Epstein Secrets

f anything resembling a grand strategy, the Obama administration seemed, and still seems, primarily animated by a desire to reduce its footprint in the Middle East. It is in Syria that the puzzling absence of American leadership has served to confirm just how important the United States still is. Without U.S.

is 'beyond chutzpah,' so to speak, especially from a moral standpoint. Asharq Al-Awsat "The planes were flying in the dark with no lights on"! Tariq Alhomayed 5 November 2012 -- A clip of a television interview with the Sudanese Defense Minister is currently being circulated, in which he comments on the Is

d the second-largest percentage of young people in the world, after sub-Saharan Africa -- has been a "huge factor" in this year's revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa, says Larry Diamond, an expert on democratization at Stanford University. About two-thirds of Arabs are 30 or younger -- a percent

sh Mark Landler The New Republic What Explains Fashionable Hostility Toward Israel? Martin Peretz Asharq Al-Awsat The Syrian-Israeli courtship Tariq Alhomayed The Washington Post Plotting a post-Assad road map for Syria David Ignatius Foreign Policy Saudi Arabia's youth unemployment Ellen Knickmeyer

d the second-largest percentage of young people in the world, after sub-Saharan Africa -- has been a "huge factor" in this year's revolutions across the Middle East and North Africa, says Larry Diamond, an expert on democratization at Stanford University. About two-thirds of Arabs are 30 or younger -- a percent

sh Mark Landler The New Republic What Explains Fashionable Hostility Toward Israel? Martin Peretz Asharq Al-Awsat The Syrian-Israeli courtship Tariq Alhomayed The Washington Post Plotting a post-Assad road map for Syria David Ignatius Foreign Policy Saudi Arabia's youth unemployment Ellen Knickmeyer