Informed foreign policy and economic experts rightly fear one gathering threat today even more than genocidal attacks by the purported Islamic State and its shadowy network of affiliates: the possibility that Russia, an ever expanding power, could one day provide military and diplomatic cover to Iran as that nation contrives to topple the monarchy in Saudi Arabia, and subsequently extends control by force over other energy-rich Arab kingdoms, including United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain.
by Charles Ortel19 Feb 2015, 9:31 AM PST0
A legislative floor debate on a controversial homeland security bill rapidly descended into chaos in Turkey late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, with ruling Islamist AKP party members fiercely beating opposition party members and using the ceremonial gavel to break ribs.
by Frances Martel19 Feb 2015, 8:42 AM PST0
China’s government-run Xinhua news service gives us the Politburo’s thoughts about the threat of “violent extremism,” repeatedly referring to the U.S. as a “terrorist breeder.”
by John Hayward18 Feb 2015, 2:07 PM PST0
An estimated two-thirds of Americans think U.S. boots on the ground are necessary to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a NBC News/Marist poll found.
by Edwin Mora15 Feb 2015, 8:32 PM PST0
Many Americans were surprised to see the Obama administration get caught flat-footed again in the volatile Arab World when a Shiite Muslim Houthi rebel group, with ties to Iran’s terrorist state, overthrew Yemen’s government.
by Fred Gedrich15 Feb 2015, 3:53 PM PST0
The Saudi Arabian government released Mayssa al-Amoudi and Loujain al-Hathloul from jail after 72 days after being imprisoned for driving. Women are not allowed to drive in the country.
by Mary Chastain13 Feb 2015, 7:50 PM PST0
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized a large army base in a dawn attack in southern Yemen on Thursday, militants and residents said, hours after the United Nations warned that the country was on the brink of civil war.
by Reuters13 Feb 2015, 6:46 AM PST0
While the American media fretted over the career futures of Brian Williams and Jon Stewart, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to Egypt in a decade, exploiting America’s increasingly tenuous relationship with its long-time ally. In less than two weeks, Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Egypt and its new President, Adbel al-Sisi. America is on the cusp of losing Egypt.
by Mike Flynn12 Feb 2015, 7:12 AM PST0
President Barack Obama is asking Congress for an authorization of force for military operations against the Islamic State, but promised he doesn’t plan to put “boots on the ground.”
by Charlie Spiering11 Feb 2015, 1:21 PM PST0
Washington, D.C.– The Defeat Jihad Summit convened a panel of distinguished experts discussed strategies to defeat the Global Jihad Movement, including Speaker Newt Gingrich, Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS), Congressman Steve King (R-IA) and Andy McCarthy.
by Jordan Schachtel11 Feb 2015, 10:22 AM PST0
Canada’s army reportedly lost track of $513,000 worth of artillery shells while stationed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
by Edwin Mora9 Feb 2015, 5:06 PM PST0
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama has “acted as if the biggest threat to American security” in the Middle East is Israel on Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel. “For the last six years, Obama has acted
by Ian Hanchett9 Feb 2015, 4:15 PM PST0
Dr. Andrew Bostom, an independent scholar and recognized authority on Islamic anti-Semitism, spoke on February 4th to the Lawfare Project on Iran’s “Annihilationist” ideology and the theocratic reasoning behind their intentions to destroy Israel.
by Spyridon Mitsotakis9 Feb 2015, 8:45 AM PST0
Jordan’s government is executing their vow to “eradicate” the Islamic State: hundreds of sorties later, Jordanian military officials believe that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the terrorist group, is in hiding because he is “frightened” that an airstrike will kill him.
by Frances Martel9 Feb 2015, 8:39 AM PST0
Even the most die-hard optimists will have trouble remaining optimistic after reading what the Israel Defense Forces’ military intelligence forecasts for 2015. To sum it up in three words: an ongoing mess — at least according to outgoing director of the Military Intelligence research division, Brig. Gen. Itai Brun.
by Breitbart News9 Feb 2015, 6:22 AM PST0
Al-Qaeda is condemning ISIS’s “deviance” following the burning of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh.
by Frances Martel6 Feb 2015, 10:24 AM PST0
Four years into the great experiment of American withdrawal and cowardice, the Middle East has been transformed.
by Ben Shapiro3 Feb 2015, 8:13 PM PST0
President Barack Obama told the Today Show the United States is working to release a 26-year-old American woman from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). The terrorists captured the woman on August 30.
by Mary Chastain3 Feb 2015, 6:00 PM PST0
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party recently released a wildly popular campaign commercial in which a couple expecting a babysitter is greeted instead by the “Bibi-Sitter.”
by Jordan Schachtel3 Feb 2015, 10:32 AM PST0
President Obama said that while “we are safer” there has been a “breakdown in order” in the Middle East in an interview broadcast on Monday’s “Today” on NBC. “Yemen’s a tough situation. This is a country that’s always been fragile,
by Ian Hanchett2 Feb 2015, 6:48 AM PST0
The House of Representatives’ senior ranking Democrat, Nancy Pelosi, said on Wednesday she was concerned that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the U.S. Congress in March, it may result in negative ramifications for the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran.
by Jordan Schachtel29 Jan 2015, 9:21 AM PST0
Rather than attend the Screen Actors Guild awards this past weekend, Kevin Spacey opted to watch 34 Arab actors perform a play as part of his initiative to support local talent.
by Kelli Serio28 Jan 2015, 5:42 PM PST0
As the debate heats up between Congress and the Administration over new Iran sanctions and Houthi rebels take over Yemen’s government while the U.S. continues to battle the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria – there needs to be a different focus for a solution in the war against terrorism; and that could be a “Persian Spring.”
by Tera Dahl26 Jan 2015, 4:00 AM PST0
Mort Zuckerman, US News and World Report Chairman and Editor-in-Chief and publisher of the New York Daily News, declared that America’s credibility in the Middle East had been “virtually eliminated” on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” After fellow panelist Tom Rogan argued
by Ian Hanchett24 Jan 2015, 12:46 PM PST0
On Friday’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough pointed out a pattern in President Barack Obama’s rhetoric regarding the Middle East, especially Yemen. Previously, Obama had pointed to Yemen as a foreign policy success story. Scarborough noted that a lot of
by Jeff Poor23 Jan 2015, 6:46 AM PST0
