On the 3rd of January Iran and its allies reacted with outrage over the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. In the political ramble that ensued short afterwards, Iran vowed to take revenge over the IRGC's Quds Force leader’s death. Needless
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The Forgotten War: Genocide of the Yazidi people
With tensions on edge in the Middle East, cultural and ethical diversities have been recognized as the basis of tensions in the region since the beginning of time. While mass media outlets provide headline news on the fluid changes in
Why the killing of Qasem Soleimani isn’t war
Qasem Soleimani, who was the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force was killed in a US drone strike on the 3nd of January 2020. Killed with him was Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the
A history of violence; teaching a new generation how not to resolve conflicts
Back in 2016 I wrote the article below as a dire warning for the children that were being subjected to the Syrian conflict in all its forms, as well as to what it means for us internationally. Now, three years
Winning the Peace in Iraq Don’t Give Up on Baghdad’s Fragile Democracy
By Linda Robinson Rescue mission: Mike Pompeo in Baghdad, January 2019Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / Reuters 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
Gulf-Israel Ties Might Not Survive Trump’s Peace Plan
BY DANIEL B. SHAPIRO, YOEL GUZANSKY Saudi Minister of State Mohammed al-Shaikh arrives for the second day of a U.S.-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Bahrain on June 26. SHAUN TANDON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES The U.S.-sponsored Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, last month—an
The Last War—and the Next? Learning the Wrong Lessons From Iraq By Jon Finer
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
Investigative story on ISIS Germany
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
The New Containment Handling Russia, China, and Iran
By Michael Mandelbaum The quarter century following the Cold War was the most peaceful in modern history. The world’s strongest powers did not fight one another or even think much about doing so. They did not, on the whole, prepare for
Goodbye Morsi?
It was of course a matter of time before the polity in Egypt would go to the streets again. The writing has been on the wall for some time, yet despite the many warnings from both the international community and