Following the withdrawal of the US and NATO from Afghanistan, and the chaos left behind because of the Biden administration’s shockingly bad planning, the Islamist militants who ruled from 1996 until 2001 have returned to power. Before we ask what the future may hold for the people of the new …

A brief Facebook exchange with a proponent and activist of a new theoretical fad to “totally re-Islamize” knowledge. I had a very interesting and engaging Facebook conversation with an academic person, Syed Farid AlAtas, in Malaysia, perhaps a university teacher of Social Studies he was, on his belief that we …

Environ 2 000 manifestants, selon des observateurs, ont dénoncé dimanche à Tunis “le pouvoir aux mains d’un seul homme”, disant redouter “un retour à la dictature de Ben Ali”, après l’adoption cette semaine par le président Kaïs Saïed de mesures exceptionnelles. “La légitimité passe par le vote.” Les manifestants présents …

One of the problems with capitalism is that it is driving us towards disaster. Greed is good? Adam Smith (1723-1790) maintained that individual self-interest can and should be the principle guiding our economic behavior . He told the readers of his book “The Wealth of Nations”, that, as if guided …

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem warned on Friday evening that any attack by Israel on Lebanon will be met with a response, and that its weapons are ‘locked and loaded.’ Any attack by Israel on Lebanon will be met with a response from Hezbollah, Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said …

At Erbil conference, participants also urge rebuilding ties with the country’s dispossessed Jewish diaspora; normalization remains a crime under Iraqi law In an unprecedented plea for regional reconciliation, over 300 prominent Iraqis called for their country to normalize ties with Israel on Friday night. “We demand full diplomatic relations with …

‘The Palestinian people are in need of this money, especially our great people under siege in Gaza,’ top Abbas adviser says The Palestinian Authority has called on Sudan’s government to hand over assets that it seized from Hamas as part of a recent crackdown on the terror group. Hussein al-Sheikh, …

2 soldiers wounded during overnight clashes likely hit by friendly fire; IDF chief says raids prevented ‘significant terror attacks’ within Israel Members of a Hamas cell that was targeted in a series of raids on Sunday night and Monday morning are likely still on the loose, though the Israel Defense …

Russian gas giant Gazprom has turned down an option to maximize gas shipments to Europe as the continent faces a looming energy crisis amid surging natural gas prices. Gazprom did not book any of the additional capacity available in transit pipelines running through Ukraine in auctions for October, the state-run …

The Syrian city of Daraa is frequently dubbed “the cradle of the revolution” because it witnessed the first protests against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011. After the unrest turned to armed revolt and the rebels were later defeated there in 2018, they struck a deal unlike any other in Syria: …