The pandemic hasn’t hit Syria hard yet. When it does, it’ll be a disaster.
Infections are rising in a country that’s unprepared for the coronavirus.
Infections are rising in a country that’s unprepared for the coronavirus.
The regime of Bashar al-Assad continues to report implausibly low numbers of COVID-19 cases, while evidence mounts of deliberate deception. The presence of tens of thousands of Iranian-backed militia fighters...
Soon after the establishment of the Islamic Republic, Iran’s leaders shut down the entire country’s university system to purge it of Western infl...
Urbi et Orbi, the city and the world, Tehran and the globe. In his turban and clerical robe, softly speaking of peace, Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, resembles a spiritual guide mor...
Since June 2012, Peter Bergen, the swashbuckling reporter who serves as CNN’s national-security analyst and a director of the liberal New America Foundation, has been among those in the for...
Co-authored by Tara Vassefi “The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain have not only shaken the foundation of the authoritarian order in the...
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Canada began hearing an appeal from Mohammad Momin Khawaja,...
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You remember Saif Qaddafi, the “reformer” son of Moammar Qaddafi, and heir-apparent of the Qaddafi regime? Saif Qaddafi the erstwhile lover of democracy; he of the Qaddafi Foundation...
Last Friday, speaking in New York to reporters one day after attending a major meeting on Somalia chaired by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the margins of the 65th session the Un...
Ever since the United States issued a rather unceremonious threat to bomb the Pakistanis back to the Stone Age in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks unless they changed course, Pakistan has b...
This morning I had the opportunity to listen in on a panel called "Will Pakistan be Democratic in 2020?" that was hosted by The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (full disclosure, I am a...
Dr. j. Peter Pham Former Somali General Mohamed Ali Samantar was defense minister and vice president (1980-1986) and, once the post was revived, prime minister (1987-1990) under Somalia&...
What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, Alan B. Krueger (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 180 pp. Reviewed by Daveed Gartenstein...
Two weeks ago in this column space I observed that free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria "would lead to the inauguration of a legitimate political order;[which] would not only consolidate...
Somewhere along the crooked path that runs from the collapse of the Soviet Union that signaled the emergence of the United States as the world's lone superpower to the seemingly intractable...