Selected Opinion

By Patrick Cockburn – Independent – How far is Saudi Arabia complicit in the Isis takeover of much of northern Iraq, and is it stoking an escalating Sunni-Shia conflict across the [...]

By Tom Hoopes – Aleteia – ISIS, the younger brother of Al Qaeda in the dysfunctional family of radical Islam, was once minimized as the “JV team” by President Obama. The JV just [...]

By Tarek Fatah – The Toronto Sun – Republished by Middle East Forum  On Nov. 12 — the day before the Paris terrorist attacks — two ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up [...]

By Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute – Republished by Middle East Forum – Slight edits were made to the original version of this article. Sadly, the free world feels [...]

By Alex Alexiev – American Thinker – Only a few days have passed since the terrorist bloodbath in Paris, but it is already clear that the conclusions France and the West have drawn [...]

By Judith Miller – City Journal – Germany has confirmed that plots to kill hundreds more were disrupted in the nick of time. France has extended its state of emergency for three [...]

By Kamel Daoud – The New York Times – This essay was translated by John Cullen from the French. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. In its struggle against terrorism, the West wages war [...]

By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – The Huffington Post – Republished by Middle East Forum The recent attacks in Paris carried out by the Islamic State have led to widespread speculation [...]

By Gerald F. Seib – The Wall Street Journal – It took French President François Hollande to flatly declare it: In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, the struggle against Islamic [...]

By Charles Krauthammer – The Washington Post – A Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the terrorists. Why was it there? Undoubtedly, to back up the ISIS boast that it is [...]