On November 28, the opportunity that the Muslim Brotherhood has waited for since 1928 came. The first round of elections in Egypt took place, and although the results are not yet in, the Brotherhood’s mammoth political operation blew away its competitors. A Brotherhood spokesman was honestabout ...

Read more: Egypt’s Defining Period Begins

Egyptians will go to the polls on Monday to take the first of several steps in voting for a new parliament. Up to 30 million of the nation’s 50 million eligible voters may take part in what one Western observer is callinga needlessly “complicated, contradictory and non-transparent” ...

Read more: Egyptians Go to the Polls

Letter to Senator Mark Kirk in support of amendment to Iran sanctions to block central banks continuing financial relations with the Iranian regime. See Mark Kirk's press release hereon his amendment to the Fiscal Year 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, which would impose crippling sanctions ...

Read more: Letter to Senator Mark Kirk | Support of Amendment Blocking Central Banking of Iran

Greece is an E.U., NATO and Eurozone country that has traditionally strong links with the Islamic world due to the geographical proximity with the Middle East and North Africa and the Ottoman rule that lasted four centuries, along with numerous historical encounters with Islam since the Middle ...

Read more: Radical Islam Passing through Greece

U.S. troops are in the process of completing their withdrawal from Iraqby the end-of-2011 deadline. We are now moving toward a reckoning with the consequences. The reckoning concerns the potential for a massive shift in the balance of power in the region, with Iran moving from a fairly marginal ...

Read more: Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle East

According to a report by the French daily Le Figaro, Bashar al-Assad is apparently aiming to destabilize Turkey, which has been supporting the predominantly Sunni Islamist leadership of opposition groups to the Syrian regime, by seeking to grant greater autonomy to the Kurdish population that ...

Read more: Syria, Turkey and the Kurds

Everyone is wondering about the next disaster to befall Europe. Italy is one focus; Spain is also a possibility. But these crises are already under way. Instead, the next crisis will be political, not in the sense of what conventional politician is going to become prime minister, but in the deeper ...

Read more: Europe's Crisis: Beyond Finance

Since the publication of the November 2011 IAEA report, which explicitly spotlights Iran's plans to build nuclear weapons, senior figures of the Iranian regime and the state-run media have begun to use threatening, defiant, and sometimes contemptuous language toward Israel and the United States.

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Read more: Iran Signals Its Readiness for a Final Confrontation