On the first anniversary of the pro-democracy uprising in Bahrain, American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Middle East scholar Michael Rubin warns that Bahrain could be headed for a bloodbath with dangerous repercussions for the United States.

For the first time in 20 years, Saudi Arabia has named an ambassador to Iraq. For years the Saudis resisted U.S. entreaties to take this step, and the current relationship between these two most important Arab countries in the Gulf has not been warm, so the timing is curious and...

Upon the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led Friday prayers at Tehran University. His sermon would carry the weight of an American State of the Union address. With time, Khomeini and his successor Ali Khamenei designated a substitute prayer leader from amongst the regime hierarchy.

The importance of Iran’s March 2 parliamentary elections was not so much in their function to choose a new Majlis but rather because they were the first nationwide poll since widespread fraud during the 2009 presidential election sparked the largest protests Iran had witnessed since the Islamic Revolution.

Manuel Roig-Franzia went too far in accusing Marco Rubio of "embellishing" and questioning his place as a member of the exile community. You don't charge someone of lying without proof. And you don't question the core of someone's identity without a shred of evidence.

A pathbreaking study of both electronic and print coverage by the elite U.S. media during the second Palestinian uprising against Israel.

After Jordan, Bahrain is the Arab state in which the United States can least afford regime change.

The removal of a top Communist party official doesn’t tell us much.