The New Middle East: Arab versus non-Arab Muslims; Sunni versus S

By Barry Rubin.  The new Middle East strategic battle is heating up and this is only the start. It has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with two more serious lines of battle: Arabs versus Persians and Sunni versus Shia Muslims.    ...

The trouble with being a benevolent dictator.

So are my predictions coming to pass? [ see story http://my.nowpublic.com/world/year-discontent-north-africa-and-arabia ]. However many of the rulers in North Africa and Arabia are eventually challenged to become more democratic, an interesting problem has arisen for the...

2010 (2010 started badly with horrendous attacks)

Spearhead Research Analysis2010 started badly with horrendous attacks---the attack on a Shia sect mourning procession and follow up arson attacks in Karachi and a suicide bombing attack on a village volley ball match in the western area. There have also been four drone...

US to exploit Iran unrest for sanctions

New Delhi: US President Barack Obama plans to focus fresh sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the military force that oversees its pursuit of nuclear weapons. The Revolutionary Guard has also been...

Karachi Carnage

The Carnage in Karachi was a double feature. First a suicide bomber blew himself up in the midst of a massive mourning procession during the Islamic month of Muharram. Such processions are taken out by the Shia sect of Islam so the immediate thoughts were that this was a...

Suicide Bomber Strikes Karachi: 40 dead, 95 injured

The Ashura - tenth day of Moharram procession was moving peacefully, as thousands of men and women - mourners remembering the sacrifices of Prophet Mohammad's family in Kerbala - commemorate the day each year in...

Where in our lives does religion belong?

Religion is a dicey subject. Along with politics it is known to be one of the two big no no's when trying to keep dinner conversation peaceful and civil.For most, the word religion means buildings (churches, temples, and mosques), beliefs, books (like the Bible, the Qur'an or...

Iran Suicide Bomber Kills 35, Revolutionary Guard Generals

In an unprecedented incident, 35 people including elite Islamic Revolutionary guard generals killed in a suicide bast in the Iranian province of Sistan va Baluchestan. Iran squarely blamed US and Britain for...

Iraqi Militia find way to target innocent gays - the Internet

Torture and killing of innocent Iraqi gays and lesbians has reached a critical state, and Iraqi militia have found an efficient way to target innocent gays - the Internet -, with no intervention from the Iraqi or...

Bomb Blast in Baghdad:58 dead, >300 injured

It is hopeless to expect a sigle day without killings from Iraq.In latest incident of co-ordinated triple bomb blast in Bagdad atleast 58 people died and as per reports more then 300 are seriously injured.In which direction Iraq is heading no body can guess, but these inter...

President Obama's Latest Remarks On Iran - Press Conference

President Barack Obama held a news conference today, Jun. 23,  at 12:30 PM, EST at the White House to discuss topics ranging from Iran to the energy legislation moving through Congress, clean energy economy, and...

Iran blames the US in a deadly mosque bombing

Iran has accused the US of an involvement in a recent mosque bombing that killed many in the south-eastern volatile region of the Islamic Republic of Iran. " An Iranian official accused the United States on Friday...

Bomb rips through Pakistan funeral procession, kills 25

At least 25 killed and 13 injured in an explosion after bomb ripped through a funeral procession Friday in a northwestern Pakistan town. According to reports, the blast occurred during funeral prayer of a person Sher Zaman, shot dead in a target killing incident on Thursday....

30 killed, 50 injured in blast near Shia prayer hall in Pakistan

30 people including two children, have been killed in a suicide bomb blast in Dera Ghazi Khan town in Pakistan's Punjab province. 50 people are injured when about 100 people joined a religious procession outisde a Shia prayer hall. The bomb exploded just before 7pm."Local...

Fresh sectarian clashes in northwest Pakistan, toll climbs to 47

Pakistan's northwestern frontier province is once again in the severe grip of sectarian violence. Fresh clashes broke out between rival Shia and Sunni groups in northwest Pakistan as a truce brokered by tribal elders collapsed due to new attacks by Taliban fighters, with the...

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