Saudi Regional Policy Total Failure

 All countries take the course of their foreign policy in various areas with a consideration of goals and potentials. In fact, there should be direct balance between the countries' potentials and their objectives. If a state works just against this pattern, it will step out of the line and...

Status of Factions of Taliban in Afghanistan

Afghanistan internal circles' debate over whether to admit the Taliban militant group to the country's official political scene has often proved heated and controversial. The inconsistent stances of the top government officials and the lawmakers on the issue are apparently indicative of the degree...

After Israeli Closure of Al Aqsa Mosque, Muslims Perform Friday Prayers Outside

 The Israeli regime prevented Palestinian worshipers from performing Friday prayers at al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem) for the first time since 1969, forcing them to pray at its gates. The closure was ordered by the Tel Aviv regime after two Israeli troops were killed by Palestinian...

Bin Salman's Difficult Journey to Saudi Throne

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz issued a surprise royal decree on June 21, dismissing Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and giving the post to his young son Mohammad bin Salman. The king's move marked his breaking with the Arab kingdom's royalty traditions which do not allow the ruler to install...

Amid Absence of Solution, Qatar Crisis Proves Costly for Both Sides

 As the Qatari diplomatic crisis with the Saudi-led Arab states crosses its first month, a wide range of developments in the two sides' relations continue to take place. The row started with an all-out Arab blockade over Doha. Mess in Qatar and other Arab countries' stock markets ensued....

Russian Role in Resolving Syrian Crisis

As a significant international power, Russia has played an active role in Syrian crisis during past three years. The Russian forces deployment into Syria in September 30, 2015 has improved the position of the Syrian army in its multi-fronted fight against an array of foreign-backed terrorist groups. Since...

ISIS, Secret of Chemical Attacks

According to reports published by international organizations, the ISIS terrorist group conducted at least 52 chemical weapons attacks in Syria and Iraq from 2013 to 2016. Addressing the issue, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman to the Russian foreign ministry, in a news conference said that gas attacks...

Israeli-American Puzzle Behind Peace Process

Being one of the most complicated challenges of the past and current centuries, the Palestinian cause has so far made many humanitarian organizations seek a solution to the conflict that guarantees the Palestinian people's rights. An array of arrangements has so far been proposed to settle the case,...

What Are Post-ISIS Mosul Challenges?

liberation of the Iraqi city of Mosul from ISIS marks a crucial stage in the fight against the terrorist group in the Iraqi territories. Once Iraqi armed forces totally cleanse the whole Nineveh province, the capital of which is Mosul, of the terrorists ISIS will sustain a working blow to its organizational...

US-Russia Relations Under Shadow of INF Treaty

In the last years of the Cold War and while the two superpowers, the US and Soviet Union, were looking quite fed up with flexing muscles for each other, the US President Donald Reagan of and USSR Secretary General Mikhail Gorbachev signed a treaty. Dubbed Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)...

Will ISIS Termination Mark Crisis End in West Asia?

The ISIS terrorist group was born in a time when after the eruption of the popular uprisings in the Arab countries the world expected to see emergence of post-revolution democracies in the West Asia region, largely built on the strength of new civil awareness rewarded to people by change waves. But instead...

Efforts Underway for Israeli-Arab Normalization Amid Tense Iranophobic Campaign

The Israeli media and officials, including the transportation and intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz, in past few days have called on the Arab countries to normalize diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime. Addressing the Herzliya Conference last week, Katz highlighted the need for expansion of...

Is US Relocating ISIS Terrorists to Afghanistan, Central Asia?

After a string of defeats in Iraq and Syria, ISIS Takfiri terrorists are now relocating to Afghanistan and neighboring states. ISIS terrorists have almost completely been routed in Iraq and they will be eliminated from their last bastion in Mosul soon while in neighboring Syria, they have virtually...

Failed Militarily, Saudis Seek Controlling Yemen�s Vital Port Through UN

The United Nations Security Council in a June 15 “presidential statement” warned against potential attack by the Saudi-led Arab military coalition against Al Hudaydah, Yemen’s Red Sea port city. This UNSC statement is deemed significant because during the over two years of the...

Quds Day marks a global awakening leading to Palestine's liberation

Palestine is holding strong, and the world is changing. This year’s International Quds Day has a new global context. The people of the world are peace-loving in their great majority, and the people of the world are seeing more clearly, than ever before, the true face of the USA.   By...

In what Areas Trump Policies are Different from Obama�s?

During the election campaign speeches, Donald Trump widely criticized the domestic and foreign policies of the former president Barack Obama. The criticism was so bitter that when he assumed the office in early January this year, the world expected to see from the new American leader a different...

Iran�s Anti-ISIS Missile Strikes Send Clear Message to Terrorists, Their Patrons

The Sunday night missile attacks on the ISIS terrorist group's positions in Syria's Deir ez-Zor by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were not simply a retaliation to the June 7 terrorist attacks in Tehran by the terrorist group that targeted the Iranian parliament and the shrine...

Yemen Crisis News Blackout Amid Arab Diplomatic Row

The crisis in relations of Qatar and the Saudi-led Arab bloc has been making headlines on the regional and international media during the past two weeks. The political crisis sparked following comments made by Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as well as other officials of the small Persian...

What�s Behind New US Sanctions Against Iran?

The US Senate approved 98-2 a bill that will impose large-scale non-nuclear sanctions on Iran. The legislature was proposed by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on May 25 under "Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017" draft. The bill, codenamed S.722, allows the US Senate...

Advantages, Challenges of Turkey�s Pro-Qatar Stance

Last week, a number of Arab governments including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt severed diplomatic ties with Qatar and demanded the Qatari citizens to leave their soil within 14 days, citing what they called Doha's support for terrorism as a reason for their measures. They also closed...

Saudi Arabia, Muslim Brotherhood: From Cooperation to Confrontation

The Saudi Arabian relations with the Muslim Brotherhood have always been challenging, experiencing many highs and lows over the time. Even a large part of the recent Saudi political crisis with Qatar is motivated by Riyadh anger at Doha's financial and ideological support for the Islamist movement...

Iraq�s Kurdistan Referendum: Inefficacious Course

ISIS terrorist group's occupation of Iraqi territories in 2014 and the subsequent troubles that made the central Iraqi government busy coping with the security issues encouraged Kurds to hold independence referendum across their autonomous region in north. However, their efforts to establish an independence...

Faith as the Essence of Invitation of the Prophets

By: Ayatullah Muhammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi The subject of the discussion is: Faith as the Essence of the Invitation of the Prophets (‘a). In order to clarify the subject, its importance and the pertinent discussions to be made, we shall make a short introduction: Introduction The emergence of...

Riyadh�s Regional Gamble May Result in Lose-Lose Situation

The four countries of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, and Egypt on Monday morning announced severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, making the issue rise to be a number-one topic of focus of the regional and international media in the past two days. In addition to the leaders of the main four countries...

28 Years Death Anniversary of Imam Khomeini (ra)

On 3rd June, 1989, the great Revolutionary leader, Imam Ruhullah Khomeini (ra), passed away. Millions of Iranians attended his funeral ceremony and till today there is no funeral ceremony that has seen such mammoth crowd of mourning people. Before the glorious 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran was a "milking...

ISIS Expansion to Southeast Asia: Poisonous Fruit of Saudi Arabian Trees

Days after eruption of the deadly clashes between the militants affiliated with ISIS terrorist group and the Philippines' security forces in the city of Marawi in the country's southern island of Mindanao, the media are talking about the black flag of the ISIS flying over some buildings in the...

As Ramadan comes to an end stay healthy

With only a few days left to go in the holy month of Ramadan, Muslims who observe the fast fall into two broad categories. Some are so used to the rhythms of fasting that it feels almost natural at this point. For others, the final stretch is psychologically and physically the hardest. This year poses...

Why Terrorists Target Europe?

The Manchester Ariana Grande concert suicide attack, that the ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for, like many other terror attacks in the heart of Europe in past few years sent a new warning signal to the Western leaders that terrorism, violence, and radicalism recognizes no geographical...

Bahraini Court Convicts Shiites� Spiritual Leader as Trump Meets Al Khalifa

Bahraini regime has issued an unjust verdict against top Islamic scholar Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim on the day the regime's King Al Khalifa was meeting US President Donald Trump in Riyadh. On Sunday, a Bahraini court sentenced, Sheikh Qassim, spiritual leader of the country's Shiite Muslims...

US Builds Pressure Tool Out of Alliance with Kurds

The US relations with Kurds in Syria and Iraq are turning controversial as Washington tries to boost ties with the ethnic group. Washington holds multiple goals behind its interactions with the Kurdish forces and at the same time avoids making it clear its measures in the Kurdish-inhabited regions of...