Being drawn into the Syrian civil war forced Hezbollah to pay both a political price and a price to its image in the Arab-Muslim world… Continue reading
Hezbollah supports the Syrian regime as the civil war drags on… Continue reading
For Iran and Hezbollah, the preservation of Bashar Assad’s regime is of supreme strategic importance… Continue reading
How the Assad regime has managed to survive the revolution, for the time being and in contrast to other recent upheavals in the Middle East… Continue reading
The battle over the Syrian town Ras al-Ain on the border to Turkey damaged Turkish relations with the Kurds in Syria, and with parts of Syrian opposition… Continue reading
The visit of Baron Viktor Frankenstein could be considered a big success… Continue reading
The Obama visit to Israel has become an unlimited love fest with expressions of mutual admiration and total agreement… Continue reading
Islamists will intimidate anyone who let them intimidate… Continue reading
Should Iran give more importance to Syria than to the Khuzestan region… Continue reading
My main goal of forty years of Middle East analysis has been trying to explain the Middle East as it actually exists, how its politics work, and how its history can be understood… Continue reading
Israel forces carried out a strike overnight on a convoy coming from Syria in the Lebanon-Syria border area… Continue reading
What can the United States can do to counteract the glaring Islamization of rebel ranks… Continue reading
Even if the Turkish military wins every battle against the PKK, an even more dangerous war is being lost… Continue reading
The civil war in Syria is moving into the end-game… Continue reading
Revised and updated version of an interview Barry Rubin gave recently… Continue reading
Of all the Christian communities in Syria, the Assyrians, that is, those Christians who identify as such by virtue of belonging to the Assyrian Church of the East, arguably have the most complex relationship with the Assad regime… Continue reading
The Turkish presumption to be a “model” for the Middle East will be undermined if the United States were to withdraw from the affairs of the region… Continue reading
Is the resurgent of Al-Qaida in Iraq a result from the growing civil war in Syria… Continue reading
Turkey’s governing Justice and Development Party has been well served by the confrontational style of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan… Continue reading
The Syrian crisis is a good test of the strength of the Russia-Turkish detente… Continue reading
We are not just talking here about theological differences but a battle between individual leaders, organizations, and states for power and primacy… Continue reading
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, proposed that the crisis in Syria be addressed through diplomatic methods and called for the establishment of an international mechanism for dialogue… Continue reading
The Turkish government appears to hope to deter the continued Syrian – and Iranian – deployment of the Kurdish card against Turkey… Continue reading
Focus is everything — knowing what the central problem is, and dealing with it… Continue reading
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