The U.S.-Iranian Confrontation on the Syria-Iraq Borders: Interview with an...
Besides the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces operations with U.S. coalition support to capture the Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, the other major hot-spot to watch at the moment...
View ArticleU.S. Strategy and Israel’s Stake in Eastern Syria
The downing on June 18th of a Syrian Air Force SU-22 by a UA Navy F-18 Super Hornet over the skies of northern Syria sharply raises the stakes in the emergent stand-off in the country. This stand-off...
View ArticleStormclouds over Syria
In the past five weeks, U.S. forces in Syria have struck directly at the Assad regime and its allies in Syria no less than four times. On May 18, U.S. warplanes struck regime and allied militia forces...
View ArticleTrump’s Mideast Peace Plan Is Crashing Against Political Reality
Both Israelis and Palestinians are chafing under the Trump administration’s plans to revive the long-moribund peace process. Jared Kushner’s shuttle diplomacy to the Holy Land late last month may have...
View ArticleIsrael’s Secret Arab Allies
TEL AVIV — United States and Israeli officials seem convinced that a regional peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world may be in the offing. On his recent trip to the Middle East, President...
View ArticleSyria: Assessing the CIA Program
Recent news of the Trump administration's decision to end the CIA program of assistance to select Syrian rebel groups has sparked debate about the decision-making process and its soundness. In a report...
View ArticleIs Washington Ceding Syria to Russian Influence?
Goodbye ‘Timber Sycamore’: What will the end of the CIA program providing support to Syria’s rebels mean for the future direction of the Syrian conflict? President Donald Trump recently appeared to...
View ArticleGrowing Up in War Zones, a Review of Shooting Ghosts: A US Marine and a...
‘Shooting Ghosts’ is a joint memoir, depicting the friendship, experience of war and trauma and long road to recovery of two very different individuals. Finbarr O’Reilly is a veteran Canadian...
View ArticleIran’s Hand and Iraq’s Kirkuk Offensive
With ISIS out of the way, underlying tensions have come to the surface. On Sunday October 15, the Pentagon encouraged Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga to “avoid...
View ArticleYemen and U.S. Policy: Serious Rethinking Is Imperative
Warnings of a potential large-scale famine in Yemen following a Saudi naval and air blockade that the Saudis have agreed to ease have brought that country's dire humanitarian situation to the forefront...
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