Selected Opinion

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – The politicians fulminate about defeating the terrorists, but they don’t talk much about the costs or sacrifices that will be required. The [...]

By The Washington Post – According to state officials, military action in the region is aimed at curbing PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the left-wing militant Kurdish group) violence. [...]

By Aaron David Miller – The Wall Street Journal – The Iran nuclear deal brings to mind, of all things, the Rolling Stones. The Stones were wrong when they sang that you can’t always [...]

By Abha Shankar – IPT – The think tank in question, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), twice has been the subject of law enforcement investigations, once during [...]

By Marwan Hisham – The New York Times – Although the city was besieged by rebels from the Free Syrian Army, as well as from Islamist groups like the Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, back [...]

By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs – World Tribune –  But a closer examination of U.S. policies, now almost entirely dictated by the Obama White House, [...]

By Samuel Helfont and Michael Brill – Foreign Affairs – One increasingly popular argument places the blame on the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. As blogger Kyle W. [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Monday, 11 January. Given the tight deadline and difficulty of reversing the [...]

By H. A. Hellyer and Dr. Nathan J. Brown – Many more Muslims follow institutions like Egypt’s al-Azhar than follow the Islamic State. But the search for an authority to counteract the [...]

By H.A. Hellyer – The Atlantic – In his recent Atlantic piece on “What to Do About ISIS,” Jonathan Powell, a former senior British diplomat, posits that eventually, the West would [...]