Selected Opinion

By The Wall Street Journal – Hossam Bahgat, a respected rights activist and journalist, was arrested Sunday for “publishing false news that harms national security,” according to a lawyer [...]

By Kevin Sullivan – Real Clear World – When the Islamic State group pushed into northern Iraq in the early summer of 2014, it swept up in its path many of the religious and ethnic [...]

By The New York Times – The warnings of a plot have been widely promoted by opinion-makers in print, online, and on TV, sometimes hinting and sometimes saying flat-out that the West has [...]

By Karl Vick – Time – If, as seems almost certain, the explosion that brought down a Russian passenger jet over Egypt’s Sinai peninsula was caused by a bomb, the finding will also [...]

By Jennifer Rubin – The Washington Post – This is one more piece of evidence that our approach to fighting the Islamic State (let’s not dignify it by calling it a “policy”) is [...]

By Middle East Forum – John Esposito, founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University, has signed an open [...]

By Steven A. Cook – Council on Foreign Relations – One need not have some special insight or training to understand that all has not been well in Egypt:  The garish Sisi-mania of [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – It may be some time before investigators in Egypt can confirm claims by Islamic State (ISIS) that it is responsible for the “downing” last weekend of a Russian [...]

By Con Coughlin – The Telegraph – David Cameron’s decision to cancel British flights to the Egyptian desert resort of Sharm el-Sheikh is not exactly the welcome President Abdel [...]

By Con Coughlin – The Telegraph – ‘Libya is a danger that threatens all of us. If there is no government then this only creates a vacuum where extremists can prosper’ [...]