Selected Opinion

By The Wall Street Journal – Speaking at the Pentagon, the President noted that Islamic State had been hit by more than 5,000 air strikes, “lost more than a quarter of the populated areas [...]

By Mai el-Sadany – TIMEP – The 55-article counterterrorism draft law (1), which explicitly overrides a number of articles in the Penal Code including the long-standing Article 86 [...]

By Lord David Alton – In this centenary of those events it is worth reminding ourselves of how the Ottomans attempted to eradicate the Armenian Christians and perpetrated further acts of [...]

By Jeff Goodson – Background When long-time Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was swept out of office in 2011, he became one of the most consequential casualties of the Arab Spring. Muslim [...]

By Eyad Abu Shakra –  Some may link the Al-Sadiq Mosque bombing in Kuwait to the escalating sectarian tensions in the Gulf region—a direct result of the Khomeinist revolution sowing the [...]

By Charles Krauthammer – The Washington Post –  In pursuit of his desire to make the Islamic Republic into an accepted, normalized “successful regional power,” Obama decided to take [...]

By Edward G. Stafford – Aleteia – The demonstrated military and administrative capacity of ISIS, which proclaimed a worldwide caliphate this time last year, will hamper efforts to [...]

By Jacob Olidort – The Washington Institute – Ultimately, with Arab states banding together to confront perceived sources of the region’s spiraling instability, Salafi groups [...]

By Middle East Briefing Comparing the reality in the Middle East to some official statements in Washington that ISIL has lost momentum and is retreating, one should conclude that either what is [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – The Commentator  It’s noteworthy that Francis didn’t merely make a passing comment on global warming during this or that sermon, but that he issued a papal encyclical [...]