A collection of 10 posts
The media’s obsessive focus on the Israel–Palestine conflict obscures the broader picture of the ubiquity of jihadism in the Middle East, and the crucial role it plays in stoking and perpetuating turmoil and strife.
Syria’s new leader will have to balance his Islamist beliefs with the more pressing tasks of state-building and economic development.
The atrocities committed by the Assad regime were no secret—but they were met with Western inaction.
The Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 set a series of events in motion that have shifted the balance of power in the region in a way the terrorists themselves never intended.
Iran and Russia have suffered serious setbacks over the past year, but grave dangers remain.
Syria’s crisis demonstrates the importance of power.
The future is unwritten, and a future of space cooperation and peaceful settlement remains possible.
The conditions that first produced ISIS have been left to fester as part of a wider malign neglect toward the Muslim Middle East in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
Dr David Adesnik, Director of Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, talks to Jonathan Kay about ISIS, Syria and the Kurds.
If one genuinely cares about the civilians who are suffering, they would want to stop the war at any cost, rather than fan the flames further.