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Libya’s Fires
by Wayne White The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) ended on January 2 a fire that raged for days among tanks in Libya’s largest oil export terminal of Es-Sider, but the militia violence fed by...
View ArticleGraham Fuller’s Five Middle East Predictions for 2015
Only a fool offers longer term predictions about the Middle East. I offer the following longer terms predictions about the Middle East for 2015. ISIS will decline in power and influence. I have stated...
View ArticleUS Fight Against Islamic State: Long Haul Ahead
via Lobelog by Wayne White As 2014 draws to a close, there is no shortage of alternative suggestions about how to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS or IS). Most of them involve US escalation, driven by...
View ArticleErdogan vs. Gulen
via Lobelog by Umar Farooq For more than thirteen years, Turkey has made a slow but steady transition towards a free and democratic society, despite the occasional pang of apprehension among some about...
View ArticleWhy Does ISIS Hate Shi’a?
by Graham E. Fuller ISIS has particularly targeted Shi’a as a key part of their brutal onslaught against any practice of Islam that does not conform to their narrow ahistorical interpretation view of...
View ArticleIt’s Egypt That Needs Higher Oil Prices
by Thomas W. Lippman The country that could ultimately suffer the most damage from a sustained depression in the world price of oil could be one that is not a major producer: Egypt. Unable to sustain...
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The IAEA Faces a Major Credibility Test
by Robert Kelley On December 11, the spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that his agency was, as Gareth Porter asserted on this website earlier this month, not...
View ArticleWhat Is Genuine Leadership in the Middle East?
by Graham E. Fuller A supreme challenge to US policies in the Middle East—especially in the Arab world—has been dealing with the no-win dilemma of leadership in the Arab world. As we look out across...
View ArticleThe Senate Report on CIA Torture: “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly”
by Robert E. Hunter Finally, someone in the US government has followed through on President Barack Obama’s judgment that CIA-conducted and “-outsourced” torture—let’s call it by its common name—is “not...
View ArticleMaking Sense of The Turkey-ISIS Mess
by Graham E. Fuller Among the many confusing factors swirling around the whole ISIS phenomenon is the role, or roles, of Turkey in the situation. It might be helpful to tick off some of the major...
View ArticleISIS Eclipses Iran as Threat Among US Public
by Jim Lobe Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, has just released a major new poll of US public opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian...
View ArticleIraqi Kurds Seek Greater Balance Between Ankara and Baghdad
by Mohammed A. Salih Erbil—After a period of frostiness, Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Turkey seem intent on mending the ties, as each of the parties show signs of needing the other....
View ArticleThe US Fight Against Islamic State: Avoiding “Mission Creep”
by Wayne White Hyping the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) threat risks generating flawed policies. The White House probably is a source of frustration, as its critics claim, but others seem too eager to...
View ArticleHow Does Israel Assess the Threat Posed by ISIS?
via Lobelog by Derek Davison A former senior analyst for Mossad, Yossi Alpher, told an audience in Washington Thursday that Israel sees the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) as an “urgent” national security...
View ArticleMubarak Acquitted as Egypt’s Counterrevolution Thrives
via Lobelog by Emile Nakhleh The acquittal of former Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak is not a legal or political surprise. Yet it carries serious ramifications for Arab autocrats who are...
View ArticleIran Talks Miss Deal Deadline: What’s Next?
via Lobelog by Ariane Tabatabai With the November 24 deadline for a comprehensive deal between world powers and Iran on the country’s nuclear program now behind us, the negotiating teams have returned...
View ArticleTales from the Vienna Woods
via Lobelog by Robert E. Hunter It’s too early to tell all there is to be told about the negotiations in Vienna between the so-called P5+1 and Iran on the latter’s nuclear program. The “telling” by...
View ArticleBahrain’s Sham Election Ignores Calls for Reform
via Lobelog by Emile Nakhleh Bahrain’s national election planned for this Saturday portends no change in the al-Khalifa regime’s anti-Shi’a stance and is yet another futile exercise in sham democracy....
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Tracking Libya’s Progressive Collapse
via Lobelog by Wayne White Libya’s chaos and violence may seem like a continuum of painful replays. However, as the situation festers, the risk of extremist elements gaining a more dangerous foothold...
View ArticleTop Foreign Policy Experts Endorse Iran Nuclear Deal
by Derek Davison As Iran and six world powers scramble to reach a deal over Iran’s nuclear program by the deadline of Nov. 24 in Vienna, Washington is seeing a flurry of last-minute events focused on...
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