Claude Salhani is a journalist, author and political analyst based in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, specializing in the Middle East, politicized Islam and terrorism
He is the former editor of the Middle East Times and a long-time contributor to the Commentary pages of the Washington Times and Beirut’s Executive Magazine. He is the former International Editor with United Press International and also ran UPI's Terrorism & Security Desks.
Is the US Government Machiavellian enough to orchestrate the recent brouhaha over the so-called website WikiLeaks, is this a real embarrassment, or will it indeed…
First, the U.S. could never under the current circumstances in Iraq fully withdraw all its troops as long as Iran continues to run interference in…
Iran, it is believed, is on the fast track to develop nuclear weapons which Israel sees as a direct threat to not only its security,…
Did King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia narrowly avoid being overthrown by a close member of his own royal family? That seems to be a rumor…
The killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was until recently widely believed to have been perpetrated by the Syrians, or at least on…
With summer here we are entering a precarious time in the Middle East, a time that deserves particular attention. This is a perilous moment for…
Whoever said “it’s all about the economy, stupid,” got it only partially right. It is indeed all about the economy, or at least half of…
The former Soviet Central Asian republics are at a precarious crossroad today between accomplishing monumental progress, like Kazakhstan, and flirting with disaster and the prospects…
If anyone still harbored any doubts that there is an urgent need to resolve the Middle East crisis one needs only look at the events…
Intelligence sources in the Middle East have indicated that the summer in the region could turn out to be particularly hot and they're not talking…
The United States Marines are expected to do the hard work when it comes to War. They are given the toughest jobs and the most…
The Middle East peace talks are at a deadlock. Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to move ahead with the plan established by the so-called…
Oil and politics have always gone together for a simple reason; since oil became an indispensable commodity without which the world as we know it…
One nagging question that the industrial world has been asking itself since the discovery of the first oil well is what happens when the wells…
In order to survive revolutions must continue to propagate themselves or else they die; that was true of revolutions on the left that saw their…
For the last several decades it was generally assumed that Israel was the United States’ staunchest ally in the Greater Middle East. But when former…
History was made about ten days ago in Vienna at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency when China and Russia voted along with…
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