How America can cut off Iran’s poisonous tentacles
ahmed sabirBy Amital Etzioni I join Michèle Flournoy, Hillary Clinton's would-be secretary of defense, who praised the nomination of Gen. James Mattis as secretary of defense. He seems to understand the…
There’s one key difference between the Second World War and the Syrian conflict
By:Robert Fisk The rebels of Aleppo are no heroes We refer to them as 'rebels' as if they were the Maquis fighting in the French resistance or Partisans freeing Yugoslavia from…
A new path to peace in the Middle East?
By: Charles C. Krulak Training young Israeli and Arab leaders together shatters the Cold War mentality. As a young Marine captain commanding a rifle company in Vietnam, I had the…
What Aleppo’s fall means for the region
By : Osama Al-Sharif The long battle for the eastern sector of Aleppo is virtually over. We all know its eventual outcome. It will take a few more days and…
How can we deal with Yemen’s Houthis ?
ahsanBy Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Nearly two decades ago, a small group hailing from northern Yemen established relations with Iran, encouraged by the then President Ali Abdullah Saleh, as a part of…
Why Saddam and Gaddafi failed to get the bomb
By Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer Imagine if Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi had nuclear weapons in 2003. The invasion of Iraq may not have been possible, and states would have been much…
City of Killers The Battle for Tal Afar
By Patrick Cockburn Tal Afar is a small city notorious for sectarian hatred and slaughter, which may soon be engulfed by a final battle between Isis and its bitterest enemies.…
US-Russian relations are about to change what next for Syria and eastern Europe?
Short-term peace for PR purposes, long-term ego clashes Vadimir Putin was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Donald Trump on becoming the 45th President of the United States.…
US scraps plan to punish Syria for using chemical weapons
With an assist from Moscow, Damascus could dodge sanctions for gassing its own people By Colum L Ynch The Obama administration has throttled back its diplomatic push to make Syria…
It’s not Donald Trump who matters now in the Middle East it’s Putin
By Robert Fisk It is easy to say that the Arabs are appalled that an Islamophobe has won the White House. But did they think Obama or any of his…