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Iran's conflicts at home and abroad have only inflamed popular zeal for Khomeini's Islamic revolution and its militant embrace of Muslim fundamentalism. When Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered his latest call to arms last week in the northeastern city of Mashad, thousands of cheering young men...
To the outside world, the Lebanese Shi'ites are chiefly known for the brutal acts that have made the extremists among them the Middle East's most feared and persistent terrorists. Shadowy radical Shi'ite groups, like Islamic Jihad, have claimed responsibility for a murderous catalog of suicide bomb attacks...
What are the Shi'ites of Lebanon up to? Unlike other Arab groups, most Shi'ites despise the Palestinians, who occupied their country for twelve years prior to the Israeli invasion in 1982, almost as much as they hate the Israelis, who now control a six-mile by 40-mile...
In the months ahead, Egypt's financial crisis, the worst in many years, may become increasingly difficult to brush aside. Unless Cairo can find a way to gain relief from payments coming due on its $35 billion foreign debt, it may be forced either to default on loans or to...
Jenco's release, like that of others before him, highlighted the plight of the remaining Western hostages in Lebanon. Among them are three Americans still held by the same group: Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson, 38, David Jacobsen, 55, director of the American University Hospital in Beirut, and Thomas Sutherland...