How the Assad regime has managed to survive the revolution, for the time being and in contrast to other recent upheavals in the Middle East… Continue reading
The battle over the Syrian town Ras al-Ain on the border to Turkey damaged Turkish relations with the Kurds in Syria, and with parts of Syrian opposition… Continue reading
To understand what happened one must examine the long negotiations on this issue… Continue reading
Much has been made of the Palestinian exodus of 1948. Yet during their decades of dispersal, the Palestinians have experienced no less traumatic ordeals at the hands of their Arab brothers… Continue reading
Should Iran give more importance to Syria than to the Khuzestan region… Continue reading
Cairo conference to support Arab minority in Khuzestan region stirs up Arab-Sunni and Persian-Shia animosity… Continue reading
Is there any Middle Eastern Muslim-majority country where Islamism is being defeated?… Continue reading
The Turkish-Iranian relationship is primed for problems due to differing geopolitical and sectarian interests… Continue reading
Reining in the Gülenists can be seen as a welcome development, but it will also consolidate Erdoğan’s already alarming monopolization of power… Continue reading
A report on the alleged aggressions by the Arab states in the period just before the Israeli War of Independence… Continue reading
We are continually told that Obama’s policy has been supportive of democracy and human rights, but this is not true at all… Continue reading
Open letter to President Obama by Bahieddin Hassan… Continue reading
My main goal of forty years of Middle East analysis has been trying to explain the Middle East as it actually exists, how its politics work, and how its history can be understood… Continue reading
The massacre of the Ottoman Armenians helped persuade the Nazis to exterminate national minorities as well… Continue reading
Is U.S. Middle East policy aligned with the ‘Sunni bloc’ in a grand sectarian alliance against the ‘Shi’ite crescent’?… Continue reading
People who believe the Arabic-speaking world is heading toward democracy don’t understand that Islamist forces are unleashed quite willing to engage in violence until total triumph… Continue reading
Obama should have to pay for his pro-Islamist behavior in public opinion and the loss of congressional support… Continue reading
Why didn’t Obama go at a time when it would presumably have benefited him politically… Continue reading
The Spanish authorities are trying to remove Imran Firasat from Spain, even though they are aware that he very well might be killed in Pakistan or Indonesia for blasphemy… Continue reading
Erdoğan is not going to initiate a divorce from the EU, but he may very well hope that the Europeans will “relieve” Turkey… Continue reading
2012 will likely be remembered as the year that Islamists made the greatest gains in their quest for a new caliphate in the region… Continue reading
Much is made of the grand strategy of the Turkish-Kurdish energy puzzle… Continue reading
The story of Yemen’s Christians is a microcosm of the story of Islam’s Christians… Continue reading
Israel forces carried out a strike overnight on a convoy coming from Syria in the Lebanon-Syria border area… Continue reading
U.S. intelligence community ponders the impact of Turkey’s growing significance in global affairs… Continue reading
Kerry isn’t just wrong, he’s totally clueless… Continue reading
The AKP is conducting a “psychological war” rather than sincerely trying to solve the Kurdish Issue… Continue reading
The Western left were for decades apologists for repression carried out by the USSR, Soviet bloc, and other communist dictatorships, and now they are apologists for Islamist repression carried out against Arab leftists… Continue reading
An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead… Continue reading
Clinton’s show of indifference isn’t just a question of distracting attention or callousness, it is a clear symptom of exactly what is wrong with the Obama Administration’s handling of this and other issues… Continue reading
The notion of a Sunni-Shi’ite conflict is not the only perceived dichotomy at play in the Syrian civil war… Continue reading
The Syrian civil war will go on until one side wins and the other loses. And a lot more people are going to die… Continue reading
What can the United States can do to counteract the glaring Islamization of rebel ranks… Continue reading
Cheibani has been accused of various kidnappings and terrorist killings… Continue reading
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