At least 37 were killed and 18 were wounded in light violence across Iraq. Yazidis continue searching for missing members.

The United States and Turkey have reached an agreement, long sought by the Turks, to establish a safe zone in Syria to insulate Turkey from the multi-sided civil war in Syria and to provide a sanctuary to which many of the two million Syrian refugees now in Turkey can...

Mass Executions Terrorize Mosul where women, young men and even taxi drivers were targets for slaughter.

A six-month investigation into alleged civilian and ‘friendly fire’ deaths from Coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria has identified more than 120 incidents of concern to June 30th according to an Airwars report published today – three times more problem events than...

"People compare my style with that of J.F.K., but in terms of substance, I feel much closer to Ataturk or Ben-Gurion or General de Gaulle – people who had to build nation states." ~ Mikheil Saakashvili If you had to use one word to sum up newly minted Odessa...

The Intercept has an article on the "U.S. Institute of Peace," a government agency founded in 1984 supposedly dedicated to promoting "nonviolent resolution of conflicts": author Lee Fang is shocked – shocked! – that USIP chairman Stephen J. Hadley, a former national...

At least 132 were killed and 25 were killed in the violence: A Yazidi woman who escaped her militant captor told the media that her three children were poisoned after being taken to Syria. In Baghdad, a bomb killed three people and wounded 11 more. Mortars killed...

At least 4,693 were killed and 2,210 were wounded across Iraq during July. These should be considered lowball estimates. At least 96 were killed and 45 were wounded in fresh violence.

Let’s mix some metaphors in the Middle East, all of them involving elephants. In the crisis zone that encompasses Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, the Kurds are the elephant in the room. They are the “problem” that no one really wants to talk about. Because...