Why Iran-backed militias did well in Iraq's elections

Their success in Iraq's recent elections has less to do with genuine public support and more to do with vote buying through the massive wealth they've accrued through power

Elizabeth Tsurkov

US Policy Towards Lebanon

Analysis of US Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield’s trip to Lebanon began before his visit had ended. Usually the Assistant Secretary of States visits are centred on issues related to…

Elie Fawaz

“Kurdistan’s Hiroshima”

It has been 31 years since that bloody Friday which oversaw the diabolical massacre of Kurds living Halabja, one of the cities of Iraqi Kurdistan. Also known as “Kurdistan’s Hiroshima”, the…

Fayrouz Ramadan Zada

A New Americanism

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Jill Lepore