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Who is David Lammy, Labour's shadow foreign secretary?
Evening Standard via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoDavid Lammy has come a long way since his early days in Tottenham. The shadow foreign secretary has...
The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East
Foreign Policy Magazine· 5 days agoWhen we arrived at the gates of Iraq’s Bardarash refugee camp in December 2019, the emotional pain of the scene leveled me: Cold, wind-swept rain fell as...
Syria: Deals To Be Made
Strategy Page· 6 days agoMay 18, 2022: Since 2018 the Assad government has regained control over about 80 percent of 2011 Syria. The exceptions are most of Idlib province in the northwest and the Kurdish controlled ...
Armed Syrian Kurdish women stand guard over precious wheatfields
AFP via Yahoo News· 2 days agoHolding a weapon in one hand and fixing her scarf with the other, Yasmine Youssef patrols one of...
Syria: Changing The Rules
Strategy Page· 2 days agoApril 18, 2018: The Syrian government considers the loss of their chemical weapons facilities a minor setback. Russia or Iran will pay to have the facilities replaced. Meanwhile the April 7 ...
Israel: Use It And Lose It
Strategy Page· 6 hours agoJune 5, 2018: Germany openly called for Iran to withdraw its forces from Syria. This rare criticism of Iran was caused by Israel pointing out that the presence of Iranian forces in Syria is ...
Syria: Disintegration
Strategy Page· 4 days agoJune 13, 2023: There continues to be less fighting in Syria despite the continued presence of numerous mutually antagonistic groups in many parts of the country. Most of the dead continue to ...
Iraq: Rage Against The Machines
Strategy Page· 23 hours agoNovember 23, 2021: The November 7 attack on the prime minister and its aftermath did not work out to Iran’s advantage. The attack caused some material damage and wounded a few security personnel ...
Israel: Unnatural Acts
Strategy Page· 2 days agoMarch 2, 2021: Recent Israeli airstrikes near Damascus (the Syrian capital) were apparently retaliation for the attack on an Israeli-owned ship in the Persian Gulf two days earlier. In the aftermath ...
Counter-Terrorism: Industrial Decapitation In Action
Strategy Page· 2 days agoJanuary 22, 2018: To those familiar with Arab military history the discovery of so many ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) weapon and ammunition manufacturing operations in Mosul and ...