By Dr. Tassos Symeonidis (RIEAS Academic Advisor) The recent Islamist outrages in France and Austria have again pushed the bitter crisis of Islamofascism to the fore. In the wake of…
Veteran politician Saad al-Hariri was appointed Lebanon’s Prime Minister for the fourth time. The 50 year-old Sunni leader stepped down from the post almost exactly a year ago amid mass…
Lebanon’s Prime Minister-Designate Mustapha Adib rendered his resignation even before taking office, after being unable to form a government of specialists to implement critically-needed reform. After saying he was “doomed…
Lebanon’s economic crisis has continued to deepen in recent months, with the national currency losing an astonishing 70% of its value since October. Even though a technocratic government was appointed…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended Washington’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran, as an effective tool to force a change in the regime’s actions. While addressing an event in…
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared patience over is running out over what the Islamic Republic regards inadequate international efforts, primarily by Europe, to salvage the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of…
Over the course of the past three and a half years, Israel's Intelligence Agency, Mossad, has provided information that has led to the discovery of weapons stockpiles belonging to the…
By Dr. Yossi Mansharof, expert on Revolutionary Iran, political Shiite Islam, transnational Shiite networks. The EU’s insistence on preserving the nuclear agreement with Iran and its persistent efforts to establish a mechanism for…