Selected Opinion

By Nina Shea – National Review  In a blitzkrieg of mass deportations, beheadings, women-slave auctions, and imprisonment of children, ISIS captured Mosul on June 10, 2014, and from there [...]

By Gary Sick – Politico The level of turmoil in the Middle East is greater than at any other time in my nearly fifty years of watching this region. Amid this perfect storm comes the most [...]

By Michael Knights – Foreign Policy That last point is exactly the problem. The United States is constantly redoubling its efforts, because it’s drip feeding support to Iraq at a time when [...]

By Eric Trager – The Washington Institute for Near East Policy The delegation is being hosted by the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), which hosted a similar delegation in [...]

By The Wall Street Journal Even as the United States struggles to combat Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, swift U.S. action is urgently needed in these new Islamic State outposts to stop [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online  This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday 2 June. Yet again news comes of Coptic families expelled from their villages, [...]

By Mada Masr Controversial TV host Islam al-Beheiry deserves to be in prison, as his ideas endangered “faith security,” Al-Azhar Dean of Sciences Abdel Moneim Fouad told the privately owned [...]

By Alberto M. Fernandez – MEMRI Strangely enough, there was very little press coverage on the bulk of the 29-minute video – 24 minutes of it – that focused not on the killings themselves [...]

By Marco Rubio – The Washington Post The Middle East is more dangerous and unstable than when Obama came into office — a time when Iraq and Syria were more stable, the Iranian nuclear [...]

By John McLaughlin – The Washington Post But let’s test that proposition and think for a minute about what it would take for the group to win. What would success look like for the Islamic [...]