The US is on a roll right now after abandoning the Kurds who have been an important ally for them in their fight against the Islamic State. This has caused Turkey to penetrate 19 miles into Syria causing thousands of civilians to flee. Turkish Air raids have killed hundreds of Kurds, in addition the Turks have committed war crimes against… Read more »
US. commanders leading the war on ISIS are trying to extricate troops from Syria in an orderly manner. This is the only orderly thing that seems to be happening in Syria. The Assad regime was rushing to control checkpoints at key locations while Turkey pressed its offensive on October 15, just nine days after the White House decided to wrap… Read more »
Key point: A series of missteps has undermined the Kingdom when it can least afford it. In 680 CE, less than fifty years after the death of Prophet Muhammad, an army of over thirty thousand men was deployed by thirty-three-year-old Umayyad Caliph Yazid to confront a tiny group of seventy-two people led by the prophet’s grandson, Hussein ibn Ali, who had… Read more »
Vladimir Putin is in a Middle Eastern wonderland this week. With perfect timing, his regional interests are all coming together. Precipitously betraying those who suffered thousands killed in action to defeat the Islamic State, President Trump has painted himself as unreliable and America as unworthy of alliance. Visiting the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on Monday, Putin will have offered those… Read more »
The phone conversation between Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan is having catastrophic results. The green light the U.S. president gave his Turkish counterpart on October 6 (even if Trump later clumsily tried to play down its significance) has produced tremors that have completely changed the situation in northern Syria, already affecting the strategic picture across the entire Middle East…. Read more »
Caleb Smith block 7 Just as Mr. Bailey predicted Saudi Arabia and Iran will not fall into a war instead they will talk it out and try to find common ground. The Saudis know that they have no leverage due to a much weaker military and less manpower. Because of their religious and political differences an amicable agreement is unlikely… Read more »
Saudi Arabia has given a green light to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to arrange a meeting with Iran as a first step towards de-escalating tensions in the region, Middle East Eye can reveal. Abbas al-Hasnawi, an official in the prime minister’s office, told MEE on Tuesday that Abdul Mahdi was mediating between the leaderships in Riyadh and Tehran and had… Read more »
US-Iranian tensions ratcheted up on Wednesday as Tehran warned that the Middle East was one blunder away from war, just hours after the Trump administration announced it had imposed a new round of sanctions against the Islamic republic. “Our region is on the edge of collapse, as a single blunder can fuel a big fire,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told the United… Read more »
Recent Iranian success at striking military and civilian infrastructure targets in the Persian Gulf region have led the American military to practice switching operational control of military operations from bases located within range of Iranian missiles to bases in the United States that are out of harm’s way. US Central Command, which controls US forces in most of the Middle… Read more »
he war that now looms largest is a war nobody apparently wants. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump railed against the United States’ entanglement in Middle Eastern wars, and since assuming office, he has not changed his tune. Iran has no interest in a wide-ranging conflict that it knows it could not win. Israel is satisfied with calibrated operations in Iraq,… Read more »