On Roman posters, papal blowback, and parallels with Trump
An anti-Pope Francis poster in central Rome, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. On Saturday, posters appeared…
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When towering rivals Rabin and Nasser met for lunch—in Rabin’s own words
A documentary film that premiered in New York last month unveils a chance encounter between…
Saddam Hussein Seriously Feared a U.S. Nuclear Strike During the Gulf War
And the United States encouraged that thinking Even before his regime invaded and annexed the oil-rich…
Making The U.S. State Department Great Again: Why A Trump Refit Could Be Good News
Much of the recent media coverage of the new Trump administration has an air of…
Erik Prince’s Mercenaries Are Bombing Libya
For-profit combat pilots fly Emirati Air Tractors On Jan. 11, 2017, Intelligence Online — a professional journal covering…
Rafsanjani’s Death Could Increase the IRGC’s Succession Role
Unlike in 1989, the Revolutionary Guards and other powerful Iranian institutions will probably play an…
Canada’s Pride: Exclusive interview with Richard McLaren
Its nice to be able to write a story where the Canadian sports officials are…
Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani dies
Cleric had been a pillar of the Islamic republic since the 1979 revolution ‘Reformists will…
Israel Plans to Counter Hezbollah With Hundreds of Surface-to-Surface Missiles
The Israeli Air Force disapproves Not unexpectedly, the IDF is developing its own missile response…
Ex-CIA director: I was sure if we didn’t strike Syria’s nuclear reactor, Israel would
Gen. Michael Hayden provides an inside look into the attack that stopped Assad’s nuclear ambitions…
Reformation Anniversary: Defining Protestant Identity
Attempts by Martin Luther (1483-1546) to reform the church from neighbouring Germany found fertile soil…
Russians No Longer Dispute Olympic Doping Operation
BY REBECCA R. RUIZ MOSCOW — Russia is for the first time conceding that its…
While The Administration Slept, Others Plotted
Asked recently about the absence of the United States from talks by Russia, Turkey and…
The unlikely saviors of Libya’s roman remains
LEPTIS MAGNA, Libya – Agence France-Press Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius Severus…
Here’s how Obama can hit back at Putin over hacking
President Barack Obama told reporters at his last news conference of 2016 that the United…
Israeli-Russian understandings put to the test
Analysis: Wednesday’s attack on a Syrian army outpost and Hezbollah arms convoy is seen as…
Blackmailed?: ANOC agree to make Hickey bail payment
The “Blackmailed?” with a question mark was not in the Insidethegames title, but we could not…
A Syria Policy for Trump
How Washington Can Get to a Settlement When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on…
Iran May Be Using Iraq and Syria as a Bridge to Lebanon
While liberating territory from the Islamic State is vital, the consequences of ceding portions of…
Alberto Fernandez: The war against jihad
What the West needs to understand about Middle East Islamo-Fascism by J.C. Derrick…
The KGB’s Middle East Files: Palestinians in the service of Mother Russia
Secret KGB documents reveal just how deeply involved the Soviet Union was in the spilling…
The Time Is Now For Urgent Middle East Reform
It is all too easy today to look at the Middle East and throw up…
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…