ANKARA — With attacks by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) multiplying and spreading to a larger number of Turkish provinces, Ankara is under increasing pressure by nationalistic parties to take tougher measures against Kurdish activism, including a full-blown land...
Iraq: 711 Killed During Ramadan
There Is Unity in Oppression; There Must Be Unity in Response
I am here today because I cannot be there with you today. But thank you for coming. Thank you for your resolve and your generosity of spirit. On Wednesday night, after a threat was sent to this embassy and the police descended on this building, you came out in the...
Bibi’s Game: Nuclear Blackmail?
The Israelis are going all out to lure, threaten, and scare the US into attacking Iran: the world hasn’t seen such a frenzy of staged hysterics since my three-year-old niece threatened to hold her breath until her parents agreed to buy her all six Barbie Fashionistas....
Prominent Sunni Sheikh Wounded in Attack That Killed Five
Gunmen and Bombers Kill 19 Across Iraq
How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan – or America
‘The Most Dangerous Man in the World’?
U.S. newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in the history of the republic, if not of the world. Nikita Khrushchev's decision to secretly install nuclear-armed...