Sisi’s policy towards Syria

Egyptian President-elect Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi dedicated most of his electoral campaign to addressing domestic issues and Egyptian citizens’ concerns. He did not say much about world affairs, Libya’s stability More...

The battle for power in Iraq

Iraq dominated the Arab political and security affairs for years until the Americans withdrew troops from the country and the Arab Spring erupted three years ago. This however does not mean that Iraq’s political More...

Why should U.S. arm the Syrian opposition?

In his book “Duty,” former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates narrates the controversy that preceded Israel’s shelling of a nuclear reactor after the 2007 discovery that the Syrian regime had More...

It’s Erdogan vs. Twitter

“I don’t care what the international community will say,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said to his opponents over his decision to block Twitter. No leader has done it since former Egyptian leader More...