It was 2005, and the world was looking brighter. Lebanon kicked out Syria’s army, Ukraine had a pro-West, pro-democracy revolution, Libya was in the midst of deconstructing their weapons of mass destruction and the world’s powerful bad guys seemed to…
There’s a rising threat in Iraq, and it has designs on not only taking Iraq’s capital, not only on establishing a new extremist Islamic kingdom from Iraq to Lebanon, but ultimately on attacking Americans as well. The Islamic State of…
Remember Iraq? Remember all the claims that the violence there was due to the US troops helping to rebuild the country? Well, apparently not. With US troops out of Iraq, Al-Qaeda has “returned with a vengeance” according to a letter…
Well, Iran has learned one thing from Syria so far: The West is beatable. That was the rhetoric coming from Iran on Monday after the United States and Europe shifted from plans to strike Syria over its chemical weapons attack…
The Syrian opposition is appearing increasingly fractured and complicated, even as some in the West seek to publicly prop up the rebel leadership. With internal divisions already prevalent, the recent announcement that one of the major backers of the fight…
The United States confirmed on Sunday that flights from Iran to Syria via Iraqi airspace are carrying more than humanitarian aid, with the US convinced arms and fighters are being sent from Iran to back the Bashar al-Assad regime. US…