In US-Iran war, willpower could trump firepower

Washington and Tel Aviv may think the key to ending Iran's regime is to kill its missile bank and capabilities, but sometimes strategy matters more than hardware

Bilal Saab

Reflections from the Dead Sea

[caption id="attachment_55241881" align="alignnone" width="620"] US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) is joined by Israeli President Shimon Peres (L) and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the…

Mina Al-Oraibi

Egypt Conspires Against Itself

[caption id="attachment_55241375" align="alignnone" width="620"] One of the fourteen Egyptian NGO workers accused of receiving illegal foreign funding stands inside a cage during the trial in Cairo…

Mahmud El-Shafey

An Unofficial Boy's Club

[caption id="attachment_55241749" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian Mehan Javid registers her candidacy for the upcoming presidential election at the interior ministry in Tehran on May 9, 2013…

Jamileh Kadivar

Algeria's Cloudy Future

[caption id="attachment_55241707" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Algerian woman leaves a voting booth before casting her vote at a polling station in Algiers during local elections on November 29…

Farah Souames

Al-Qaeda's air war in Yemen

[caption id="attachment_55241688" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Yemeni security forces inspect the scene where a Russian-made Yemeni military jet crashed into a residential district of the capital…

Nasser Arrabyee

Going AWOL?

[caption id="attachment_55241645" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Syrian protesters hold banners referring to the international conference on the Syrian crisis being held in Paris during a…

David Andrew Weinberg

A Toxic Fog of War

[caption id="attachment_55241672" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Israeli man tries a gas mask at a distribution centre in Or-Yehuda, south of Tel Aviv on February 28, 2010 (YEHUDA RAIZNER/AFP…

James Spencer

Blowing up the Al-Nusra Front

[caption id="attachment_55241623" align="alignnone" width="620"] AK-47 machine guns hang in a shelter for Syrian rebels in the Salaheddine district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on April 12,…

Tam Hussein

Sibling Rivalry

[caption id="attachment_55241514" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Egyptians campaign for presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh, a former Muslim Brotherhood member, in Nasr City, Cairo, on…

Stephen Glain

Choose Your Words Wisely

[caption id="attachment_55241444" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Egyptian protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Cairo against sexual harassment on February 12, 2013. KHALED DESOUKI…

Ahmed Kadry