Selected Opinion

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’ [...]

By Middle East Briefing – Therefore, the role of time had to be dosed carefully by the producer to avoid turning it from an ally to an enemy. But the moment Mr. Putin was writing the plot [...]

By Joe Parkinson – The Wall Street Journal – Five years ago, Turkey was a beacon of hope for the troubled Middle East—not only one of the world’s fastest-growing economies but also [...]

By John J. Metzler – World Tribune – In a joint briefing on the elections, representatives of both the Geneva-based UN Watch and New York’s Human Rights Foundation said some such [...]

By David Andrew Weinberg – The Hill – Saudi textbooks have long been identified as a potential source of incitement to terrorism around the world by current or former U.S. officials. [...]

By World Tribune – These troops left an Iraq that was, according to another former Obama Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, “in pretty good shape…because we had a presence and we had [...]

By Jennifer Rubin – The Washington Post – That has been his approach to fighting the Islamic State. He initially called it the “JV.” Critics demanded action. He allowed them about [...]

By Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept – Earlier this month, the BBC published an article describing the increase in weapons and money sent by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf regimes [...]

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam – Unfortunately, Walt’s analysis appears to be driven by a policy calculus, rather than an honest appraisal of respected scholarship or serious research. With this [...]

By Youssef Sidhom – Watani – Copts especially look forward to new legislation that would translate the equality stipulated in the 2014 Constitution into laws securing their rights as [...]