Iraq

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/amos-yadlin-only-bombing-assads-forces-will-stop-the-slaughter-now-8106818.html President Bashar al-Assad continues to exploit the international community's propensity to turn a blind eye to the escalation in Syria, which now results in the murder of hundreds of innocent civilians each week. Thus...

http://www.danielpipes.org/11929/romney-obama-israel "President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus." That's what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party's nomination last week, repeating a slang phrase for...

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/action+plan+Syria/7129357/story.html Aleppo - Syria’s largest city, its commercial capital and an ancient heritage site - has been under relentless assault for close to a month. The siege has followed what has been called “Assad’s pattern of...

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geography-iranian-power-robert-d-kaplan Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from Robert D. Kaplan's new book, The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate , which will be...

http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/30/morsis_just_not_that_into_iran_0 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had high hopes for the visit to Tehran by new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. His trip on Thursday for the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit might have been brief -- his...

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/op-ed/action+plan+Syria/7129357/story.html Aleppo - Syria’s largest city, its commercial capital and an ancient heritage site - has been under relentless assault for close to a month. The siege has followed what has been called “Assad’s pattern of...

http://www.menewsline.com A former White House adviser ruled out the prospect that Washington would launch a strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. David Wurmser, a senior adviser to then-Vice President Richard Cheney, said he did not know...

http://www.meforum.org/3299/war-against-jews The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds. Since Israel is the world's only Jewish state, and since Zionism is...

http://nationalinterest.org/article/all-the-ayatollahs-men-7344?page=show MORE THAN thirty years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power-and two decades after his passing-the Islamic Republic remains an outlier in international relations. Other non-Western, revolutionary regimes eventually eschewed a rigidly ideological foreign...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/stay-out-of-syria/ Bashar Assad ’s wretched presence in the presidential palace of Damascus may, contrary to Western assumptions, do more good than harm. His murderous, terroristic and pro-Tehran regime is nonideological and relatively secular; it staves...