IS planning to step up attacks in Iraq's 'fragile regions'

Attacks have already increased sharply, mostly confined to the territory separating the Kurdistan Region from the rest of Iraq, following the US withdrawal in late September

Rustum Mahmud

Questioning Complicity

[caption id="attachment_55234492" align="alignnone" width="545"] Abdel Karim Qassem with delegates to an Afro–Asian solidarity meeting in Baghdad.[/caption] On 8 February 1963, the Ba’ath Party of…

Bryan R. Gibson

Nasser’s Three Circles

[caption id="attachment_55234401" align="alignnone" width="500"] Gamal Abdel Nasser[/caption]Following the overthrow of the corrupt Egyptian monarchy in 1952, a power struggle emerged between the…

Bryan R. Gibson

The Media War in Syria

[caption id="attachment_55234371" align="alignnone" width="620"] (MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption]Exactly a year after the breakout of the Syrian uprising, Al-Arabiya TV did something…

Malik al-Abdeh

Egypt's "King of Thugs" Faces Trial

[caption id="attachment_55234360" align="alignnone" width="620"] Sabri Nakhnoukh was ordered detained for prosecution after ten hours of police interrogation in Alexandria.[/caption] When the police…

Alastair Beach

A Failing Drug War

[caption id="attachment_55234346" align="alignnone" width="620"] Members of Mexico's Caravan for Peace call for an end to the Drug War at Freedom Plaza in Washington, 2011[/caption] While in…

Stephen Glain

Turkey's Crooked Timber

[caption id="attachment_55234332" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkish soldiers arrive to the court building in Silivri on September 21, 2012 (Reuters)[/caption]When a Turkish court last Friday…

Nicholas Birch

Appetite for Democracy

[caption id="attachment_55234256" align="alignnone" width="620"] Edward McMillan-Scott in Cairo [/caption]Historical perspective is a funny thing. In common with other countries, the British…

Alastair Beach

The Threat of Sequestration

[caption id="attachment_55234247" align="alignnone" width="600"] President Obama and Speaker John Boehner's failure to reach a spending and revenue agreement would see automatic cuts to defense…

Stephen Glain

The Fate of Avveroes

[caption id="attachment_55234130" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egypt secularists took to the streets of Cairo last year[/caption]On the evening of September 13, Alber Saber was sitting inside the…

Alastair Beach