Commander's death pulls Hezbollah deeper into Syria quagmire
When a United Nations tribunal began trying those accused of the 2005 assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, a prosecutor struggled to paint a...
ISIS has erased the line between foreign and domestic policy
Not since the Vietnam War has a foreign-policy issue transformed Western domestic politics in the way the threat from Islamic State (ISIS) has. Neither...
Stein's law says oil prices will rise
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop," according to Herbert Stein, former chief economist to U.S. President Richard Nixon ("What I think:...
Oil torn between fundamentals and hedge fund positions
Successful trading rule No.1: do not enter any significant position until you have worked out an eventual exit strategy.
Rule No.1 is especially important if...
U.S. oil, gas industry sheds 100,000 jobs in slump
The number of people employed in oil and gas extraction and support activities across the United States has fallen by around 100,000 since October...
Worst-case scenarios that are more likely than you think
The likelihood that a Russian charter airplane, Metrojet 9268, was felled by a bomb after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, highlights how many national security...
Targeting our unity
Once again we woke up to the sad news of a terror attack at a mosque in Al-Ahsa, which killed four people on Friday....
Iran using US tensions to divert focus from virus crisis
Instead of concentrating on the public health crisis that the Iranian nation is facing, the theocratic establishment appears to be putting its focus on...
Corruption is corrosive, and Saudi Arabia is right to fight it
For a long time, organizations such as the World Bank, the UN Development Programme and Transparency International, not to mention respected academics and authors,...
Hariri needs protection from Hezbollah, not Saudi Arabia
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri emerged as an honest, caring and true statesman in his recent television interview, in which he dismissed rumors...
