The Time Is Now For Urgent Middle East Reform
It is all too easy today to look at the Middle East and throw up…
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Roads to Raqqa: Potential Turkish and Kurdish Offensives
In the unlikely event that either side decides to follow through on its declared…
Taking on militants: A fight for the soul of Pakistan
Two high-level meetings in recent months involving senior military commanders and intelligence officials and/or top-level…
New President for Lebanon
Although filling the long-vacant office could help pull the country out of its political stagnation,…
Ethics in sports: Slovenia Fights Sports Corruption
Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Slovenian Olympic Committee was great opportunity to address and discuss important questions on the recent developments…
How Israel can contribute to Saudi’s vision 2030
The topic of establishing a relationship between Saudi Arabia and Israel raises many theories, assumptions,…
Fighting A Culture Of Illusion: The Long Struggle Of Dr. Turki Al-Hamad
To write anything about Saudi Arabia is to invite controversy. The country has been both…
Pakistan’s Bermuda Triangle
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had a comfortable meeting with the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on…
It Sure Seems Like Egypt and the UAE Are at War In Libya
AT-802. Photo via the author Evidence piling up that Cairo and Abu Dhabi have deployed forces …
A New Governorate For The Nineveh Plain, And Beyond
On September 9, 2016, U.S. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) introduced a bipartisan resolution in the…
On anniversary, can we finally catch Benedict’s point at Regensburg?
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI delivers an address in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which caused a…
The War Doctrine Israel Does Not Talk About
Editor’s Note: This is adapted from the author’s recently published article, “Israel’s Second War Doctrine,”…
Iran Is Too Much of a Mess to Acquire Russian Weaponry
Don’t believe news reports of huge arms deals News reports claim that the Islamic Republic of…
Lebanese and Other Nationalities in Lebanon: Population and Employment, 2011-2016
Paper prepared for the Economic Roundtable on “The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Lebanese…
Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters’
Critics see Saudi Arabia’s export of a rigid strain of Islam as contributing to terrorism, but…
Russia Uses an Iranian Air Base: Two Essays
By Mehdi Khalaji and Farzin Nadimi Two Iran experts discuss the political and military implications…
Russia Has Deployed Backfire Bombers to Iran
Tehran violates its own constitution to admit Russian forces On Aug. 15, 2016, six graceful…
Patrick Hickey, IOC executive, has bath interrupted by police arresting him over alleged illegal ticket sales plot
A senior international Olympic official was taken to a hospital Wednesday after police came to his…
Where did they go wrong?
The anniversary of the Rabaa massacre highlights the Muslim Brotherhood’s fatal miscalculations following the 2013…
The Race to Aleppo
As usual in such cases, the reaction of loyalist and Russian air force commanders to…
Aleppo: Is the Turnaround Sustainable for the Rebels?
Anti-Assad forces can relish a victory, but their stated aspiration to hold the entire city…
Turkish Coup Plotters Lost the Battle of Perception
Military coup attempt failed to control information by ROBERT BECKHUSEN A military coup attempt…
Iran Sticks to Terms of Nuclear Deal, but Defies the U.S. in Other Ways
DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — A year after President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the worst…
Harrowing Second Lebanon War battle immortalized in recently declassified audio
The Battle of Bint Jbeil in Southern Lebanon was a major event in the Second…
Syrian Rebel Missileers Are Wreaking Havoc on Bashar Al Assad’s Air Force
Shoot-downs are piling up During the night of June 26 and 27, 2016, insurgents from…
The Iran Jetliner Illusion
Why Airbus and Boeing may be chasing fool’s gold Richard Aboulafia Unless the Farnborough Airshow…
Words Matter in the Fight Against Islamism
The U.S. government needs to be clearer about the distinctions between Islam, political Islamism, and…
Who is Iran’s New Armed Forces Chief of Staff?
The appointment of one of the IRGC’s youngest generals can be seen as a sign…
Rich Russian Might Grab the Interenational Shooting Federation
Just as one was thinking that FIFA takes the prize as the most scandal-ridden international…
The Hind Gunship Is One of Syria’s Worst Terror Weapons
Aging helicopters attack indiscriminately by TOM COOPER For three weeks starting in early June…
Key facts about the world’s refugees
BY PHILLIP CONNOR AND JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD The United Nations adopted a resolution in…
Kuwait files $1bn lawsuit against IOC over suspension
Kuwait has filed a lawsuit in a Swiss court seeking $1bn (£670m) in damages from…
Vision or Mirage? Saudi Arabia’s Ambitious Economic Plans
The deputy crown prince hopes his U.S. visit will help garner support for shifting the…
Israeli MI Chief: Another War Would Turn Lebanon Into ‘A Country of Refugees’
Military Intelligence chief Herzl Halevi said Wednesday that another war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would be…
There’s No Rush to Save the World’s Most Dangerous Dam
U.S. officials have warned a collapse of the Mosul Dam is inevitable without urgent repairs,…
Liebermen’s flexible future
The incoming Minister of Defense has been championing the idea of a comprehensive arrangement between…
The Southern Front in Syria: Washington Should Support Rebel Gains
For the past two years, Washington has focused its attention on northern Syria, where it…
Israel’s Army Goes to War With Its Politicians
Gadi Eisenkot, right, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem…
Hezbollah Knows Exactly Who’s Responsible for Their Commander’s Death
Gen. Qasem Soleimani is the commander of the Quds Force, the branch of Iran’s Revolutionary…
What’s Left of the Syrian Arab Air Force?
Captured Syrian MiG-23s at an Israeli museum. Photo via Wikipedia After five years of war,…
Gulf Coalition Targeting AQAP in Yemen
Coalition units and allied Yemeni forces have fought a successful and timely campaign to stem…
Sex Talk for Muslim Women
Mona Eltahawy CAIRO — After I gave a reading in Britain last year, a woman…
The Divide Over Islam and National Laws in the Muslim World
Varied views on whether Quran should influence laws in countries BY JACOB POUSHTER As strife…
Michael Knights Interview: What did the Gulf Coalition War Achieve in Yemen?
Michael Knights is a Boston-based Lafer fellow of The Washington Institute, specializing in the military…
Gulf Coalition Operations in Yemen (Part 1): The Ground War
The Saudi-led coalition has waged a dynamic campaign, but all actions so far constitute a…
Gulf Coalition Operations in Yemen (Part 3): Maritime and Aerial Blockade
By Nadav Pollak and Michael Knights The coalition has restricted Iranian resupply of the…
Gulf Coalition Operations in Yemen (Part 2): The Air War
Part 1 of this three-part PolicyWatch covered the ground campaign (seehttp://washin.st/1LMXKHC); part 3 will cover…