[escenic_image id="5511961"]Jawad al-Bulani was appointed as Interior Minister of Iraq by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on 8 June 2006. He is a Shia…

[escenic_image id="5511950"]November 2009 may well be remembered as a tipping point in Yemen’s grinding five-year campaign against a loose coalition…

[escenic_image id="5512290"]The reactions and issues that were raised, within the United States and beyond, regarding Obama’s decision of sending 30…

[escenic_image id="5511958"] Joshua Craze and Mark Huband Hurst & Company, London 2009 There is perhaps no combination less familiar to the…

[escenic_image id="5511971"]Sayed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the son of the cleric Sayed Mohammad Ali, was one of the leaders of the Islamic Dawa…

[escenic_image id="5511953"]The Houthi phenomenon belongs to the Zaidi school of thought, which dates back to 1986. This school of thought first…

[escenic_image id="5511451"] "I am faced by many challenges, but I will do my best" This was one of the first statements issued by Yukiya Amano, the…

[escenic_image id="5511453"]The European Union’s (EU) share of gas in its consumption of primary energy has risen from 18% in 1990, to 24% in its…

[escenic_image id="5511454"] Peter Maass Alfred A Knopf 2009 In The Pearl, the 1947 novella by the American novelist John Steinbeck, an…

[escenic_image id="5511133"]In recent months, no name became more associated publicly with the position of President of the European Union Council…