Selected Opinion

According to Baha’s brother, Cyril, the Coptic soldier had recently told him that he had gotten into arguments with other Muslim soldiers in his unit and that one had threatened him with death. [...]

By Burak Bekdil – Middle East Forum – In August, possibly the first cheerful news containing the words “Turkey” and “Egypt” hit the headlines in the Turkish [...]

According to a recent NPR report, the U.S. supported “moderate” coalition fighting both Bashar Assad and the Islamic State in Syria “has extremists in its own ranks who have mistreated Christians [...]

By Bernard-Henri Lévy – The Wall Street Journal – This op-ed was translated from the French by Steven B. Kennedy. I spent last week with the Kurdish Peshmerga as they battled Islamic [...]

By Thomas L. Friedman – The New York Times – The Washington Post ran a story last week about some 200 retired generals and admirals who sent a letter to Congress “urging lawmakers to [...]

By Ziad Bahaa-Eldin – Ahram Online – This article was published in Arabic in El-Shorouq newspaper on Tuesday, 1 September. Law 107/2013 banning peaceful protests is of the latter [...]

By Global Research via AINA – It was in Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle(DW)’s report, “‘IS’ supply channels through Turkey,” that [...]

By Aleteia – Disconcerting news about ISIS was recently published. First, it was alleged that ISIS used chemical weapons against the Kurds in Syria. Second, that it had gained control of an [...]

By David Brooks – The New York Times – The ISIS atrocities have descended like distant nightmares upon the numbed conscience of the world. The first beheadings of Americans had the [...]

By Dan de Luce – Foreign Policy – Looking out over rows of young American soldiers sitting in a dusty hall in Baghdad, the U.S. military’s top-ranking officer had a few questions for [...]