Remembering Who Our Friends Are

Sarah Stern

In what has ironically been designated “Operation Olive Branch,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been trying to put the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin into a stranglehold.

Iraqi Kurdistan Four Months After the Referendum

Jonathan_Spyer

Four months on from the referendum which they had hoped would be a foundation stone for the building of statehood, Iraq’s Kurds are demoralized and facing an increasingly uncertain future.

Wanted: A Counter-Iran Strategy

Jonathan_Spyer

A common but mistaken reading of the current strategic situation in the Middle East presents the region as approaching the end of a period of instability. The “return of the Arab state” is one of the more arresting refrains that this perspective has produced.

The Obama Riots

Mordechai Kedar

Obama bears the real responsibility for bringing Iranians out into the streets, but where is Iran heading?