Since his United Nations speech last month demanding Palestinian statehood, Western media accounts have highlighted the hero's welcome received by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas when he returned to the West Bank.

Often overlooked in press coverage of the issue is the problem ...

Read more: Abbas Could Be Next Domino to Fall

Geopolitically, a trip to Iran could not come at a better time. Iran is an emerging power seeking to exploit the vacuum created by the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq, which is scheduled to conclude in a little more than three months. Tehran also plays a major role along its eastern border, ...

Read more: Geopolitical Journey: Iran at a Crossroads

On September 23, 2011, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud 'Abbas submitted Palestine's application for full UN membership. The PA maintains that it had no choice but to make this move, in light of the impasse in the negotiations with Israel, the latter's refusal to halt the settlements, ...

Read more: The Implications of the Palestinian UN Bid

"...critics say that theocrats in Tehran intend to use the mosque to establish a recruiting center for the militant Shia Muslim group, Hezbollah in Europe..."

The city council of Copenhagen has given its final approval for the construction of the first official "Grand Mosque" in the Danish capital. ...

Read more: Danish Mega-Mosque Funded by Iran

STRATFOR does not normally involve itself in domestic American politics. Our focus is on international affairs, and American politics, like politics everywhere, is a passionate business. The vilification from all sides that follows any mention we make of American politics is both inevitable and ...

Read more: Obama's Dilemma: U.S. Foreign Policy and Electoral Realities

In what perhaps can be heralded as a turning point in Russia's Middle East policy, seemingly coordinated statements have recently been sounded in important settings and the media by senior Russian figures (leading experts on the Middle East, politicians, and even the president himself). These ...

Read more: The Arab Spring and Russian Policy in the Middle East

When I visited Europe in 2008 and before, the idea that Europe was not going to emerge as one united political entity was regarded as heresy by many leaders. The European enterprise was seen as a work in progress moving inevitably toward unification — a group of nations committed to a common fate. ...

Read more: The Crisis of Europe and European Nationalism

US Readers: What you see in the UK is here now...   UK: Tower Hamlets – Not Just Another Peaceful EDL Demo

In the run up to the EDL demonstration we saw the march banned, we saw the EDL misrepresented and attackedin the press, we faced scaremongering from the far-Left and then, at the last ...

Read more: UK Law Enforcement Favors Sharia over Citizen Groups