Selected Opinion

It was rather about the failure of local officials to enforce the law and uphold State authority. I insisted this was a pitiful example of State feebleness and ineptness in the face of extremist, [...]

    These graduate students sense what many Middle East experts are beginning to vocalize: The region is caught in a turbulent vortex of change that’s likely to continue for many [...]

    One of the eyewitnesses, a Kassab resident, reported that “before sunrise, we woke up to the horror of a shower of missiles and rockets falling on our town” and that [...]

The Arab League is creating a new “response force” of some 40,000 military professionals from a variety of nations, and will reportedly be formally adopted in a couple of weeks at the [...]

In the predawn hours of Holy Thursday, four black-clad al-Shabab militants burst onto the campus of Garissa University College, a pluralistic outpost in a Muslim pocket of the largely Christian [...]

Yet in the weeks leading up to the March 28 election, leaders of the Christian churches in Africa’s most populous nation announced their support for Buhari. And since the former general [...]

Two years earlier, in 1916, the two allies had agreed on their respective zones of influence in a secret pact—known as the Sykes-Picot agreement—for divvying up the region. But now [...]

  Four years ago, Mariz, a Coptic woman in her 20s from Ain Shams, a lower middle class neighborhood in Cairo, was walking happily on her way to the Coptic Cathedral in Abbassiya in East [...]

  On the other hand, maybe not. AQAP is in flux. The Yemeni civil war and Saudi Arabia’s intervention in it offer AQAP many opportunities, but they also pose many pitfalls and could [...]