The sustained aerial bombardment of a countrys capital city and other cities by other countries, as has been the case with Yemen today, warrants immediate and forceful condemnation by the UN Security Council as a breach of international peace and security under Chapter VII. Yet, not only the UNSC has failed to live up to its duties in this case,...

BEIRUT The meltdown in Yemen is pushing the Middle East dangerously closer to the wider regional conflagration many long have feared would arise from the chaos unleashed by the Arab Spring revolts. What began as a peaceful struggle to unseat a Yemeni strongman four years ago and then mutated into civil strife now risks spiraling into a full-blown ...

[caption id="attachment_156054" align="alignright" width="185"] Security forces attacking inmates inside Bahrains Jaw prison, March 10, 2015.[/caption] On March 6, on the fourth anniversary of Saudi troops entering Bahrain, theShiites of Bahrain participated inrallies, led by Al WefaqNationalIslamicSociety, in the cities of Manama and Sitra. While ...

Iran has denied having a role in Bahrains uprising after a court in the Persian Gulf kingdom handed prison sentences to 14 individuals over links to the Islamic Republic. A Bahraini court recently gave jail terms to 14 men after convicting them of spying and receiving military training from Iran. The court condemned 12 of the 14 individuals to life ...

NEW YORK CITY The work of Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat, whose photographs, films and video installations deal with gender, politics and religion in the Islamic world, has been heralded by art critics and collected by major museums. Although Neshat has lived in the United States since the 1970s, her work has most often been focused on the lives ...

DUBAI: Pro-democracy demonstrators clashed with police inBahrainThursday as they marked the third anniversary of an Arab Spring-inspired uprising that was crushed with the help of Saudi-led troops, witnesses said. It was the first of three days of protests called by the Shiite-led opposition to mark Friday's anniversary as they seek to give new momentum ...

Nasim The speaker of Irans Parliament (Majlis) blamed Washington and Tel Aviv to have been trying to render the regions revolutions from their course in a way to benefit Zionist Regime, calling Israel as the cancer of the Middle East. In his address to the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) on Friday, Larijani expressed Islamic Republic Support for ...

A U.S. delegation walked out of the ceremony to celebrate Tunisia's new constitution on Friday in protest statements made by the representative of Iran accusing the United States of undermining the Arab Spring uprisings. What was intended to be a ceremony honoring Tunisias achievements was used by the Iranian representative as a platform to denounce ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After 2 1/2 years of civil war in Syria, President Barack Obama's larger policy is in disarray even as his administration, with help from Russia, averted a military showdown for the time being. In an address to the American people, Obama said he was working with U.S. allies to "provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined that the western states are angry at the independence and awakening of the regional countries as Islamic Awakening can awaken other nations. "The Islamic Awakening move started in the (regional) countries but the western states which couldnt tolerate the independence of other countries ...

TEHRAN, Aug.25 (MNA) Thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets in a march for democratic reform outside the capital Manama, 10 days after a police crackdown on a similar demonstration organized online by activists inspired by the Egyptian protests. The protesters marched west of the capital on Friday, protesting against the stringent new laws that ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Libya's Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul-Razzaq al-Greidi in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian appreciated Tehran for its assistance to Tripoli, and said the Libyan nation will not allow the revolution to be deviated from its main path. "The Libyan nation has had difficult years and has dedicated many martyrs ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior member of Bahrain's al-Wefaq National Islamic Society announced that different Bahraini revolutionary groups are due to hold a meeting in the near future to assess previous talks with the al-Khalifa regime. "The revolutionary groups will soon hold a meeting to evaluate the talks which have been held with al-Khalifa officials ...

(AhlulBaytNewsAgency) - Head of the Anti-Zionist Party of France said the Islamic Republic of Iran follows the Divine principles of Islam and will not attack any country unless it is attacked. Yahya Ghavasemi made the remark in an interview with the French website PASL.info, adding that while he would like it (Irans attack on Israel) to happen, based ...

[caption id="attachment_36292" align="alignright" width="210"] Bahrainis hold an anti-regime protest in a suburb of Manama, June 15, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Bahraini political activist underlined that the people of his country are determined to continue their anti-government protests until their rightful demands are met. The revolutionary ...

By Arutz Sheva Arab countries want to see Iran contained, but they won't help in the effort, a report says A report in the Guardian Thursday said that senior American military officials have warned Israel that if Jerusalem carries out an attack on Iran, it should not expect any help from Arab countries in the Middle East. According to the report,...

By The Guardian Arab spring has left US-friendly rulers in region nervous about possible impact of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear programme US militarycommanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action againstIranwould severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against the Iranian ...

By China Daily TEHRAN - A senior Iranian official said that Israel would lose at least 10,000 troops in the event of a military strike on the Islamic republic, Press TV reported on Sunday. "If the Israelis attack, Iran's deterrent power would deal a mortal blow to them and the Israeli death toll would not be less than 10,000. Therefore, they ...

This article was written byJennifer Rubin for The Washington Post blogs on July 23, 2012.Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective. Both the Obama administration and outside foreign policy experts are struggling to understand and predict the course of the Arab Spring. Much of ...