What better day to mourn our old republic than Memorial Day? Proclaimed by Civil War veterans in 1868 to commemorate the dead, today it evokes memories of past conflicts and those that are ongoing – all of which were (and are) the catalysts of this country's...

News media coverage of the Camp David summit between President Barack Obama and Gulf Cooperation Council members has focused largely on Obama’s success in getting the GCC States to go along with the negotiation of a nuclear agreement with Iran.  But the much more...

Kurdish Rebel Groups fought each other in northern Iraq. Overall, 133 were killed across the country.

The fight to win back Ramadi appears to have been launched without much help from the Iraqi army. Some army, police, and tribal forces have been deployed, but it appears that most of the fighters are Shi’ite militiamen. Husaybah has already been retaken. At least 171 were killed and 19 were wounded across the country.

At least 25 militants were killed in Iraq on Friday.

On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) “filibustered” for more than ten hours against the PATRIOT Act, the USA Freedom Act, and myriad government violations of the Fourth Amendment. He also daringly added some blistering critiques of the US prison state and its racial...

While the world's attention is focused on the Middle East, as usual, where ISIS – the creation of Washington's Saudi and Gulf allies – is the focus of the latest alleged "terrorist threat," a potentially more dangerous crisis is being ramped up by our professional...

The fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar, largest province in Iraq, after a rout of the Iraqi army by a few hundred ISIS fighters using bomb-laden trucks, represents a stunning setback for U.S. policy. When President Obama declared that we shall "degrade and...

Sunni leaders say they will continue to fight against the Islamic State militants, as they have no choice but to do it, but they will not fight for the Iraqi government. At least 69 were killed and 44 were wounded.

"What is the Palestinian strategy?" is a question that I have been asked all too often, including on 15 May, the day that millions of Palestinians around the world commemorated the 67th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians by...