Middle East

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7116 Recent events in Iraq are liable to give new impetus to the ideas and the path that ISIS represents, which are shared by many terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East and beyond. Its...

Jordan has bolstered security measures amid the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant from neighboring Iraq and Syria. Officials said the military and intelligence community have been on alert for infiltration by...

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/after-success-in-iraq-and-syria-isil-will-find-it-tougher-to-crack-jordan Lost in the flurry of rambling threats to Iraq’s Shiite community during its surprise military blitz last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) issued an even bolder statement: a call...

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-sponsored-isil-founder-sheltered-him-from-u-s/ Iran long provided shelter and protection to the founder and former commander of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the predecessor to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), which rose to...

http://www.meforum.org/4734/fall-of-mosul Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum and a former official in the U.S. departments of State and Defense, briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on June 16, 2014. The implications...

http://www.meforum.org/4733/iraq-kurds-isis-isil The stunning collapse of the Iraqi army in Mosul, and the rapid advance of the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) through Tikrit and toward Baghdad has created a new...

At a time when the Arab Israeli war continues into its seventh decade, the most persistent issue of that war remains the "right of return", the demand of Arab refugees to take back villages...

http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2014/06/18/un-elevates-syria-business-as-usual/ Mr. President, what the Commission of Inquiry has just described is a living hell. Faced with continuing reports of Syria’s mass murder, torture, rape, and gassing of civilians by chemical weapons, how is the...

http://www.meforum.org/4728/second-front-opens-in-the-sunni-shia-war The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) organization swept into the city of Mosul in western Iraq last week. No one has any right to be surprised. ‬ ISIL has held a large...

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