Iran expressed concern about the dropping price of crude oil after it hit roughly $101 per barrel last Friday, according to Iran’s PressTV. The report said that the Iranian oil minister Rostam Qasemi was expected to request an emergency meeting…
After years of internal division, Palestinian political groups may be better able to reconcile after the resignation of Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad. Despite Fayyad’s support from the West, Fayyad has been generally disliked by many in the Palestinian political scene.…
The Syrian opposition is appearing increasingly fractured and complicated, even as some in the West seek to publicly prop up the rebel leadership. With internal divisions already prevalent, the recent announcement that one of the major backers of the fight…
The Palestinians have refused to hold direct peace talks with Israel for more than two years unless Israel meets their preconditions, and if the Palestinian people have any say in it, that won’t change any time soon. A new poll…
If you missed all that happened last week in the Middle East, you also missed hearing that violence in the region is rising and that Iran is causing more trouble with their nuclear program. Those events affect your world, and…
The news today can seem like one unrelated event after another. Or perhaps like a whole slew of repeated events in which the same sad problems just resurface. But what if the things happening today are more than that? What…