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ARMIN ROSEN Business Insider Iraq and Syria is no longer exist as coherent, unitary states. By now, followers of events in the Middle East have grown used to maps that show how ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Free Syrian Army, the Assad regime, the Baghdad government, the Kurdistan Regional …

JACK MURPHY, SOFREP There are a lot of puzzled expressions on people’s faces when it comes to the subject of the late Osama Bin Laden and why the White House has not authorized the release of any pictures of the body. Photographs and video were released of Saddam …

  BILL GERTZ, THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON Shamil Zhumatov/ReutersRussian Tu-95 bombers fly during a joint Kazakh-Russian military exercise at Otar military range, some 150km (93 miles) west of Almaty, October 3, 2008. Two Russian nuclear-capable bombers intruded into the U.S. air defense zone near Alaska last week in …

PAMELA ENGEL Business Insider The head of the Islamic State is still incapacitated from a spinal injury, and the new leader of the terrorist group is intent on “fighting back” against Europe, according to a new report by Martin Chulov in The Guardian. Kareem Shaheen at The Guardian …

By: Mary Habeck In my first post on the quarrel between al-Qaeda and ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham), I laid out the depth of the problem facing al-Qaeda. In this post, I’ll take a brief look back at the origins and root causes of the …

Alexander Korolkov After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Navy was degraded and to all intents and purposes became nothing more than a coastal fleet. Today, due to limited economic resources, Russia has to focus on protecting its longest coastline – the Arctic. With this in …

Israel’s president, Reuven Rivlin, took two steps forward when he met with Israeli Armenian leaders on April 24 but one step back when he failed to characterize the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks for what it was — genocide. As …

The European Union is once again struggling to come up with a coherent asylum strategy for its 28 members. In recent years, the rising number of asylum seekers entering the European Union through countries such as Italy and Greece has generated friction among member states, fueled criticism of the …

BY NABEEL KHOURY President Barack Obama, in his interview with Tom Friedman on April 5, was at his intellectual best. He convincingly explained the framework agreement with Iran while stressing serious strategic disagreement with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamene’i. Tom Friedman, in turn, was at his diplomatic best, …