The last few months in Iraq have been marked by periods of relative calm, interrupted by brutal suicide attacks mainly directed at government buildings. This is the new strategy of al Qaeda in Iraq,…

[escenic_image id="5513444"]One year has passed since Israel waged war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. It is a period long enough to test and evaluate the war, its effects and strategies of both…

[escenic_image id="5513458"]Only a few weeks ago, the Head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Sheikh Al-Ghamedi, expressed his support of the mixing of…

[escenic_image id="5513441"]Despite all the doubts provoked about him and although it was said that he was sent by the Intelligence Service of the Iraqi Army to spy on the Islamic Republic of Iran,…

This past August, Beitullah Mehsud, considered the top leader of the Pakistani Taliban, was sheltered in a farmhouse in the village of Zanghara in South Waziristan. He was reportedly receiving…

[escenic_image id="5512636"]Ambassador Chas Freeman is an American diplomat, author and writer. Most notably, he served as the United State’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 until 1992, during…

[escenic_image id="5512639"]At a seminar last month in one of the NASA buildings in Washington DC, a US defence and intelligence services analyst gave a PowerPoint presentation showing several war…

[escenic_image id="5510078"]While Yemen’s political unrest, its civil conflicts in the south and north, and its rising tide of al-Qaeda linked extremism capture headlines, the south Arabian country…

[escenic_image id="5511974"]Last week in Bahrain I listened to a very interesting speech, interesting for all the wrong reasons. It started with underlining the significance of ‘the establishment of…

[escenic_image id="5512380"]No sooner had the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council endorsed the appointment of Mohamed Ibraheem Al-Motawa as Secretary General of the Council, starting in March…