The right way to pressure Iran
There is little doubt about where President Trump stands on the nuclear deal with Iran. During the campaign, he called the agreement — what we…
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Israel Has a Playbook for Dealing With North Korea
Israel and North Korea are on opposite sides of the Asian landmass, separated by 5,000 miles as the ICBM flies. But Israelis feels close to…
Syrian army moves closer to ISIL-held Deir Az Zor
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has focused this year on striking eastwards in a multipronged assault against ISIL, or the Islamic State of Iraq and the…
Over 40,000 Syrian refugees living in Turkey returned home for Eid
Syrian refugee Mohamed Hajj Steifi hasn’t been home for a year, but this week he made the trip across the Turkish border to celebrate the…
US, Iraq sanction Mosul finance emir believed to be in Turkey
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The United States has economically sanctioned the ISIS finance emir for Mosul Salim Mustafa Muhammed Al-Mansur, an Iraqi national, who is…
Iran, and a diplomacy deficit
The multipronged tensions in the Middle East have disturbing echoes of the immediate post 9/11 period. After the attacks that day in New York and…
Al Qaeda affiliate mining uranium to send to Iran
An Al Qaeda affiliate has seized control of uranium mines in Africa with the intent of supplying the material to Iran, according to a diplomatic…
Trump calls Saudi King Salman, urges to find solution to Qatar dispute
US President Donald Trump has called on Saudi King Salman and “all the parties in the Qatar dispute” to find a diplomatic solution to the…
Obama’s Mideast legacy: Iran’s puppets all around Israel with war on the way
There are some mistakes for which the world never seems to stop paying. When the United States chose to let Syria slide into chaos while…
Russian FM Lavrov begins Gulf tour
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Kuwait on Sunday as part of a Gulf tour that the Russian foreign ministry said would also include…