Selected Opinion

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’ [...]

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 [...]