Bashar and Asma al-Assad, President and first-wife of Syria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last year with the coming of the ‘Arab Spring,’ the popular notion projected and supported by the Western media was that oppressed people in the Middle East were rising up against their long-time ruthless dictators seeking Western-style democracy. Since that time, in every [...]

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that growing religious intolerance was an overlooked downside to the ‘Arab Spring.’ While the popular revolts against longtime dictators in the Middle East and North Africa brought hope to millions of Arabs, Religious minorities in those countries, particularly Christians have seen an increase in persecution in the [...]

On Sunday in a television interview, MP Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Walid Sakariya, a senior Hezbollah official, presented plans of a plausible strategy for destroying Israel. See the video above. Here’s part of the transcript provided by IMRA: "Iran is the country most hostile to Israel, but Iraq serves as a buffer between Iran and the Palestine [...]

According to reports, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a fatwa against the Protestors in Syria calling them the “enemies of Allah”. Not only that, he has ordered Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Lebanese Hezbollah (which receive Iranian support) to actually do armed battle with protestors in order to help save the Syrian government. [...]

                                         (Image via Wikipedia) Since the end of WWI Turkey has been ruled by a secular government supported by an independent military. The country has been in the midst of a transition for several years and now even the military is under increasing pressure from the pro-Islamist government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan. In October [...]

(Turkey via Wikipedia) Members of Congress recently sent a bipartisan letter to President Obama concerning Turkey’s new ties and support of Iran and Hamas. Turkey has been a major ally of the US and Israel and a part of NATO since the end of WWII. Congress is calling on the President and his administration to [...]

(Image by GoGap via Flickr) Since 1951 Turkey has been part of NATO and has received $Billions in military weapons and training from the USA. It has been a staunch ally of America and Israel and continues to maintain the second largest army in the alliance. It stood as a strong bulwark against Russia and [...]