Selected Opinion

By Tamer El-Ghobashy – The Wall Street Journal Dahlia Kholaif in Cairo contributed to this article. Since Mr. Sisi came to power in a coup two years ago, his government has criminalized [...]

By Foreign Policy Why risk so much to go after Abu Sayyaf? For those outside of military and intelligence circles, Abu Sayyaf is an unknown, mid-level leader in ISIS.  However, the best way to [...]

By World Tribune Adding to the confusion are the attempt on the part of Iran to outflank the Sunni arc in Yemen, and the rampaging Sunni Islamic State athwart the Sh’ia arc. It would appear that [...]

By Russell Mead – The Wall Street Journal The Christian communities of Syria and Iraq have survived 2,000 years of tumult and war. In some of them, prayers are still said in Aramaic, the [...]

The Wall Street Journal Yet despite its ancient roots, the divide hasn’t been this deep or bloody for centuries. And it is only in recent years that it has emerged as the biggest fault line in [...]

By Samuel R. Berger , Stephen Hadley, James F. Jeffrey, Dennis Ross, and Robert Satloff – The Washington Institute on Near East Policy Multiple and overlapping conflicts are threatening [...]

By The Wall Street Journal Not that the ruling by the three-judge panel of the Second Circuit in New York lacks for errors of law and fact. The panel found that when the Patriot Act, passed in [...]

By Frank Wolf – 21 Wilberforce USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission established in 1998.  The legislation creating the Commission charged it with [...]

By Tony Cartalucci – Global Research The war in Syria continues to drag on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an opposition long portrayed as fractured and reflecting a [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Gatestone Institute Late on the evening of May 8, Newsmax TV announced that pressure from Americans acquainted with Sister Diana Momeka’s visa rejection has just caused [...]