The sorrow and the pity in Syria
Over the last five years, Syria has been descending into a hell on Earth. Over the last four months, the lowest depths of the...
Arab Spring
Trump Wants to Shake Up the World Order? Here’s Where He Should Start
The specifics have often fluctuated, but the core of Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision has remained steady. He believes, as the Brookings Institution’s Thomas Wright has noted, &ld...
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Analysis: Is the next ‘Arab Spring’ implosion around the corner?
The alarm bells sounding the impending youth revolt is perhaps the central takeaway from the UN’s report released Tuesday on the herculean challenges facing Arab states across the Middle Ea...
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The Fragile State of the Palestinian Authority
A Palestinian court on Thursday postponed municipal elections scheduled for Oct. 8 because Palestine’s two largest political factions, Fatah and Hamas, couldn’t agree on terms. The st...
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Zawahiri’s Revenge
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham — which has now rebranded itself "the Islamic State" (IS) — is trying to position itself as the new leader of the global...
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By blocking UN vote, Egypt sticks finger in Turkey’s eye
Egypt blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution this past Saturday that...
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Erdogan’s Weathervane Foreign Policy
On June 27, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey would be normalizing relations with ...
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Iran Stirs Up More Trouble in the Gulf
Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ external operations wing the Quds Force, ...
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A death in Damascus, a funeral in Beirut
Five years ago, during the hopefully named Arab Spring, Syrians staged peaceful protests against the ruling dynasty that had long oppressed them. President Bashar al Assad responded brutally: In...
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How much ruin is there in a nation?
People think early European immigrants to America were seeking religious freedom. In fact, they sought escape from religious persecution. Not quite the same thing. The policy not to mole...
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The Sunni-Shi’ite Proxy War Heats Up
Beneath the recent ferment of a highly volatile Middle East lies the region’s deepest geopolitical fault line: the decades-long rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. This modern-day contes...
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After Abbas, Le Déluge in the Palestinian Authority
Palestinian leaders in the West Bank refer to the wave of terror currently gripping Israel as a haba sha'abiya, or a "popular outburst." The imagery suggests that the terror wave is widespre...
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Operation Hemorrhage: The Terror Plans to Wreck the West’s Economy
Every European who flies frequently knows the airport in Zaventem, has spent time in the ticketing area that was strewn with blood, limbs, broken glass, battered luggage and other wreckage. ...
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Osama bin Laden’s ‘Bookshelf’ Reveals al Qaeda’s Long Game
When 113 new documents recovered in 2011 during the fatal raid on...
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Palestine’s Anti-Corruption Crusader
The biggest political standoff in years just ended in the West Bank and barely anyone in Washington noticed. A parliamentarian from Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abba...
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The Death of Iran’s Islamic Left
Co-written by Ray Takeyh Democracy in the Islamic Republic is a peculiar institution: it is designed to reinforce the legitimacy of the theoc...
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Al-Jazeera Files $150M Claim Against Egypt for Harassment of Journalists
The Al-Jazeera news network has filed a $150M arbitration claim against the government of Egypt, making good on a three-year-old threat to seek redress for what it describes as the persecution of...
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Ankara’s Failure
Makalenin Türkçe çevirisini buradan okuyabilirsiniz. When ...
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Ten Years of Hamas Rule: The Palestinians Must Solve Their Divide Before Peace With Israel
Ten years ago today, Hamas won the 2006 Palestinian legislative electi...
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A Dangerous Combination
Co-authored by John Schindler Two weeks ago, al Qaeda-linked jihadists attacked the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso and murdered 28 people, including an American missionary. It w...