Lawful but awful

13 years ago

I don't usually get worked up over the drone wars and killing terrorists.  I'd rather see many of them dead…

Finitiatives

13 years ago

Ammar Abulhamid writes: Not too long ago, Assad issued a “Finitiative,” that is, an initiative to end all initiatives, calling,…

Reform or else

13 years ago

Laurentina Cizza reports on last week's discussion at the Middle East Institute: Jordan's King Abdullah had three main objectives for…

What difference does it make?

13 years ago

Presidents Nikolic of Serbia and Jahjaga of Kosovo will meet in Brussels Wednesday.  This is a first since Kosovo's 2008…

This week’s peace picks

13 years ago

Three Afghanistan events in within two days, two Iran events on successive days.  Hard to believe the thinktanks are thinking…

Adagio

13 years ago

There is slow movement, adagio not andante, on two fronts, Syria and the Iran nuclear issue: Syrian opposition leader Moaz…

Straight shooting

13 years ago

The White House wants you to know the President can shoot straight:                …

Afghanistan’s economic transition

13 years ago

Laurentina Cizza reports: “Transformational development” is not something we generally associate with Afghanistan. Yet that was the term Alex Thier,…

Grasping at last straws

13 years ago

UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is said to have offered the UN Security Council on Thursday a "Plan C" for Syria…

Copts at risk

13 years ago

With the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power, the fate of Egypt’s non-Muslim minorities, especially the substantial Coptic minority,…