Friday’s car-bomb assassination of the Lebanese police intelligence chief has sparked renewed sectarian fighting in the capital of Beirut and northern part of the country, raising concerns that the Syrian conflict could spill into Lebanon. The Daily Star reported that…
The usually blunt Turkish foreign minister on Wednesday compared the situation in Syria to the massacres in Bosnia in the 1990s, fearing the repeat of an apology that came too late. Speaking of the United Nations working to stop the…
The ongoing crisis between Turkey and Syria has reached new heights in recent days, culminating with an authorization from the Turkish parliament for troops to enter Syria if necessary. According to Turkey’s Today’s Zaman publication, the resolution to allow Turkish…
Five Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian mortar fire on Wednesday, with Turkey firing back across the border in some of the highest tensions to date between the neighboring countries. The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet Daily News reported that the Turkish…
The Barack Obama administration had such high hopes for US relations with the Muslim world. Even Iran got an “open hand” of diplomacy back in the nascent days of the new American government. But the past week has shown that…
The Israeli government is advancing money transfers to the Palestinian Authority (PA) to help them “survive” economic struggles that have sparked numerous demonstrations in the West Bank and led to calls for ouster of Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad. Meanwhile, Fayyad…