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October 16, 2015 | |

Tehran Tests the West with UN Missile Violation

On October 11, Iran successfully tested the launch of the long-range, high-precision “Emad” bal...

July 21, 2015 | |

Taking the Iran Deal Disaster Seriously

The best approach to Iran in the wake of President Obama’s deal is to recognize the complex nature of the problem, and the absolute need for a well-considered and comprehensive approach. Th...

July 6, 2015 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Iran’s Regime Knows ‘Snapback Sanctions’ Aren’t Going to Be Able to Stop it From Going Nuclear

As world powers prepare to finalize a nuclear deal with Iran, European businesses are gearing up for a swift ...

March 16, 2015 | |

Obama’s Security Council Gambit

Co-authored by Lee A. Casey The recent open letter by 47 Republican Senators, putting Iran on notice that the US Constitution fundamentally limits the President’s ability...

June 22, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

‘Escape From Camp 14′: A Shocking Exposé of North Korea’s ‘Hidden Gulag’

For six decades running, the North Korean gulag system has comprised one of the greatest crimes against humanity known to history. Yet it remains an obscurity. There is no such thing as a North K...

June 6, 2012 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

In Nuclear Talks, Iran Plays the Victim Card

With the third round of nuclear talks approaching, Iranian senior figures are taking turns to the airwaves to present a well-rehearsed, grievance-filled version of the issues at stake in their cu...

August 8, 2011 | |

Death by a Thousand Cuts

Summer in the eastern Mediterranean is always hot, wet, and stormy. But in Lebanon, this summer could be bad — even by last year’s standards. The political struggle that has paralyzed...

June 10, 2011 | |

Carnegie advice Lebanon can do without

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has just released a report on the Middle East that ostensibly lays out "a new approach" for the next American administration to pursue - one that is...

July 24, 2008 | Tony Badran Across The Bay |

Three Regime Flacks Play Washington

Check out this editorial in NOW Lebanon today about the "independent" Syrian regime hands in DC. I will com...

July 14, 2008 | World Defense Review

Sudan: The Beginning of the End

On Monday the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, presented evidence to a panel of judges asking for the issuance of an arrest warrant against Sudanese Presi...

September 5, 2006 | TCS Daily |

Countdown to Genocide

The final countdown for Darfur looms. Back in April, in a widely commented piece on TCS, we warned both that the impending Darfur crisis was...

July 20, 2005 | Newt Gingrich Jerusalem Post |

Rethinking UN Reform

By: Newt Gingrich & Peter Oppenheim. An important test for meaningful reform of the United Nations will be measured by whether there is a dramatic change in the way Israel,...

September 9, 2004 | FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Darfur – Islam’s Killing Fields

Why is it that -- yet again -- another Arab League member is massacring its minority populations? Why is the Western media reluctant to identify the religion and ethnicity of the mass murderers a...