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The Islamic State and Southeast Asia
A photo posted on Facebook showing a gathering of ISIS militants from Malaysia and Indonesia in Syria. The page has since been closed, the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict says. — PHOTO:...
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Tunnel Vision: How the Egyptian Army “Won” the War over Gaza
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, walks with then-Egyptian Minister of Defense Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi into the Ministry of Defense in Cairo April 24, 2013. Photo Credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo...
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Kurdish Leader Stresses America Is Supporting Terrorists in Syria
Photo Credit: Voice of America Syrian Kurdish Leader Sherkoh Abbas calls on the U.S. to stop supporting the PYD and the Islamists in Syria. He rejects the replacement of one dictator for another and...
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Whose Side is Turkey on?
In a new piece in the London Review of Books, Patrick Cockburn writes on the rise of the Islamic State — also known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — and elaborates in detail on the...
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Logistics of the Syrian and Iraqi War
Photo Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Carlos M. Vazquez Even if war is not always good for business, it is at least a business. Whether dealing in arms, antiquities,...
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Frailty and Gladiatorial Combat in Somalia
It is that cyclical season of winner takes all. It is that all too familiar gladiatorial executive combat all over again. Yes, the Villa Somalia has once again turned into a roaring amphitheater. The...
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Mesopotamia at Versailles
This year, the centenary of the start of World War I, has seen reexaminations of its immediate causes. Reexamination of the historic peace attempted at its conclusion, however, is even more relevant...
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A Comprehensive Analysis of the Islamic State (IS)
Some describe it as the result of a disengaged American foreign policy, some look at it as a byproduct of an aggressive post-Saddam Iranian foreign policy in the region, and then there are those who...
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The Plight of Homosexuals in Egypt
Tel Aviv. (Photo Credit: Ted Eytan) Eight Egyptian men were sentenced to three years in prison plus three years on probation for allegedly attending Egypt’s first same-sex wedding. The harsh sentence...
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Homegrown Jihadis, Terror, and Modernity
The banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria On Nov. 15, ISIS beheaded a fifth western captive, aid worker Peter Kassig, who may have fought his killers and disrupted their filming of the event....
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Burkina Faso: The Black Spring blossoms
Compaore and Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon in 2013 – (c) Flickr With Western leaders occupied by rising tensions in Ukraine and the Middle East, it appears that the emergence of uprisings on the African...
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The Mubarak Retrial: Winners and Losers
On Nov. 29, an Egyptian court cleared charges against the country’s former president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt from 1981 to 2011, when he stepped down in the face of massive protests and the loss...
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Is the Hashemite Monarchy a good partner in the war against Islamic State?
The Hashemites claim to be part of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, but evidence has emerged showing that the regime is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, who supports Islamic State. As we...
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Islam’s Struggle for Space
“We see everything as this or that, plus or minus, on or off, black or white; and we fragment reality into an endless of either-ors. In a phrase we think the world apart” – Parker Palmer Though in...
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Muslim Congress to Back Opposition in Sri Lankan Elections
Sri Lankan Muslims seek sanctuary following a rampage by Buddhist mobs last June that many blame the Bodu Bala Sena or Buddhist Power Force, a Sri Lankan Buddhist ultranationalist movement, for...
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