Good news and bad news from Lebanon as Nawaf Salam elected premier
Israel-bashing president of the International Court of Justice hardly seems the one to bring peace with neighbor
Hafez al-Assad
Intense IDF Strikes Reported on Former Assad Regime’s Military Sites in Syria
Israeli Air Force Reportedly Strikes Weapons Sites in Tartus: The IDF reportedly targeted weapons sites belonging to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad in the...
Flash Briefs
‘Everything Assad Got From Iran and Russia Has Been Destroyed’: Israel Ramps Up Attacks on Syria’s Arsenals
Hundreds of Strikes: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on December 10 reported ‘hundreds’ of bombing sorties by Israeli warplanes against abandoned Syrian military weapons...
Flash Briefs
Tehran May Tempt Trump With Talks
The Islamic Republic is on the ropes, but it could still exploit the threat of rapid nuclear breakout.
Op-eds
Reporting from the Golan Heights, on the day Assad was overthrown
Jerusalem Post reporter Seth J. Frantzman reports from the Golan Heights, near the abandoned Syrian town of Quneitra, where a lone regime flag still stood.
Op-eds
Assad End in Syria
Excerpt The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has collapsed. Sunni rebels, backed by Turkey and Qatar, completed their lightning offensive last night after just a few short days of fighting. Assad’s...
Op-eds
Why did Israel’s new foreign minister embrace the Kurdish people?
Israel has long enjoyed positive relations with Kurdish people in the Middle East. It is part of a partnership between Jews and Kurds and also shared interests in the region
Op-eds
Don’t Believe Predictions of a Rift Between Iran and Syria
Last week, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad reportedly expelled Javad Ghaffari, the top Iranian commander in Syria, spurring hopes that Damascus is on the brink of a realignment that would draw it closer...
Op-eds
Two Palestinian dreams
The Trump plan is meant to foreclose one and facilitate the other
Op-eds
Trump can get both Turkish and Kurdish support in Syria by negotiating peace deal
President Trump’s strategy of getting out of Syria but keeping the oil continues to stir up policy debates and emotions. Opponents of the U.S. withdrawal see this as a betrayal of the Syrian Kurds,...
Op-eds
Iran can cause a new Holocaust, warns Islam expert in Austrian Parliament
"If there is going to be a repeat of the Holocaust, it will not be in Europe - here people have matured - but in the Middle East."
Op-eds
Kurd Your Enthusiasm
On October 16, the world woke to footage of the Iraqi army barreling toward Kirkuk, several hundred miles n...
Op-eds
The Six-Day War and the 50-year occupation
Fifty years ago this week, the young state of Israel faced the threat of extermination – a second Jewish Holocaust in a single century. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated candidly...
Op-eds
The German Left’s Undeclared War on Israel
The historian Jeffrey Herf's profound new book shows that German-animated left-wing terrorism targeting Israel was not a tactic but rather part of a long-war strategy to destroy the Jewish s...
Op-eds
All in the Assad Family
Everyone loves Christmas in New York City, and Ribal al-Assad, the first cousin of the genocidal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, is no exception....
Op-eds
Obama’s Equilibrium Fantasy
With the nuclear deal finally out of the way, President Obama can now get down to what, for him, has always been the real business—engaging Iran on regional issues. As one adminis...
Op-eds
The Islamic World’s Thirty Years War
Even as Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries were toppling the Shah in 1979, at the core of their thinking was that their Shia revolution should not be limited to their homeland but ex...
Op-eds
The Secret History of Hezbollah
Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It wasn&rsquo...
Op-eds
Protracted Syria War Not in US Interests
America should not pursue a stalemated conflict in Syria
Op-eds
The Creation of an Unbridgeable Divide
The transformation of the Syrian Revolution from a nonviolent and inclusive pro-democracy protest movement into a civil war, pitting majority-Sunni and majority-Alawite militias against each othe...