Experts debate Nigeria's Islamist threat
Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the bombing of three Nigerian churches on Christmas Day, as well as an earlier attack on the country's U.N. headquarters. Exper…
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Will Iran lash out at weak Israel?
How will Ayatollah Ali Khamenei react? This is surely the question Western policymakers are asking themselves over the latest standoff between Iran and the United States.
Iran's accusations will not affect U.S.-Israel relations: Meir Javedanfar
When it comes to identifying who killed Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Middle East analyst Meir Javedanfar says that there can only be assumptions. “In the mur…
MEDIA ALERT: Parliamentary elections in Egypt
CAIRO, EGYPT – Today marked the first time Egyptians would participate in one of many rounds of parliamentary elections since the end of former President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-ye…
Jesus Garcia-Luengos
Jesus Garcia-Luengos is a researcher at Spain's Institute of Studies on Conflict and Humanitarian Action (Iecah). He is an expert in evaluation and monitoring of development and h…
Libya after National Liberation
The Arab Spring has brought dramatic changes right across North Africa and the Middle East - nowhere more so than in Libya, where a civil war has swept away the former regime. Lib…
MEDIA ALERT: Egypt’s Coptic Christians and military clash
CAIRO, EGYPT – At least 24 people are dead after an overnight fight between Egypt’s Coptic Christians and military police on Sunday. Egypt's Interim Prime Minister Essam Shara…
Brinkmanship in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Over a year on from fiercely contested general elections, Bosnia-Herzegovina remains without a state-level government; an unfortunate distinction it shares with Belgium, towards w…
Suffocating in Iran
I left Iran early last time. Not because I wanted to, but because I couldn’t breathe. It was mid-December 1999, and the air was heavy with a thick black smog. My father and I, v…
MEDIA ALERT: Deadliest terrorist attack in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – A car bomb killed more than 70 people on Tuesday, October 4 in Somalia’s capital.
MEDIA ALERT: al-Qaeda cleric al-Awlaki killed in Yemen
YEMEN – Yemen Defense Ministry announced that Anwar al-Awlaki was killed with four others in Yemen today.
MEDIA ALERT: Saudi king allows women to vote
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – King Abdullah announced on Saudi television that women in his country would be allowed to vote for the first time ever and run for office in future electi…