By Linda Robinson For Americans who came of age near the turn of the current century, the war in Iraq was a generation-defining experience. When the United States invaded the country in 2003, toppling the government of Saddam Hussein in a matter of weeks, many saw the war as a necessary or even noble endeavor to…
Category: Middle East
Gulf-Israel Ties Might Not Survive Trump’s Peace Plan
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BY DANIEL B. SHAPIRO, YOEL GUZANSKY The U.S.-sponsored Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, last month—an effort spearheaded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, to sell the economic portion of a broader Middle East peace plan—had limited success in its stated purpose of advancing Palestinian economic development. But it showed more…
The Last War—and the Next? Learning the Wrong Lessons From Iraq By Jon Finer
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Army published two volumes that amount to the most comprehensive official history of the Iraq war. They cover the conflict’s most important episodes: the U.S. invasion in 2003, the death spiral into civil war that took shape in the aftermath, the more hopeful period that began with the surge of U.S.…
Investigative story on ISIS Germany
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Reporter Jenan Moussa from Arabic Al Aan TV did a report on ISIS combatants in Germany. The story shows an in-depth report about the world of ISIS, radicalization and a problem most governments and subsequent societies are dealing with. What to do with radicalization and those who return after being enemy combatants. 1/ Here with…
