Only two Iraqis were killed in an unusually light day of violence. Meanwhile, the Iraq government has freed the leader of Asa'ib al-Haq or the League of the Righteous. Qais al-Khazali, the leader of Asa'ib al-Haq, was ostensibly released as part of a loose deal that...
New revelations about two documents leaked to the Times of London to show that Iran is working on a "nuclear trigger" mechanism have further undermined the credibility of the document the newspaper had presented as evidence of a continuing Iranian nuclear...
In describing his nightmarish vision of history as "eternal return," the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche averred: "What if a demon crept after you one day or night in your loneliest solitude and said to you: 'This life, as you live it now and...
Updated at 6:30 p.m. EST, Jan. 1, 2010 Although the New Year's holiday has tamped down casualty reports from Iraq, other news made the international media. Among them was an independent analysis of civilian deaths and the Iraqi government's displeasure with the...
The confrontation that took place in the streets of several large cities in Iran on the occasion of Ashura has brought the acrimonious political fight among the Islamic Republic's elite into focus in significantly different ways than before. Not only did many...
While the government of Iran reels under the continuing pressures of a popular uprising, whose character is inexorably changing from protest at a rigged election, contrived by the ambitious and obscurantist Revolutionary Guard, into a challenge to the Islamic...
U.S. intelligence has concluded that the document published recently by the Times of London, which purportedly describes an Iranian plan to do experiments on what the newspaper described as a "neutron initiator" for an atomic weapon, is a fabrication,...
