Tonight is the Jewish festival of Passover, when we celebrate liberation. Last year, I called this season the Passover of…
While Eric Trager over at the Washington Institute continues to warn that Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood seeks a monopoly on power,…
Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani in a soft-spoken but hard-hitting performance today at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy…
David Kanin writes, in response to my last: Dan-- Thank you for sending me your twist on our discussion--it's your…
Yesterday's shoot out over the Kosovo asterisk surprised me. David Kanin conceded the merits of my argument that legally UN…
I debate David Kanin, my colleague here at SAIS, today on the question the asterisk* question. Here are the notes…
Milan Marinković writes again from Niš, about 100 miles from the Serbia/Macedonia border: For years Macedonia has seemed a forgotten…
With all the brouhaha this morning about Arab Gulf states agreeing to pay the Free Syria Army, the real news…
The big event is Carnegie's with Islamists on Thursday, but the week somehow starts on Wednesday with an event of…
The Syrian National Council (SNC) issued its Covenant this week, while the Friends of Syria today issued the Chairman's conclusions…