The balance of forces inside Syria and across the region makes current United States strategy perilous.
The whole structure is designed to look like any other building both outside and inside.The goal was to give the client a sense of security without giving them the feeling that they were in a bunker.
Someday, someway, somehow, somebody will do something stupid similar to Mubarak and his "crown" inheritance project - (maybe El Sisi running for president?) - and this could result in a return of the initial uproar.
There is little systematic evidence to suggest that “ruthlessness” is, in and of itself, a critical variable.
In an excerpt from Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield Jeremy Scahill traces how the US, who once focused its attentions on "rogue states," became a rogue superpower itself, engaged in endless war.
Egyptians must brace themselves for more violence: the proponents of severely curtailed liberties in the name of national security and the advocates of illegal retribution are back with a vengeance.
From the outset Fawaz Ahmed insisted that as a Muslim he (unlike Usman Khawaja) would not wear the team shirt with the sponsor’s logo, that of Victoria Bitter.
The Democracy Package will only have a short term effect on Turkish democracy and will be incapable of tackling the main problems in our society.
American drones are shattering Pakistani lives. But behind moral obscenity is political reality, says Maruf Khwaja.
Russia is devoting considerable effort to trying to ensure that the Sochi Winter Olympics are safe and secure. Mark Galeotti wonders whether the real concern is not an attack on the Games but the consolidation of the security state.
