Fatah al-Islam

January 4, 2016 | David Weinberg |

Wrong Way: The Problem With Al Qaeda Prisoner Swaps

In early December, Qatar mediated the release of t...

September 25, 2012 | Ammar Abdulhamid Syrian Revolution Digest |

The Shredded Tapestry: The State of Syria Today

A Trip Report (Turkey, August 10-30) Background The trip was arranged for the purpose of helping an independent American film company do...

September 5, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal |

Fatah al Islam Emir Killed While Waging Jihad in Syria

Fatah al Islam, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group that operates throughout the Middle East, announced the death of the leader of its Al Khilafah Brigades during an ambush in Syria. Abu H...

March 5, 2012 | James Kirchick Commentary |

The Deceits of Seymour Hersh

Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...

March 2, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

Total Collapse

A number of recent articles make the case that...

June 15, 2011 | History News Network |

The Lebanese Government and the US…Allies Behind Doors?

Co-Authored with Robert Rabil Blaming the United States for everything gone awry underneath the sun of the Middle East has become the fashion of the day. Interestingly enough, c...

June 14, 2011 | Middle East Times |

Expected and Undisturbed Hezbollah Coup

The Lebanese government last week tried to put a stop to Hezbollah's blatant takeover of the country. Authorities outlawed Hezbollah's illegal parallel telecom network and fired the air...

June 13, 2011 | Middle East Times |

What’s Going on in Syria?

Syria has been regularly popping up in the news. In fact, recent events point to the importance of that country for the future of the Middle East. Syria's political situation may indeed have...

August 26, 2010 | Clifford D. May

Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness

Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...

April 16, 2009 | |

Syria’s plan

In an interview with the Emirate daily Al-Khaleej last week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad once again revealed his intention to dominate Lebanon. Assad made a number of thinly-veiled threats a...

December 1, 2008 |

Syria Sets its Traps for the Obama Administration

In approaching Syria, the new administration will have to navigate carefully amidst myths, fantasies, and traps laid not just by the Syrians, but also by credulous experts here in the United States. The best way to do so is to assess soberly the Syrian regime's nature, interests, priorities, and instruments as well as the history of diplomatic engagement with it.

August 13, 2008 | Tony Badran Across The Bay |

Assad’s Reminder

NOW's editorial this morning on the terrorist bombing in Tripoli is worth quoting at length:...

July 26, 2007 | |

Hot in Tehran

On the same day that Tony Blair debuted in Portugal as Middle East envoy for the Quartet, a group attempting to advance peace efforts in the Middle East, another kind of meeting convened in Syria...

June 21, 2007 | Walid Phares FrontPage Magazine |

Gaza: A Joint Iran-Syria Production

The latest dramatic military and terror events in Gaza and Lebanon can be viewed from a regional geopolitical perspective: A Syro-Iranian axis offensive on its (their) primarily western front str...

June 20, 2007 |

Dónde Lucharemos

Estados Unidos está en guerra contra al Qaeda – en eso seguro que podemos coincidir – y sabemos que al Qaeda tiene bases en Pakistán. De hecho, es probable que Osama bin...

June 14, 2007 | Walid Phares Lebanon Wire |

Syro-Iranian Massacre of Politicians in Lebanon

With the assassination of Lebanese MP Jebran Tueni in December 2006, months after the murder of political leaders George Hawi and Samir Qassir during the summer, the Syro-Iranian terror war room...

June 5, 2007 | |

Before Talking, See if There is Anything to Talk About

Recently, writing in The Washington Post, US Congressman Darrell Issa made "the case for talking to Syria." However, implementing his proposal would effectively reverse years of multilateral US p...

May 23, 2007 | |

Things Fall Apart, Again

Perhaps the single most surprising, and enchanting, thing about Lebanon is the stillness of the place. High above Beirut on Mount Lebanon, signs at the Monastery of Saint Maron-Anaya admonish vis...