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News & Analysis

Middle East’s Two-bit Players Punching above Their Weight

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Jumada' al-Ula' 17, 14422021-01-01

Were it not for oil, most rulers in the Middle East would still be herding camels in the desert. Nobody would pay the slightest attention to them. Yet oil wealth has gone to their heads and they are acting way above their capacity. Their fall would be painful.

Daily News Analysis

Informational War post-Iran Strikes on US Bases in Iraq

Crescent International

Jumada' al-Ula' 26, 14412020-01-21

Daily News Analysis

Arab League summit: The dinosaur party at which most stayed away!

Crescent International

Shawwal 24, 14372016-07-29

Arab League summits are pretty pathetic affairs. Arabian rulers talk big but there is little action. Nothing can be expected from puppets but last week’s summit in Mauritania hit new lows!​​​​​​​

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Special Reports

New global architecture emerges out of ME chaos

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 23, 14372016-04-01

Major changes are underway in global politics as the US-led unipolar world comes to an end. A multipolar world is emerging in which new more robust players are active. Islamic Iran is a central component of this new arrangement.

Daily News Analysis

Refugee crisis evokes blatant Islamophobia in Europe

Crescent International

Dhu al-Qa'dah 25, 14362015-09-09

Why has the refugee crisis evoked such strong sentiments in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere? We look at the figures that provide clue to what is afoot...

Daily News Analysis

The Rahbar condemns takfiris and their backers

Crescent International

Safar 02, 14362014-11-25

The takfiri phenomenon that has erupted in the Middle East and parts of Africa is the creation of the imperialists and Zionists and their puppets in the Arab world. Addressing the issue, the Rahbar Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei asked the assembled scholars to deconstruct this latest menace to unity in the Muslim world.

Main Stories

Takfiris, Saudis and the struggle for the soul of Islam

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 08, 14362014-11-01

Despite the hype about fighting them, the US and its allies have nurtured the takfiris for nearly a decade to be used for the broader plan to dominate the Middle East.

Special Reports

US uses soft power in the Middle East

Akhmet Makhmoudov

Muharram 08, 14362014-11-01

The US uses a number of tools in its arsenal to advance its agenda in the Middle East. Soft power is one of them.

News & Analysis

Turkey’s 101-day ordeal with the takfiris

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Hijjah 06, 14352014-10-01

There is something bizarre in the manner in which 49 Turkish diplomats and employees of the Turkish Consulate in Mosul were released from the clutches of the takfiris.

Editorials

Questions about 9/11 even after 13 years

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Qa'dah 06, 14352014-09-01

Even 13 years after 911, most Americans refuse to accept the official version of the events. Architects, structural engineers and academics continue to raise pertinent questions that the Washington warlords refuse to answer.

Daily News Analysis

Democracy and the Perils of Islamic Implementation: The Case of Hamas

Crescent International

Dhu al-Qa'dah 01, 14352014-08-27

Excerpt from the forthcoming book, Islamic Resistance to Imperialism by Eric Walberg.

Main Stories

War on Gaza and the response of Muslim regimes

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Shawwal 04, 14352014-08-01

It is revealing that Muslim regimes in the Middle East that eagerly give billions to takfiri terrorists to kill fellow Muslims are completely silent about zionist killings of Palestinians.

Special Reports

End of Sykes-Picot will not usher a new ME

Zafar Bangash

Shawwal 04, 14352014-08-01

The ISIS takfiris may have ripped the Sykes-Picot agreement of a century ago but what they plan to replace it with is hardly what Muslims are looking for.

Main Stories

Meet al-Baghdadi, America's newest "poster boy"

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Ramadan 03, 14352014-07-01

The world has a new poster boy in al-Baghdadi. Some naive Muslims will be taken in by his brandishing a kalishnakov instead of the sword but it is important to look deeper. Emotional outbursts are no substitute for clear analysis and understanding.

Editorials

The emerging, new Muslim East

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 02, 14352014-05-01

The emerging, new Muslim East (aka the Middle East) is not the one Condoleezza Rice had envisioned; it is more confident and assertive and pursuing an agenda to serve the interests of the people rather than imperialist/Zionist powers.

News & Analysis

Egypt’s mass execution verdicts and trials

Ayman Ahmed

Jumada' al-Akhirah 01, 14352014-04-01

Even by the brutal standards of the Egyptian military, the mass death sentences in one case—529 people sentenced to death for the killing of one policeman—have sent shockwaves globally. The regime may be digging its own grave.

Opinion

Wa-al-Fajr wa-Layalin Ashr: The Islamic Revolution’s First Light of Day and the (dark) Ten Nights (of Arabian hostility)

Abu Dharr

Rabi' al-Thani 01, 14352014-02-01

This month marks the 35th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It also marks a nightmare for the illegitimate regimes in the Muslim East led by the Saudi clan.

Editorials

Real change in the Muslim East?

Crescent International

Rabi' al-Awwal 01, 14352014-01-02

It would be unrealistic to assume that Arabian dictatorships or their masters in Washington have really changed their behavior. They have been forced by circumstances to adopt a different posture but caution in dealing with them would be in order.

News & Analysis

The Middle East’s muddled alliances

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Dhu al-Qa'dah 25, 14342013-10-01

The tyrannical regimes in the Middle East are a bundle of contradictions. They are not sure who their friends or enemies are. While they are fighting each other, there are major contradictions in their relations pointing to extreme opportunism rather than policies based on principles.

News & Analysis

New political alignments in the Muslim East

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Rabi' al-Awwal 20, 14342013-02-01

The Muslim East has undergone radical change over the last two years. There are new political alignments that spell trouble for the US.

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