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April 4, 2014
Downward Spiral: Erdogan’s Radical Makeover of Turkey
From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, U.S. administrations have long viewed Turkey as a key ally and force for moderation in the Muslim world. In recent years, however, Turkey h...
April 4, 2014
Palestinian Authority Raises Eyebrows After Applying to Join Treaty Against…Corruption
The Palestinian Authority has been widely accused of ...
April 4, 2014
Miley Cyrus Gig Legal Limbo Shows U.S. Tactic for Russia Squeeze
When it comes to creating the maximum amount of pressure on Russia over its annexation of Crimea, the U.S. Treasury has found that ambiguity has its virtues. Treasury officials have been...
April 3, 2014
Insiders: Iran, Russia Close to Oil-Swap Pact Worth Billions
Iran and Russia are gaining traction toward a potential multibillion-dollar oil pact that may lighten pressure on Tehran in nuclear talks, ...
April 2, 2014
Iran, Russia Working to Seal $20 Billion Oil-for-Goods Deal: Sources
Iran and Russia have made progress towards an oil-...
April 1, 2014
Gunmen Kill 6 Egyptian Soldiers at Checkpoint
Gunmen stormed an Egyptian army checkpoint outside Cairo early Saturday morning and killed six soldiers, including some still in their beds, officials said, in what amounted to an escalation by m...
April 1, 2014
Militancy on Rise in Egypt
Egyptian militants have intensified violence ahead of a presidential election to pick a replacement for jailed president Mohamed Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood party has called the ouster "a mur...
April 1, 2014
Georgia Bank with Ties to Alleged Sanctions Busters Changes Ownership Again
A Georgian bank recently investigated by U.S. officials for alleged sanctions busting is under new ownership for the second time in a year, documents show. According to a March 24...
March 27, 2014
Obama Asked to Pressure Saudis to Revise Offending Textbooks
Citing paragraphs that disparage Christians, label Jews “pigs,” and teach that execution is an Islamic response to gay sex, some Americans are asking President Obama to demand th...
March 26, 2014
With New Chinese Cyber-tools, Ethiopia More Easily Spies on its People
Ethiopia’s government is deploying cutting-edge cyber and phone surveillance technologies from China and other nations to conduct widespread spying aimed at suppressing political dissent, a...
March 26, 2014
U.S. Scrambles as Prisoner Release, Jewish State Issue Threaten to Sink Talks
The Obama administration is scrambling to salvage Israeli-Palestinian talks threatened by disputes over core identity issues for each side: recognition of the state’s Jewish character for I...
March 26, 2014
Iran Heads for 5th Month of Oil Exports Above Sanctions Limit
Iran's oil exports have stayed above levels allowed under Western sanctions for a fifth month, according to sources who track tanker movements, in a further sign that a deal to ease some res...
March 25, 2014
U.S. Keeps Saudi Arabia’s Worst Secret
As President Obama prepares for his first visit of his second term to Saudi Arabia, pressure is mounting on the State Department to publish the most comprehensive U.S. government study of the Kin...
March 25, 2014
Iran: Red Lines, Gray Areas
Barack Obama won election to the nation’s highest office under the slogan “Yes we can!” But when it comes to perhaps the boldest foreign policy gamble of his presidency &md...
March 24, 2014
Russia Threatened to Nix the Iran Talks. Does It Really Have That Power?
A day after slapping travel bans on John McCain, Mary Landrieu, a...
March 24, 2014
Why Putin Is Able To Screw With The US At Every Turn
Russian President Vladimir Putin never had any intentions of diplomacy with regard to Crimea, despite a last-ditch ...
March 24, 2014
Tunisia, Arab Spring’s Birthplace, Takes on Militants
Islamist militants across North Africa have been fighting governments in Egypt, Libya, Algeria and Mali for not imposing harsh sharia law, launching terror attacks and even full blown military of...
March 24, 2014
Obama is Setting Up Israel to Take the Fall
In advance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to the United States, President Obama gave ...
March 21, 2014
Russia Hints at Using Iran Talks as Leverage
Despite public assurances by Western officials, concern is growing that the escalating animosity between the United States and Russia over the Ukraine crisis could have a corrosive effect on the...
March 20, 2014
Three Years Into Syrian Civil War, Neighboring Israel Faces Familiar and Emerging Threats
March 15 marked the third anniversary of the beginning of unrest that led to the ongoing Syrian civil war. As the conflict drags on into its fourth year with...
March 20, 2014
Obama Says U.S. Enacting Fresh Penalties on Russia for Annexing Crimea
President Barack Obama ordered a ...
March 20, 2014
Terrorism of the Mundane: Al Qaeda’s Shift to Street Jihad Tactics
I’ve often wondered when the Islamists would bring the kind of IED tactics that were deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq against western soldiers to the cities of North America. We&rsquo...
March 20, 2014
Al Qaeda Core: A Short History
Ever since launching the war on terror in 2001, the United States has struggled to define -- let alone defeat -- what has proved to be a maddeningly amorphous enemy. Al Qaeda, once a relatively d...
March 20, 2014
Pakistan Militant Group Takes Responsibility for Two Bombings
A little-known Islamist militant group took responsibility for twin bombings hundreds of miles apart Friday that killed at least 19 people, wounded dozens and underscored the vulnerability of the...
March 19, 2014
The New Center of Obama’s Drone War
Last month I noted that we’re in the midst of the ...
March 18, 2014
Syria to Remain Unchanged in 2014
The deadly Syrian crisis has officially entered its fourth year just very recently with nothing changing on the ground except certainly for the number of reported causalities and the scale of des...
March 18, 2014
Crude Reality
Iran is exporting more oil than it did last year, and in greater amounts than the limit the United States placed on exports under the on-going negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, accor...
March 18, 2014
Russia Moves Closer to Absorbing Crimea, Despite Sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin brushed off an initial round of Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis and defied wa...
March 18, 2014
The Crimea Precedent
As of this writing the Russian stock market is up more than 4 percent today after a 3.7 percent bump up yesterday. At this rate the annexation of Crimea is going to spark a major rally for Russia...
March 18, 2014
Exposing the Iran Farce
The Geneva talks between the P5+1 group of countries — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany – and Iran are already heading downhill from the perspec...
March 13, 2014
Militant Grip Transforms, Terrorizes Syrian City
Once a vibrant, religiously mixed community, Syria's eastern city of Raqqa is now a shell of its former self, terrorized by hard-line militants who have turned it into the nucleus of their v...
March 12, 2014
Why Europe Is Dismayed By Russia’s Invasion Of Crimea
The PBS Newshour had top-notch coverage of the Ukraine crisis last night. Gwen Ifill noted&nbs...
March 12, 2014
Strained Relations Within GCC Affect US Security Interests
The diplomatic rift between Qatar and its GCC neighbours has raised concerns in Washington over the effect on US regional security interests. The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain last week&...
March 12, 2014
Rand Paul Seems Confused
Unfortunately for Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), he chose to grab the spotlight on foreign policy amid several foreign policy crises that demonstrate the folly of his philosophy. It’s even mo...
March 12, 2014
Mushroom Clouds on the Horizon: Iranian Nuclear Threats Dominate AIPAC
Policy makers and experts addressing the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee(AIPAC) conference on March 2-4, 2014, consistently expressed oppo...
March 11, 2014
IDF Seizure of Gaza-Bound Missiles Sheds Light on Non-Nuclear Elements of Iran’s Strategy
While international attention continues to focus on the Iranian nuclear program and diplomatic efforts to address it, the Israeli Navy’s March 5 intercep...
March 6, 2014
The Gray List: Turkey’s Financing of Terrorism
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gathered in Paris, France on February 14th for a plenary session to analyze the efforts of its 36 member countries and of another 180 jurisdictions around t...
March 6, 2014
What the Iranian Arms Shipment Means
Yesterday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to great lengths to emphasize the nature of the Iranian regime and its true intentions. Likewise, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) ...
March 6, 2014
Saudi, Bahrain, UAE Recall Envoys to Qatar
In a shock move, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday recalled their envoys to Qatar. The three countries said the move was taken to "to protect their security...
March 6, 2014
Taliban on Defense After Worst Pakistan Capital Attack Since ’08
The Pakistani Taliban distanced itself from the capital’s most lethal attack in more than five years, underscoring the difficulty of enforcing a cease-fire it declared three days ago to rev...
March 6, 2014
Terrorist Hafiz Saeed Thanks ‘Brave Man’ Who Offered Three Son to Fight in Jihad
A Pakistani man has "sacrificed" his three sons to a life devoted to Jihad, in a publicly-held worker's convention about 80 km away from Lahore. Abu Haider handed over his sons to H...
March 4, 2014
Obama’s Weakness Makes Wars More Likely
Among the academic set from which President Obama springs, everyone agrees that wars are the result of "...
March 3, 2014
GOP May Not Get New Iran Sanctions, But Push Won’t Disappear
President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have been able to hold off...
March 3, 2014
Iran Advancing Its Nuclear Program Despite Pact with West
Iran is moving ahead with a nuclear program that U.S. officials said would be frozen, and it is now clear the USA and other world powers are willing to accept an Iranian enrichment program that I...
February 27, 2014
Obama No Longer Wants America to Depose Tyrants
What ever happened to regime change?...
February 27, 2014
Our Next President Must be the Anti-Obama
While some in the GOP might seek to mimic (or even surpass!) President Obama’s reticence to assert U.S. power, most on the right recognize that we are going down a slippery slope. It’...
February 27, 2014
Erdogan Says Phone Taps of Him are Fakes From ‘Robot Lobby’
Turks in the conservative Istanbul district where Recep Tayyip Erdogan grew up stood defiantly by their prime minister on Wednesday in the face of a voice recording purportedl...
February 27, 2014
Al Qaeda’s Top Envoy Killed in Syria by Rival Rebel Group
Running an international terrorist organization from a hiding place somewhere in Pakistan isn’t easy. Even though war, be it in Somalia, Yemen or Libya, presents great opportunities for exp...
February 27, 2014
Iran’s Oil Fleet Looks to Come in From Cold as Exports Pick Up
Iran's oil tanker fleet is gearing up for more business, with some vessels taking to the high seas after over more than a year at home ports, another sign that an easing in Western sanctions...
February 27, 2014
Jihadist Vendetta Takes Out Qaeda Leader
Al-Qaeda’s top leader in Syria was killed on Sunday in a suicide bombing in the city of Aleppo that some rebels say was carried out by a jihadist group ...
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