US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi is pushing his idea of forming a joint Arab force to face common challenges that threaten Arab national security, as he puts it. He says that such a force would be defensive, since it is not the intention of Egypt or Gulf states to launch

It is not clear how Yemeni President Abed Rabboh Mansour Hadi has managed to elude his Houthi captors and escape from besieged Sanaa to arrive in the southern city of Aden. Was his release from house arrest facilitated by the Houthis, or was he assisted by his presidential guard

Jordan is a wounded nation in the wake of the brutal execution of Muath Kasasbeh, the Jordanian pilot who was captured by Islamist militants when his fighter jet crashed near Raqqa, in Syria, on December 24. Intensive efforts to secure his release reached a dead-end when the so-

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi is the first to admit that the war on terror will be long and painful. In the wake of last week’s deadly attacks against his troops in Arish, in northern Sinai, Egyptians are accepting the fact that winning the war against Islamist r

More than a week has passed since the Houthis escalated their takeover of Yemen by besieging and then forcing their way into the presidential palace in Sanaa. It was a symbolic conquest because the militants had already spread their control over much of the capital during the pa

It is not clear whether Israel knew it was targeting top Hizbollah and Iranian military brass that were in a convoy on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. Sunday’s helicopter strike killed at least seven people, including top commanders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

The failure last week of a Palestinian/Arab bid to pass a resolution at the UN Security Council, essentially setting a deadline to end the Israeli occupation and allowing for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, has triggered a series of reactions that threaten to dr

The Middle East was in the eye of geopolitical storms in 2014, and is certain to continue to be the focal point of international and regional attention in 2015. From the crises in Syria and Iraq to the international war on Islamist militants, to the audacious Houthi takeover of