Regional, World War Possible as Israel Continues to Provoke Full-Scale Confrontation with Syria

Regional, World War Possible as Israel Continues to Provoke Full-Scale Confrontation with Syria

The war in Syria is heating up yet again with signs that the conflict may soon be about to take greater international dimensions. This is all due to greater Israeli participation and aggression in Syria against the Syrian military and on the behalf of terrorist organizations fighting against the Syrian government. The questions that remain,…

Wahhabism to ISIS: How Saudi Arabia Exported the Main Source of Global Terrorism

Wahhabism to ISIS: How Saudi Arabia Exported the Main Source of Global Terrorism

Although IS is certainly an Islamic movement, it is neither typical nor mired in the distant past, because its roots are in Wahhabism, a form of Islam practised in Saudi Arabia that developed only in the 18th century. As the so-called Islamic State demolishes nation states set up by the Europeans almost a century ago,…

Keeping the Myth and the Islamic State Alive

Keeping the Myth and the Islamic State Alive

Joint Syrian-Russian-Iranian operations against foreign-funded and armed militant groups across Syrian territory have incrementally dismantled and frustrated the fighting capacity of groups including the so-called Islamic State, Al Nusra, Al Qaeda, and a myriad of other fronts coordinated and arrayed from abroad against Damascus. With the Russian intervention in late 2015, considerable air power was…

Donald Trump will Make His Own Mistakes in the Middle East

Donald Trump will Make His Own Mistakes in the Middle East

It is no secret that the new American administration did not inherit the best situation in the Middle East. The policies of ex-President Obama were confusing and inconsistent. The declared goals and means used in their realisation were badly correlated between them. Attempts to transform Iran the enemy into a partner did not bring Washington…