Touch upon this story Remark ANTAKYA, Turkey — Six days after an enormous earthquake killed greater than 28,000 in Syria and Turkey, sorrow and disbelief are turning to ang… Read More

The village of Ghajar (pronounced Raajar from the Arabic) until last week was forbidden for the Israeli public to visit. Entry used to be restricted to residents only or to those with specia… Read More

In a move that can only be described to be unusual, leaders of the Syrian Alawites sect that President Bashar al-Assad lead, have released a document which t… Read More

In October 2011 and February 2012 the US-NATO alliance, with the support of the Gulf autocracies, tried to obtain UN Security Council resolutions, which in all probability would have served… Read More

BEIRUT: When the Arab revolts that were sweeping the region and toppling autocrats like dominoes reached Syria, Bashar al-Assad‘s days at the helm looked numbered. Ten years on howe… Read More

In a piece earlier this week I mentioned Albert Einstein's definition of political insanity: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  One… Read More

Foreword. I started out to write a brief history. I failed. It turned into a lengthy document which is still only a superficial history. I hope you can persevere and come to the end of the p… Read More

Hizbullah has succeeded in establishing 4 permanent coaching bases, which additionally function ammunition depots, and brief and medium-range missile bases, three of which are in Daraa and… Read More

The teenager’s name was given as Hudhayfah al-Badri in a death notice published on a social media feed of its unofficial news agency Amaq.The death notice said that the boy was killed… Read More

The Chaotic Arab World Has Nothing to Offer IsraelBy Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai KedarDecember 7, 2017FacebookTwitterPrintEmailMore225Flag map of the Arab League, image via Wikimedia Commo… Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo / APNoah Feldman, a Bloomberg View columnist, is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard.• Russian President Vladimir… Read More

By Dan Miller Well thought out red lines can be drawn, successfully. Ill conceived red lines can easily make a bad situation much worse. An article from Stratfor is republished following my… Read More