What is the situation on the ground? In just over a week, Syrian rebel forces seized much of Syria’s northwest from the government in a fast-moving attack. First, the rebels seized Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, then days later blazed through Hama ...
AEI's Danielle Pletka and Marc Thiessen address the foreign policy questions we're all asking in their podcast, What the Hell Is Going On?
We have seen some people returning to Syria. We also have a very fast-moving situation that we need to closely monitor. “And that is why like Germany, like France and like other countries, we have paused asylum decisions on cases from Syria while the Home Office reviews and monitors the...
has seized a large section of northern Iraqafter previously taking much of northeastern Syria with an eye toward establishing an Islamic state straddling the two countries. The situation on the ground is changing rapidly, but some patterns and explanations are now emerging:...
It started in Tunisia in December 2010, spread to Egypt in January, Bahrain and Yemen in February - then to Libya and Syria. The 'Arab Spring' became the hot summer of civil war in Libya and may yet end in a winter of unprecedented blood... J Mair,R Keeble - 《Arab Spring Journalis...
"Tell me," he says, "Why don't Sunnis and Shiites get along?" "Tell me," he says, "What's going on in Iraq?" "Tell me," he says, "What's up with Saudi and Syria and Iran?" "Tell me," he says, "Why do Muslims like bombs?" 我想说“奴隶,混蛋”,但我有一张车票,房租...
One would expect the growing scale and complexity of the conflict in the Middle East over the past decade to have eclipsed the fixation on Israel in the eyes of the press and other observers. Israel is, after all, a sideshow: The death toll in Syria in less than four years far exceeds...
with the wars in both Syria and Libya largely bankrolled by the Saudis and Qataris and the emergence of ISIS largely being a consequence of that. It has been reported, for example, that Wahhabi preachers from Saudi Arabia are frequently in Aleppo, Syria, preaching to the armed sava...
Image:Key locations in Syria as well as the Iraqi town of Al Qaim, where troops sought refuge. Former head of the British Army's chemical weapons unit, Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, said the timing is "no coincidence". "With Hezbollah much diminished, the Iranian proxy in the region, and al...
Related videoBlogger romanticizes life with ISIS Regardless of their exact role within the group, the threat of western women of becoming radicalized is looming large. Malik said countering the increasing number of women going to Syria to join ISIS requires not just debunking the romantic myths of...