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A Qadr H long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile is fired by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, during a maneuver, in an undisclosed location in Iran, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (AP)

How Trump Can Confront Iran without Blowing up the Nuclear Deal

by Josh Rogin | Aug 9, 2017 | Opinion

President Trump seems determined to not certify that Iran is complying with the nuclear deal when that question comes before him this fall. But that would be only the beginning of the story. He could follow such a determination with actions that risk blowing up the...

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A wounded Syrian boy cries at a make-shift hospital morgue in Douma, following a regime air strike in 2015. (AFP)

Carla, Everyone in Syria is Evil!

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 9, 2017 | Opinion

Ms. Carla Del Ponte was the head of the UN investigation looking into war crimes in Syria. She began her mission at the beginning of the war and has finally given up and declared her failure. Despite over half a million innocent victims, she was not able to summon one...

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Russians miss out on these delights. Photographer: Jean Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images

US Sanctions Are Another Gift to Putin

by Leonid Bershidsky | Aug 7, 2017 | Opinion

Russian President Vladimir Putin tends to respond to Western sanctions in ways its authors probably didn’t anticipate: by going after those Russians who could most help their own country and who want to build ties with the West. His order last week to US...

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A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

Coexistence or ISIS

by Ghassan Charbel | Aug 7, 2017 | Opinion

The ISIS terrorist organization was established after the collapse of a series of coexistence trials. It changed maps and tore borders apart, and maps are like buildings, they always need maintenance. Negligence speeds up their demise with walls cracking and doors...

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Kuwait, Saudi Arabia Between Two Crises

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 6, 2017 | Opinion

Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, may he rest in peace, could have tried to do like Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, Qatar’s crown prince back then and its real ruler. Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait back then, during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Doha,...

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People watch a television news showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on April 5, 2017. (AFP)

Trump is Right about North Korea

by David Ignatius | Aug 5, 2017 | Opinion

As President Trump nears the threshold of a military crisis with North Korea, he needs to sustain this early intuition — and not be driven into actions that may look tough but would leave every player worse off. The template hasn’t really changed from the Korean War...