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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki speaks on US-Iraqi relations at the United States Institute of Peace on October 31, 2013 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN)

Opinion: Maliki and ISIS are both part of the problem

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jun 16, 2014 | Opinion

Controversy over the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Al-Nusra Front first erupted in 2012. Some denied that they were present in Syria, while many others thought the two groups had nothing to do with Al-Qaeda, and that they were really part of Syrian...

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A Free Syrian army fighter takes cover as he shoots near Al Neirab airport in Aleppo February 17, 2013. REUTERS/Hamid Khatib

Who Quashed the Coup in Syria?

by Ghassan Al Imam | Feb 13, 2013 | Opinion

Who said wars of civilisations, cultures, and creeds are impossible? Europe fought a religious war which lasted a hundred years and ended with a cultural fusion between Catholics and Protestants. With its American extension, this melding of civilisations soon produced...

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A June 23, 2011 photo shows Paula Broadwell (2nd L) watching as General David Petraeus (R) and his wife Holly Petraeus (3rd L) arrive for a Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on Petraeus’ nomination to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN)

Airing One’s Dirty Laundry in Public

by Samir Atallah | Jan 25, 2013 | Opinion

I was in New York several months ago where I found America in the grip of two storms: Hurricane Sandy that ravaged the country’s east coast and the media storm whirling around the relationship between CIA Director David Petraeus and his biographer Paula...