Sectarian Warfare

The US and a Crumbling Levant

Published by Emile Nakhleh 5 Comments

by Emile Nakhleh The international media is currently mesmerized by the advance of Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) on the Syrian city of Kobani near the Turkish border, but Arab states and the US need to look beyond Kobani’s fate and… Continue Reading →

Iraq Retakes Washington Centre-Stage, Briefly

Published by Jim Lobe 1 Comment

by Jim Lobe via IPS News Ten and a half years after invading U.S. troops ousted President Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime, Iraq re-emerged here this week, if only briefly, as a major foreign policy agenda item. The occasion was the… Continue Reading →