BY REESE ERLICH BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian peace has proven illusory, and simply getting the opposing sides to...
Aug 02, 2013
Iranians say US sanctions hit wrong target
BY REESE ERLICH TEHRAN — The election of moderate presidential candidate Hassan Rouhani has raised hopes here of...
Jul 26, 2013
Algiers Accords bind US to non-interference in Iran — and are always forgotten
BY REESE ERLICHTEHRAN — Hassan Rouhani spoke about the Algiers Accords in his first press conference as president...
Jul 26, 2013
Iran: Firmly behind the Assad regime
BY REESE ERLICH TEHRAN — Saeed Mohammad Husseini sat behind the counter at a store selling religious CDs...
Jul 16, 2013
Syrian Christians become kidnapping targets, flee to Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Syrian rebel group took credit for setting off a bomb in a supermarket parking...
Jul 10, 2013
Syria spillover into Lebanon furthers intra-Muslim conflict in Mideast
HERMEL, Lebanon — The strategic city of Qusayr in Syria has fallen to the Syrian Army, and the...
Jun 10, 2013
After latest violence, Egypt’s Coptic Christians say it’s the same old story
This is the fifth in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. CAIRO...
Apr 12, 2013
Q & A: How a revolution opened the door for Middle East extremists
BY LAUREN MADOW Chibli Mallat is a visiting professor at Yale Law School, as well as a professor...
Mar 22, 2013
Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia keep the protest movement alive
Editor’s Note: When Arab Spring protests broke out in Saudi Arabia in 2011, the government reacted quickly. It...
Mar 21, 2013
Q & A: US foreign policy lessons and failures along the Sunni-Shia divide
BY LAUREN MADOW Reza Aslan is a professor of religious studies at Drew University and a senior adjunct...
Mar 21, 2013