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Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
The Middle East is the only region where all three kinds of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) have been used and developed. Accusations, allegations,...
ISIS Expansion hits a Dead-end
It's been a year since ISIS declared its caliphate, which is a form of an Islamic government headed by a political and religious successor...
Kurds, The Invisible people
Oppression, denial of existence, prohibition of usage of mother language in public, the press and institutions, forced relocations, no recognition, fear of expressing identity,...
State of confusion on the edge of total collapse
Four years of fighting and no concrete solutions coming from regional, international actors or organizations, not a single action and agreement reached so far...
Blue Peace in the Middle East
With Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Palestine crises making daily headlines in the Middle East, it is easy to forget about the structural challenges that...
Jihadi Janes and Johns: The Seduction of the Islamic State for ‘Westerners’
Media outlets and government circles cringe when trying to understand why Westerners leave the West to go fight in Syria and Iraq with the...
“Top Secret” Turkey is No Secret
In 2013, Turkey hosted about a dozen conferences on cyber security and new technologies to counter cyber threats. In a speech at the end...
Syria: Talk is of peace but preparations are for war
With growing demands for the international community to arm and support Syrian opposition groups, a regional expert speaking at the World Economic Forum on...
Lebanon: A welcoming land weakened by the Syrian crisis
Syria is going through its third autumn of civil war, where the indiscriminate brutality from both sides is matched only the complexity of the...