The final rebel-held province brings into focus all the pressures on Turkey in the Syrian Civil War. “Protection comes firstly from God, and after that it’s up to the Turks,” Mohammad al-Youssef, a 33-year-old resident of the village of...
The new Russian terror is a lesson in the value of freedom. It is also a lesson in the current weakness of the West. No one believes that Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov, who have been identified by the British police as suspects in the...
The Tehran summit may eventually bring about an end to the fighting as we’ve known it, but not the peace desired by the people of Syria. Last week’s gathering in Tehran of the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey produced predictable happy...
Washington and Islamabad see the threat of terrorism, the role of Afghanistan and the larger world in fundamentally different ways. For an administration accustomed to public backlash, the Pentagon’s recent decision to withhold $300 million set...
Islam is not at war with Britain, just as the latter is not at war with Muslims, even if extremists on both sides want that to be the case. The Arabic phrase Bismillah, ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim translates as “in the name of Allah the beneficent the...
