More: Syria
An answer to the chemical weapon blame game: Assad is neither mad nor an idiot
S hooting from the hip with unerring accuracy was the Wild West according to Hollywood. As anyone who has ever fired a pistol...
The Potential Threats Posed by ISIS’s Use of Weaponized Air Drones and How to Fight Back
Authors: Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. and Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. L ike every other recent technological advancement, commercial aerial drones entered to our daily...
Why Taking the Tabqa Dam is Important in the Fight against ISIS and Retaking of Raqqa
Authors: Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. This week U.S. Colonel Joseph E. Scrocca, a coalition public affairs officer and spokesman for...
Terrorism is back in Russia
T he attack on St. Petersburg’ subway system is certainly the worst terrorist attack that the Russian Federation has experienced - except for...
Fayez al-Sarraj’s attempt to take hold of NOC
O n March 24 last, al-Sarraj dissolved his Petroleum Ministry and formally acquired direct control over the National Oil Company (NOC), namely the...
Hezbollah and the war in Syria
T he war in Syria against Assad’s Alawites and his post-Baathist State began with the people’s uprising of March-April 2011. Mass demonstrations in...
All breaking beds of our most favoured aggressor
2 017 will be a challenging year for Saudi Arabia, who is losing its leadership in the Middle East and faces looming economic...
Israel and Saudi Arabia
I n Syria, on February 24 last, Iraq carried out its first bombing against Isis in the region of Abu Kemal, but the...
Turkey’s Crippled Counterterrorist Capacity: How Domestic Purges Represent an International Threat to Europe’s Security
T urkey has been suffering from terrorism for a long time, losing over 40,000 people in the last 40 years. When the Syrian...
Bosnian precariat, militaristic world images and media cynicism
F ascism is in full sweep around us. Writing about the ruins that left behind it, is the task of our time. Maybe...