[caption id="attachment_55248389" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki gives a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (unseen) in…
[caption id="attachment_55248393" align="alignnone" width="620"]Violence at a rally as part of a fresh week of protests called, "Steadfastness in Martyrs' Loyalty" in Cairo, Egypt on January 31, 2014…
[caption id="attachment_55248380" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemen's President Abd-Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (C) shows the book of the national dialogue at the end of a conference aimed at drafting a…
[caption id="attachment_55248406" align="alignnone" width="620"] Beirut's Ottoman-era Grand Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government. (Joseph Barrak/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]
Ten car bombings…
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[caption id="attachment_55248228" align="alignnone" width="620"] Heavy clouds are seen over the center of Riyadh, on November 17, 2013. (FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Saudi Arabia has…
[caption id="attachment_55248305" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iran's president Hassan Rouhani addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, 2014. (ERIC PIERMONT/AFP/Getty Images)[…
[caption id="attachment_55248297" align="alignnone" width="620"] Morocco's King Mohammed VI. (AZZOUZ BOUKALLOUCH/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]
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[caption id="attachment_55248290" align="alignnone" width="620"] US President Barack Obama waits to deliver his the State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 28, 2014…
The standoff in the Hormuz is not simply a question of whether Tehran can survive economic pressure, but whether Washington can sustain the pressure at an acceptable cost.
The Strait of Hormuz is now poised to become the primary arena of confrontation, with Iran relying on speedboat-driven guerrilla warfare to confront the US navy.
Former regime soldiers are stuck in limbo, as their undocumented status prevents them from working, travelling, and curbs family members' access to education, healthcare and social services