More: Syria
On ‘errors’ of judgment
I t was Gandhi who said: "An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because...
Opinio Juris: The Missing Link in Trump’s strike on Syria
O n 7th April, the United States announced the firing of 59 tomahawk missiles each armed with 1000 pounds of explosives at the...
Tillerson visits Moscow: A New “Yalta” during the Trump and Putin Administrations?
U .S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in the Russian capital Moscow on Wednesday, April 12 for talks with Russian Foreign Minister...
The United Nations Needs To Do Their Job
W hen a small band of Deep State criminals and hooligans can manage to literally hijack the most powerful country on earth,...
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...