EINAT WILF
The Middle East as we’ve known it for the past one hundred years is unraveling right before our eyes. In its place, new and the old loyalties are raging a battle to shape the new Middle East.
PKK threatens to resume an all out war against Turkey
ABDULLA HAWEZ
After Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan finally revealed the long-awaited package of democratic reforms aimed at advancing peace talks with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), PKK leaders at their base in the Qandil Mountains said they consider the package inadequate.
At least 38 killed in Baghdad bomb attacks
DIMPOOL NEWS
Bombs exploded across Baghdad on Monday, killing 38 people, police said, as suspected militants pursued a campaign to provoke sectarian conflict.
Let refugees remain in their own culture zones
DANIEL PIPES
The lull in the chemical weapon crisis offers a chance to divert attention to the huge flow of refugees leaving Syria and rethink some misguided assumptions about their future.
UN officials say chemical weapons inspectors begin destroying Syrian stockpile
DIMPOOL NEWS
International inspectors began the enormous task Sunday of destroying Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons, United Nations officials said, racing to meet a tight deadline to eliminate President Assad’s chemical weapons program.
Bashar al Assad: Turkey will pay a price for Syrian involvement
DIMPOOL NEWS
The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, says Turkey has the blood of Syrians on its hands after supplying arms to anti-government rebels.
Why the ‘Netanyahu Doctrine’ makes sense
EINAT WILF
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged from his meeting Monday with President Barack Obama, he may have recognized in the president a fellow proponent of the Netanyahu Doctrine: to avoid the use of force, be ready to use it.