Mir Hussein Mousavi has reaffirmed his opposition to the Iranian government, according to an interview (Persian) with Khadijeh Mousavi, the sister of the detained opposition leader. In a recent visit with family members at his home where ...

On Saturday, U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) met with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, ruling military leaders, and the prime minister in Egypt. The Brotherhood released a statement noting three top officials met with Kerry and U.S. Ambassador ...

Amnesty International found that the U.S. continually shipped arms to Egyptian security forces despite the use of violence to crack down on demonstrators. Amnesty noted that a "shipment for the Egyptian Ministry of Interior arrived from the US on ...

The United States has launched a web-based “embassy” in both English and Farsi in what observers have called "a bid to promote dialogue with the Iranian people in the absence of formal diplomatic ties." The ...

At an event sponsored by the Project on Middle East Democracy and the School of Advanced International Studies, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) gave a speech addressing the role of the United States in relation to ongoing unrest in ...

Josh Rogin has reported that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will host a meeting of a "panel made up of outside experts that will advise Clinton ... on the top priorities facing the State Department." Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott will chair the ...

Writing for Fair Observer, Alexander Innes contends that the $53 million arms sale to Bahrain is "designed to check Iranian regional influence but would in fact do the opposite," adding that "it is in the American national ...

Herman Cain has released his "Vision for Foreign Policy and National Security," detailing his assessment of "key country relations" throughout the globe. He comments on several Middle Eastern countries, including Libya, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Egypt, ...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden arrived in Iraq on Tuesday to mark the end of the Iraq War a month from now. The White House noted in a statement that the purpose of his trip is to deepen ...

Last night the 2012 GOP candidates debated foreign policy, which revealed "clear differences on the pace of withdrawal from Afghanistan, aid to Pakistan, the Iranian threat, immigration, and the balance between protecting the homeland and preserving civil liberties," ...

The GOP 2012 presidential candidates are set to debate foreign policy again tonight, as Newt Gingrich has surged in recent polls putting him one point ahead of Mitt Romney. The GOP candidates, including Gingrich, have previously heavily criticized President ...

According to an Egyptian military source, the SCAF has discussed the possibility of appointing opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei to head a new government following the cabinet's resignation. Al Jazeera stated that "the council reportedly asked ElBaradei on Monday ...

16 year old Ali Yousif AlSatrawi was killed last night after a police vehicle crashed into him on Saturday morning during protests in Manama. Ali al-Satrawi died at the scene "due to injuries sustained after being pinned under the police ...

Senators John Kerry (D-MA),  Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), and John McCain (R-AZ)  introduced S. Res. 317 "expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the liberation of Libya from the dictatorship led by Muammar Qaddafi". The resolution "congratulates the people of Libya for their tremendous courage and extraordinary resilience in liberating ...

The National Journal released foreign policy dossiers of each Republican Presidential candidates, outlining each of the candidates key foreign policy approaches. While all the candidates agree on their staunch support of Israel, their approaches to the Arab Spring differ ...

Two more cosponsors have been added to H.J. Res. 80, which calls for “limiting the issuance of a letter of offer with respect to a certain proposed sale of defense articles and defense services to the Kingdom of Bahrain,” originally ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi traveled to Benghazi to meet with Libyan Prime Minister Abdel Rahim al-Keib and other members of the TNC. The parties planned to discuss expansion of bilateral relations, and Salehi suggested that ...