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| January 31 |
| Geopolitical Diary: Deciphering the An Najaf Battle |
| Geopolitical Diary: Qatar's Bid for Regional Influence |
| Benchmarks: Iraq`s soaring civilian toll |
| Richard Lugar: Beyond Baghdad |
| Jon Kyl : A crisis of courage |
| John Hughes: Consequences of US commitment to Iraq |
| American Road Trip Through Arab Eyes |
| U.S. unveils evidence Iran fueling Iraq war |
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| January 30 |
| Iran, U.S.: Working Toward a Solution? |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Palestinian Issue and
Saudi-Iranian Contest |
| Israel: A Rushed Bombing in Eilat |
| Israel: The Eilat Bombing's Local and Regional
Implications |
| Bombing in Israeli resort town shatters lull in attacks |
| Battle suggests new sectarian divides in Iraq |
| Libya: Setting the Stage for an Energy Renaissance |
| David Bell: Was 9/11 really that bad? |
| Insurgencies Rarely Win – And Iraq Won’t Be Any
Different (Maybe) |
| Seven Questions: Why Iran Wants a Stable Iraq |
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| January 29 |
| Bernard Lewis: Muslims 'about to take over Europe' |
 Things Fall
Apart: Containing the Spillover from an Iraqi Civil War |
| Feature: Veil off - one woman's 'life-changing' decision |
| Stephen Hadley: Baghdad Is Key |
| Keith Crane: Put Iraqi insurgents out of business |
| How US is putting more heat on Iran |
| Gaza street battles eclipse talks |
| US Congress weighs its role on Iraq |
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| January 28 |
| Cracks in Iran: U.S. pressure may be having an impact on
the mullahs |
| Nuclear plans in chaos as Iran leader flounders |
| Henry Porter: They're broken men, so don't let them take
us to a new war |
| Iran: Shoppers see red and President feels the heat over
tomatoes |
| Iraq: A
volcano of revenge |
| Analysis: On Iran, Bush Confronts Echoes of Iraq |
| Yossi Ben Ari: Time to adopt 'Madrid Model' |
| Lethal-Force Order Justified, Bush Says |
| A NATO for the Middle East |
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| January 27 |
| Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: 'If they pay we kill them anyway' -
the kidnapper's story |
| Iran: The Potential for a Satellite Launch |
| Pakistan: Suicide Bombing at Marriott |
| Pakistan: The Implications of the Marriott Bombing |
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| January 26 |
| PROFILE: Petraeus framed as man to rescue Bush Iraq
policy |
| James Woolsey: Chess with Tehran |
| David Ignatius: Rice's Strategic Reset |
| Jim Abourezk: The hidden cost of free congressional
trips to Israel |
| Ze'ev Schiff: Self-inflicted injury |
| Iason Athanasiadis: Middle East's cold war heats up |
| Tony Karon: Should Israel be in Bush's back seat? |
| Aaron Klein: Olmert's party proposes handing West Bank
to Europe |
| Iraq: Fight today or occupy forever |
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| January 25 |
| Scandals shake Israeli public's faith |
| What can Bush achieve in two years? |
| Evelyn Gordon: Tell the Palestinians the truth |
| Michael Oren: What if Israel and Syria Find Common
Ground? |
| Tehran power struggle intensifies |
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| January 24 |
| Abdullah Iskandar: An Iranian Public Relations Campaign
Directed at the Arabs |
| America's new round in Iraq |
| John Hughes: America (finally!) begins to embrace
alternative energy |
| Hazem Saghieh: Iraq's Blood Is on All of Their Hands |
| West's Iran plan shows gains. Will US stick to it? |
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| January 23 |
| Akiva Eldar: Mediators met with Eli Cohen's family |
| Michael Shai: The Halutz lesson |
| The Region: Weakness and bad strategy |
| M.D Nalalpat: Don't ignite the Shiites |
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| January 22 |
| Claude Salhani: What next for Iraq? |
| Geopolitical Diary: Al-Sadr's Calculus |
| Shlomo Cohen: The real Iranian threat |
| Prominent lobbyist Perle: U.S. will attack Iran if it
obtains nukes |
| At Baghdad's Ground Zero |
| Counterinsurgency takes center stage in Iraq |
| Murder of outspoken journalist tests Turkey's democratic
gains |
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| January 21 |
| Former spy lines up to replace Israel's leader |
| Syria prefers alliance with Israel over Iran, Liel says |
| Iran: Hands
up if you've lost the plot |
| Jim Hoagland: Impatience on Iran Carries a Price |
| David S. Broder: A Chance For Unity On Iraq |
| Akiva Eldar: EU official in secret Syria talks met with
PM's chief of staff |
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| January 20 |
| Israelis, Syrian draft non-paper |
| Iraq: Al-Sadr and the Shiite Understanding |
| Frida Ghitis: Arabs, Jews proud to be Israelis |
| Deborah Lipstadt: Jimmy Carter's Jewish Problem |
| Eye on Iraq: The strategy of surge |
| Business as Usual in Russia's Latest Contract Killing |
| Geopolitical Diary: Chinese-Vatican Relations Warming |
| Aaron David Miller: Diplomacy is deal-making |
| Diplomacy: Exclusive interview with Ambassador Richard
Jones |
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| January 19 |
| Intelligence agencies see worrying signs of
al-Qaeda’s revival |
| Iran feels the heat: International pressure emboldens Tehran’s domestic critics |
| Mustafa El-Labbad: If Iran gets the bomb |
| Alon Liel: PM's Office was updated about Syria talks |
| US luring Arab states into anti-Iran role: experts |
| Abdullah: Jordan will develop nuclear power |
| Raanan Eliaz: New rules for the Middle East game |
| Rice Highlights Opportunities After Setbacks On Mideast
Trip |
| David Schenker: If You Must Engage Syria, Do It the
Lantos Way |
| Ali G. Scotten: Iranians' love affair with America |
| Saudi Arabia: Power Is Not All in the Family |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Problems with Iraq's New Oil Law
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| Daniel Schorr: The Kurds as Charlie Brown |
| Raja Kamal: Iraq has become the sum of 3 parts |
| Ze'ev Schiff: The next IDF chief / Mission: Iran |
| Jimmy Carter: A New Chance for Peace? |
| Jonathan Cook: We, the Jewish state |
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| January 18 |
| Syrian, Israeli backdoor talks now emerging |
| Saudi Arabia casts wary eye on its Shiites |
| Uzi Benziman: Help, they want peace |
| Karl Inderfurth: What the Iraq Study Group said about
America's 'other war' |
| Mikhail Gorbachev: History is not preordained: a new
cold war can be averted |
| Abdullah Gul: The east's problem is internal, not a clash
with the west |
| U.K.: The British Response to a Real Threat? |
| Somalia: A Possible New Voice for the Islamists |
| U.S.: The White Supremacist Movement's Metamorphosis |
| David Ignatius: The Right Bet in the Mideast |
| A uniform trend? How democracy worldwide is on the back
foot |
| Michael Freund: Just who exactly is a 'moderate' Arab
leader? |
| Mohammad Khatami: Unjust Iraq Occupation Has Led to
Dangerous 'Fire' |
| James Dobbins: A bad plan for the Middle East |
| Feature: Iraq's Kurds face mounting anger from all sides |
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| January 17 |
| Rhetoric and Reality: The View from Iran |
| Geopolitical Diary: Back-Channel Negotiations Between Israel and Syria |
| Islam's Sunni-Shiite split: A look at the historic divide within the Muslim world |
| Saudis consider sending troops to Iraq |
| OPEC: The Price Drop |
| Pakistan, U.S.: Cooperative Efforts Against Taliban
Elements? |
| John Hughes: Never forget Saddam Hussein's cruelty |
| Why is Egypt airing insurgent TV from Iraq? |
| Feature: Police to investigate Olmert |
| Eye on Iraq: A general for Iraq |
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| January 16 |
| Claude Salhani: Cell phone cams expose torture |
| Iran in Iraq: Making a complex insurgency even more so |
| Iran president future in doubt as MPs rebel and economic
crisis grows |
| Israel buzzes over notion of attacking Iran |
| Scott MacLeod: Assad's Road to Washington? |
| Targeting Iran? |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: Meshaal’s Concessions from
Damascus |
| Ahmed Al-Rabei: If Tehran Knew |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iraq, Iran and a Question of
Engagement |
| Obituary: Barzan al-Tikriti |
| The threat from Iran |
| Bush's Iraq plan races against two clocks |
| Somalia: Yusuf's Risky Tactics |
| Russ Feingold: America's role in Somalia |
| Kamil Mahdi: Iraqis will never accept this sellout to
the oil corporations |
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| January 15 |
| Dan Plecsh: Next target Tehran |
| Claude Salhan: Iran must be stopped |
| Rice visit leaves Palestinians gloomy |
| Analysis: Iran-Latin America - the alliance of unlikely
brothers |
| The Next Jihadists: Iraq's Lost Children |
| White House: Can't rule out attack on Iran |
| Michael Oren: Apple pie and the Middle East |
| Michael O'Hanlon: A skeptic's case for the surge |
| Editorial: The new 'if' in Iraq |
| The Brookings Institution: An
examination of the new Iraq policy |
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| January 14 |
| Israel and the Jews: Second thoughts about the Promised
Land |
| Henry Allen: Therapy For Nation Builders |
| Luis Carlos Montalvan: Losing Iraq, One Truckload at a Time |
| Iraq: After the surge ... what next? |
| Iraq: After the surge ... what next? |
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| January 13 |
| Israel braced for action against Iran |
| Gulf states see trouble ahead; Defense spending spikes |
| Analysis: Warnings if Iraq plan fails |
| Analysis: Iraq PM's silence telling |
| Sam Leith: Bush is free to get out of Iraq when he likes |
| Ghaith Abdul-Ahad: The jihad now is against the Shias,
not the Americans |
| The U.S. Embassy Attack in Athens: A Potential Link to
the Past |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iran's View of the Surge |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski: Five Flaws in the President's Plan |
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| January 12 |
| Madrid meeting seeks to spur Mideast peace |
| The US moves to confront Iran and Syria |
| Iraq: The U.S. Move to Check Iran |
| Geopolitical Diary: Iraq After al-Maliki |
| Mackubin Owens: Why Bush's war plan can work |
| Daniel Schorr: The Democrats' 100-hour blitz |
| In Baghdad, concerns about a violent year |
| Bush's Iraq plan: Is it enough? |
| Can African peacekeepers tame Somalia? |
| Attacks heat up Afghan-Pakistani border |
| David Makovsky: Rice Is Thinking Big, but Will It Work? |
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| January 11 |
| Full Text: Address of President Bush to the US |
| Robert Fisk: Bush's new strategy - the march of folly |
| Analysis: Public face of the surge |
| Summary: What the 'surge' in Iraq will mean |
| Geopolitical Diary: Emerging Details of the Surge
Strategy |
| Mohammed Dahlan: We proved to Hamas that Gaza is not
theirs |
| Analysis: Meshal declaration basic shift in Hamas
position |
| John Cooley: The thorn in the Horn of Africa |
| How Congress may block a troop 'surge' |
| New US team in Iraq: seasoned, but how tough? |
| Hussein Shobokshi: The Big Exodus |
| Con Coughlin: Welcome victory in the war on terror |
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| January 10 |
| Zev Chafets: Maybe Israel should bust Iran's bunkers |
| Jeff Jacoby: The Boston mosque's Saudi connection |
| Tariq al-Hashimi: Don't give up on Iraq yet |
| Jonathan Freedland: Bush is fuelling a new cold war |
| Bennett Ramberg: A Middle East free of nuclear weapons |
| Pamela Hess: Restarting Iraq's factories |
| Analysis: Middle East, explosive as ever |
| Claude Salhani:
Iran runs Iraq terror network |
| Roger Stern: Iran actually is short of oil |
| Martin Walker: Rumors of war |
| Amir Taheri: Mr President, herewith my ten tips to deal
with Iraq |
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| January 9 |
| Geopolitical Diary: The Surge and a Gamble |
| Morocco: a model of Muslim-Jewish ties |
| Analysis: In a divided Israel, angry words or no words
at all |
| Anti-Semitism: The libeling of a people surges with a
vengeance |
| Iraq: War against time |
| Mark Katz: Maliki's monumental mistake |
| Feature: Planned settlement arouses ire |
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| January 8 |
| Plan Sets Series of Goals for Iraq Leaders |
| Leader: Doing nothing over Iran risks leaving Israel to
act |
| Margaret Beckett: Iran's moment of choice |
| Accused Israeli traitor talks about her ordeal |
| Kathryn Porter; How to stop today's trails of tears |
| Feature: Residents fed up in Israeli town where rockets
rain |
| A tougher journey to stock US troops in Iraq |
| Plan for troop 'surge' in Iraq gathers force |
| Michalis Firillas: Turkey - the West's last line of
defense? |
| Danny Rubinstein: Time to admit failure |
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| January 7 |
| FOCUS: MISSION IRAN |
| U.S. puts squeeze on Iran's oil fields |
| Robert Kaplan: Arab nationalism's last gasp |
| Edmund Sanders: Ethiopia's intervention may destabilize
region |
| Musa Keilani: 'The solution for Syria' |
| Niall Ferguson: Old order is dead – prepare for the
old disorder |
| Isreal attack on Iran nuclear sites: A giant and scary
leap |
| Interview: Saddam was my father |
| Richard Rhames: Triumph of the Thugs |
| Ayman Khatib-Yassin; The price of faith |
| Bomb’s lasting toll: Lost Laughter, broken Lives |
| Leader: A last chance for Iraq to save itself from civil
war |
| Charles Moore: When order breaks down, reach for the
rope |
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| January 6 |
| Analysis: Shuffling and surging |
| Ike Seamans: Rice comes up short |
| The hanging: Beyond travesty |
| Tunisia: The Next Militant Hotspot? |
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| January 5 |
| Geopolitical Diary: A Leadership Change In Tehran? |
| The 'Surge Strategy': Political Arguments and Military Realities |
| Pierre Heumann: One Year Without Sharon |
| Raghida Dergham: The Neo-Cons' Role in Saddam's
Execution 'Deal' |
| Iraq: Between Fact and Notion |
| We’ll rise up; we’ll become a bomb' |
| Israeli experts say Middle East was safer with Saddam in
Iraq |
| Michael Burleigh: The Iranian who wants an apocalypse |
| If Iraq fragments, what's Plan B? |
| Israel eyes West Bank growth |
| Analysis: Egypt meet proves futile as civil war rages in
Gaza |
| Alon Liel: History and Hussein's hanging |
| Pentagon to train a sharper eye on Africa |
| Somalis loath to disarm |
| Brent Scowcroft: Getting the Middle East Back on Our
Side |
| Sharon's stroke impacts regional developments |
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| January 4 |
| Eye on Iraq: The fragmented war |
| US professor says no evidene bin Laden was behind 9/11 |
| Taunting of Saddam prompts new look at Iraqi leadership |
| Somalia: Ethiopia's Quandary |
| Yair Hirschfeld: Back to the Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Timothy Garton Ash: Today's European Union is 27 states
in search of a story |
| India awakens to its other pariahs: Muslims |
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| January 3 |
| Think tank: Israel could attack Iran nuclear program
alone |
| Is Syria a reforming character? |
| Jonathan Freedland: Things may be grim, but there are
reasons to be cheerful |
| Al Qaeda: As-Sahab's revealing December productions |
| Olivier Guitta: Syria's Nukes |
| Secret U.S. plan to overthrow Syrian government |
| David Ignatius: Will We Leave Iraqi Allies Behind? |
| Hazem Saghieh: The Choice is not Between Iran and Israel |
| Mshari Al-Zaydi: Who is the master of the Middle East? |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: Why not learn from history and
present |
| Darfur diplomacy: sidelined by Somalia? |
| Somalia tense after Islamists vanish |
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| January 2 |
| Moshe Arens: Syria: First things first |
| Eugene Robinson: A Scaffold's Dark Portrait of Iraq |
| Iran's people are ready for real change - Behrooz Bahbudi and Walid Phares |
| Tulin Daloglu: Iraq in context |
| Ghada Karmi: These shameful events have humiliated the Arab world |
| Arthur Schlesinger: America needs history as never
before |
| WAR AND STORM DOMINATE 2006 |
| Binyamin Netanyahu: Iran can still be stopped |
| Uri Heitner: Peace without Golan |
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| January 1 |
| Iran may be facing a steep economic decline |
| Nicholas Blanford: A dictator's Mideast legacy |
| Execution doesn't end Hussein's influence |
| Relentless toll to US troops of roadside bombs |
| For Sunnis, dictator’s degrading end signals
ominous dawn for the new Iraq |
| Trudy Rubin: Policy in Iraq must be linked to entire
region |
