Will Mecca remain the reflection of the Muslim world or become a concrete parking lot?

The rapid ticking of the Iran nuclear clock also marks an increasingly dark hour for the United States and its closest allies and partners, because it coincides with a third clock that Pollack did not imagine in 2004: the timetable of retreat set in motion by Barack Obama.

President Obama is right to send troops to advise African forces going after the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.

Submission is a central theme in the Muslim religion, so certain things need to change drastically if Egypt does not want their new regime to morph into a dictator as well.

As memory of past tragedies fade, many Australians question their participation in the war on terror. Whereas three years ago, the Australian mission in Afghanistan was relatively popular, polls now show almost two-thirds of Australians want their troops withdrawn from Afghanistan.

A review of Henner Fürtig's Iran's Rivalry with Saudi Arabia between the Gulf Wars.

President Obama is likely to pay a real political cost for his important message about the freedom of religion enshrined in the Constitution, in the context of the planned construction of an Islamic community center near ground zero.

Those who reference 1979 when trying to make sense of Egypt must go beyond the Islamic Revolution. It was a year when the political tectonic plates of the region shifted violently and profoundly.