The Gulf Arab states are now desperate to get the Iran deal back, fearing that Iran’s overtures are left unchecked and the crisis will only get worse.
The refugee flows are nothing new. And the games that poorer, weaker countries play by using them, have also been around for a while.
The Middle East powder keg will affect us all when that final spark ignites it, Brian Cloughley writes.
With Kafr Qasem, as well as with other massacres, Israel needs to set the record straight – it is a perpetrator, with intent, and with an entire political structure that has supported its ethnic cleansing for decades.
The U.S. will be seen as endorsing the crime, resulting in yet another foreign policy disaster in the Middle East, Philip Giraldi writes.
Biden is prepared to cut Assad some slack where there are obvious benefits to U.S. interests in the region, Martin Jay writes.
The U.S. should do everything it can to ensure that the Middle East is a nuclear weapons-free zone, Brian Cloughley writes.
What happened in Afghanistan was not a mere change of government. A puppet state responsible for spreading subversion in the region was overthrown.
