Forum: Middle East

1. Turkey has seen riots recently in the past few days by thugs mainly from the secular left, but also including communists, atheists, supporters of...

Muntadher al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist on trial for throwing his shoes last year at then-President George W. Bush, said the former American...

By Jeffrey Fleishman and Raed Rafei January 8, 2009 Reporting from Cairo and Beirut -- Face splotched in blood, eyes closed, mouth aslant, the...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/washington/11iran.html?_r=1&hp

Ahmadinejad blames US military meddling for market collapse NEW YORK, Sept 23, DAWN: Iran’s president blamed US military interventions around the...

In his August 4, 2008 column in the liberal Arab e-journal Elaph, Saudi columnist Saleh Al-Rashed argued that the Gulf states should urge the West to...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF20Ak02.html "Middle East serves US some humble pie By Sreeram Chaulia Since World War II, the...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JF21Df01.html "India tiptoes to the new Middle East By M K Bhadrakumar DELHI - The Middle East took...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JF17Ak04.html Iraq takes a turn towards Tehran By Sami Moubayed "DAMASCUS - A popular Iraqi joke...

War on Iran: Law the first casualty By Kaveh L Afrasiabi "So foul a sky shall not clear without a storm," wrote William Shakespeare in the play...

Russia sees it as inadmissible to hold Iraqi children in the military prisons of the US-led coalition force. This came in a statement by the...

"The US army, navy, air force and marines have all prepared battle plans and spent four years building bases and training for "Operation Iranian...

Mind your (terror) language By Khody Akhavi WASHINGTON - From the people who brought you the "war on terror" and the "axis of evil" comes a new...

"On February 15, 2003, ordinary citizens around the world poured into the streets to protest President George W Bush's onrushing invasion of Iraq....

There was a time when Britian had unrestricted control over Iran oil sources. With overthrow of the Shah of Iran that changed. Now the...

"Bush was expected to press the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for an early meet to raise oil production. (OPEC is scheduled to...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/JE15Dh01.html "...The East is rising. At the least it will demand parity with the West and perhaps more. But...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JC29Ag01.html "....There is reason to believe, however, that it was in the month of February that the...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JE10Dj05.html "Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union...

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=512850 "The tenuous bond between the Arab and the non-Arab Muslim has, over the centuries,...