With its new European Defense Fund, the EU is reaching an unprecedented milestone: funding the defense industry. Until now, European defense has been advancing at a snail’s pace, but the latest moves may launch it a quantum leap forward. However,...
Kurdish women have joined the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq. The aim: to destroy the so-called caliphate. Hundreds of Kurdish female fighters have sacrificed their lives at home in Iran to join the fight against the Islamic State (IS or...
Even as Iraq’s prime minister struts around Mosul, fresh troubles lie ahead unless reform, reconciliation and reconstruction succeed. This week, the Trump family saga rolled on. After Ivanka, a true Americana princess, sat briefly on daddy’s...
Will Donald Trump be the fourth consecutive US president to fail in preventing North Korea from expanding its nuclear capability? When North Korea launched its latest missile on July 4, it was yet another auspiciously timed message for the world...
Although the Saleh and Houthi alliance has withstood the Yemen conflict, the cracks in their alliance are as large as ever. During 2014, Yemen observers suspected former President Ali Abdullah Saleh of facilitating, if not orchestrating, the Houthi...
