Middle East

Military success in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has concentrated the minds of political leaders in Washington and Tehran.  Neither ……Read More

Few international relationships express the dominance of ideology over realism with such clarity as the cold war that has persisted between Iran and the United ……Read More

While the Republicans have spent energy criticizing the Obama Administration for freeing terrorists in return for Bowe Bergdahl and the political right claims that President ……Read More

The regional and international race to contain the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the Naqshbandi Army in Iraq has been slow. Mosul was quickly ……Read More

The beleaguered Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, is the latest in the long list of the West’s favorite political leaders turned into pariahs. The ……Read More

A Kurdish flag has replaced the Iraqi flag flying over the disputed, oil-rich city of Kirkuk, in a clear symbol of how Iraq’s Kurds have benefited ……Read More