafi, a report released in January warns policymakers of the rising influence of al-Qaeda in a post-Qaddafi Libya rife with power vacuum opportunities. Read More »

To mark the 23rd anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban sent an inauspicious message to U.S. and NATO security forces. Read More »

During a rally to mark the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran over the weekend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that Tehran will reveal “several major achievements in the nuclear domain” within days. Read More »

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Tehran for the dual attacks against Israeli embassies in India and Georgia on Monday. “Iran, which is behind these attacks, is the greatest exporter of terrorism in the world,” Netanyahu said. Read More »

Barbies and The Simpsons dolls are banned in Iran, but not toy drones. Mocking requests by President Obama to return the U.S. Read More »

Obama administration officials were absolutely venomous after the Russian (and Chinese) veto of the UN Security Council resolution draft on Syria. “Disgusting,” said U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice. Secretary of State Clinton called it a “travesty. Read More »

Mounting economic hardships plaguing northern Sudan have given political activist group “Change Now” a reason to believe that the Arab-African state is on the verge of its own revolution. Read More »

Israel is often in this position. Its enemies threaten it in unacceptable ways or commit acts of violence just under some unspoken-but-very-real threshold of tolerance (not Israel’s threshold, mind you, but that of the U.S., the UN or the EU). Read More »

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states this week recalled their envoys from Syria and expelled Syria’s envoys from their countries over “the increase in killing and violence in Syria, which has not spared children, old people or women with heinous Read More »

The USS Ponce, a lightly armed and slow-moving amphibious transport dock built in 1970, is about to be upgraded by the U.S. Navy. According to The Washington Post, it will become a forward staging base aimed at Iran. Read More »

For all the bluster by Americans, Israelis, Iranians and others, about if/when Israel might initiate military action against Iranian nuclear facilities, there are no tealeaves. Read More »

Nine months after signing a reconciliation deal, the leaders of rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas took their first major step towards forming a unity government. Read More »

Before a UN Security Council meeting to discuss a draft resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar al-Asad step down, a senior Russian diplomat called it a “path to civil war. Read More »

The current round of Israeli-Palestinian meetings in Jordan ended with a Palestinian decision to leave. “The Israelis brought nothing new in these meetings,” said one official, without bothering to note the obvious — neither did the Palestinians. Read More »

The UN-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), based in the Netherlands, will try four Hezbollah suspects in absentia for the 2005 murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, hopefully in 2012. Read More »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad officially launched HispanTV this week, a Spanish satellite television channel that will broadcast news, documentaries, and Iranian films 24 hours a day via cable or Internet, allowing viewers to watch from Read More »