Killing the Truth: The War on Reporters
How the Syrian conflict has redifined war reporting Is it the lives of those who capture the truth in war time or the truth itself that matters most? Cameras were...
Europe’s Leaders are Europe’s Greatest Weakness
Europe’s leaders are Europe’s greatest weakness. Stockholm is a beautiful city, both solid and enticing in equal measure as it cavorts between land, sea, and sky. And yet behind the...
Brussels attacks: why do family members commit terrorism together?
It appears to be increasingly common that terrorist attacks not of the lone-wolf variety involve members of the same family. Some of them, like the San Bernardino attack last December,...
Paris Bombing (13 November 2015) and Western “Terrorism” Policy
The bombing that took place in Paris with many casualties was a human tragedy and a political disaster for Western anti-terrorism policy. A day before ISIS suicide bombers in Paris,...
Iran vs the ISIS or Struggle for Influence in the Middle East
Tactics and methods of the terrorist group ISIL “Islamic State of Iraq and Levant” which are based on radical current “Takfirism” do not only pose threat for the Middle East...
The Iranian Role in Iraq is Underreported
News reports tell us that negotiations have been delayed between the U.S. and Iran on nuclear weapons. But the reports divert our attention on Al Qaeda/ISIS while supporting the Shia’s...
Methodological differences of the PKK, KCK and HDP
Since the PKK was established an illegal, armed organization, it has always been revolutionary in the way it obtained its results regardless of a transformation from separate state to democratic...
The Big Picture in Syria is Bigger Than Any One Group
The Middle East has been persevering not because the leaders of Middle Eastern countries are just and legitimate, but because the people who live there still have hope for the...
Ebola and ISIS: Threats Derive from Fear
The threats posed by Ebola and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) might be perceived as enemies of humanity. One of them is a disease and the other...
Turkey stuck at a crossroads as Islamic State terrorises Kobanê
Kobanê, a small Kurdish town on the Syrian-Turkish border, has now become the ultimate test of Turkey’s ambivalence on how to engage the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the rapidly...