The US and Iran mull next moves amid shaky truce

Washington weighs the desire to avoid a protracted war with offsetting the appearance of defeat, as Tehran debates whether to consolidate gains before conditions shift or press perceived advantages

Alex Vatanka

Fuad Hussein: The Veteran Iraqi Politician

It is known that in post-2003 Iraq, everything is shared on the basis of ethnic and sectarian quotas, particularly between the three main components,i.e.Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. And if the Arabs of…

Majalla

Ukraine and Democratic Failure

In one of the most painful expressions of the reality faced by many countries that were among the waves of democratization sustained by the post-Soviet countries in the 1990s, the adviser in the…

Ahmed Taher