US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid

It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make Continue reading →

Al Qaeda embedded with US-led rebels in Syria’s south

  DARAA, Syria – At first glance, all appears calm in this southern Syrian city where protests first broke out Continue reading →

Firefight in Golan changes Mideast rules

Read this article in Spanish, Turkish and Farsi. The exchange of missiles last week on the Syrian-Israeli border was anything but normal. Continue reading →

Terrorist capabilities laid bare in an Eastern Ghouta chemical lab

  Read this article in Spanish too. Last December, at a US military hangar near Washington DC, UN Ambassador Nikki Continue reading →

How US media spin-doctored Iran’s protests

  Read this article in Bosnian here. Barely a month ago, Iranians were amassing in the streets to protest against Continue reading →

Mideast Peacemaking is No Longer Made-in-America

Read this article in Indonesian. As 2017 comes to a close, the warring parties in Syria are moving towards reconciliation—but Continue reading →

Hezbollah doesn’t attack America, it’s the other way around

Read this article in French too. Western-backed militants are in retreat, Bashar al-Assad remains president, Hezbollah has stretched its wings Continue reading →

Israel’s Mideast reality check

Read this article in French, Arabic and Portuguese. Tel Aviv has had a bad few weeks. A once favorable regional balance Continue reading →