Sitting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan comfortably defeated opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu in this week's runoff vote in the Turkish presidential election. The AKP leader, who has ruled Turkey since 2002, secured... 
A revelation by a regime insider has shed light on how Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has amassed billions of dollars in family wealth during his two-decade rule, which has been marked by rampant corruption in his... 
A much ignored yet gruesome massacre in Iran's prisons in 1988 has come to light following three unrelated events. The first is the ascent to the country's presidency, if not to actual power, of Ebrahim Raisi, a former chief... 
The Middle East Forum has released a policy paper challenging Israel's passive "mow the lawn" Gaza policy, instead presenting a path toward Israel Victory. The paper calls on Israel to rid itself of Hamas's threat by disarming... 
"I was dancing with joy when I arrived. It was one of the happiest days of my life." So spoke Ismail Abdul-Rasul, a father of four from Darfur in Sudan, describing his 2007 reception in Israel after five miserable years in Egypt... 
In recent decades, Hezbollah has established itself not only as one of the world's leading terrorist groups and Lebanon's effective master, but also as a prominent transnational crime syndicate. Hezbollah's criminal activities... 
Israel has in recent years been living with a dangerous phenomenon, to which it has wrongly become accustomed, without any real debate as to its advisability. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) are Palestinian terror... 
The second round of Turkey's consequential presidential election on May 28 did not produce a surprise. Turkey's Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, now in his third decade in power, won 52% of the national vote against 48%...
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