U.S. President Barack Obama's comments to Congress the other day were very informative about his desire to be authorized in advance to instantly strike the Islamic State and its affiliates wherever...
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has earnestly promoted himself as a useful ally in the fight against the Islamic State group in his country. Could he really be an imperfect, yet useful, ad-hoc ally...
The notorious Islamic State group has apparently beheaded yet another journalist. The Japanese journalist Kenji Goto whom the group had taken hostage, and demanded $200 million from the Japanese...
Martin Chulov of The Guardian newspaper got quite the scoop the other day. He got to interview a top-ranking member of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Ahmed. Ahmed...
The recent news story about archaeologists excavating the ancient site of Karkemish, which is situated right on Turkey's frontier with Syria, a mere 20-metres away from Islamic State-held territory...
There are moments to remember on social media. And this was one of them. The passion of Ben Affleck resonating with millions of Muslims and liberals the world over. The calm, calculated "logic" of...
Unfortunately, the Arab world these days is only in the news in the shadow of ISIS and their cut-throat shenanigans. The images from the region are those of an Arab spring turned on its head; of...