The “Green Side” Of Osama Bin Laden
"Osama Bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight "catastrophic" climate change ...
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Is Egypt Planning For A Palestinian Resettlment In Sinai?
"In the Sinai the largest military operation since the war of October 1973 against Israel is ongoing, however, so far ...
Saddam Hussein Did Not Have to Die
Photo credit/WikiImages Ex-Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki in a interview describes the days' priors to the execution as characterized by “indecision” ...
The Fall of Mosul: How ISIS Managed to Take the City
"When the jihadists advanced towards Mosul on 6th June 2014 their aim was just to take a neighborhood for a ...
Secret British Documents revealed the First Days into Hosni Mubarak’s Presidency
The British Foreign Office considered Hosni Mubarak "straight" and "reluctant" during the difficult days after Sadat's assasination. (By Nino Orto)A ...
Will The Golan Heights Became the Next War-Front Between Israel and Iran?
“We are looking to Syria with concern because of the evolution of the conflict and the growing Iranian presence in ...
Uzi Rabi: “Israel Will Never Tolerate An Iran-Hezbollah Alliance on Its Border”
"Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Professor Uzi Rabi, in ...
Terror Attack in Spain: What we know so far
"As remarked by F. Reinares, various elements (e.g. the complexity of the plot, as well as trips abroad by members ...
The Secret Book of Islamic State
"What is happening today could be the systematic application of what is written in the 2006 book "Management of Savagery" ...
Why we should not celebrate Mosul’s “liberation”.
"There are no signs that attitudes within Baghdad towards the Sunnis are changing". (By Nino Orto) With Iraq’s second largest ...
When friends become enemies: Will Qatar become Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?
"What is happening today with Qatar is a parabola already seen. Al-Thani is not Saddam Hussein and Qatar is not ...
Interview with Mrs Lejla Čamdžić Researcher at OCCRP
"OCCRP’s goal is to help the people of the world understand how organized crime and corruption resides in their countries ...
Saddam Hussein is still alive in Mosul
"If the situation in Mosul doesn't change there will be another group with a different name and leaderships who may ...
The Children of the Caliphate
“The stories coming from Iraq show an organised and structured military training which aims to cultivate an army of loyal ...
Iraq’s parliament passes law legalising Shia militias: the end of Iraq?
"They now number over 100,000 men and fight with heavy weaponry, including tanks, artillery and rocket launchers" (By Osservatorio Mashrek) ...
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Are conflicts in Syria, Iraq becoming the experimental enviroment of next generation war?
“It is evident by these cases that terrorists and insurgents are increasingly turning to teleoperated weaponry to support and augment ...
Secret plot to kill Saudi Ambassador to Iraq: Covert Iranian war or Saudi Arabia propaganda?
"Ahemd Jamal, spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, said such claims were fabricated only meant to damage the relations between ...
The Arabian Winter: ISIS, al-Qa’ida and the Middle Eastern Wars
"Islamic militants use social media because we use social media; they seek resources…money…hydrocarbons…weapons…in the way that many actors do across ...
“The Islamic State is a stable entity”: interview with Loretta Napoleoni
"Islamic State has been very skillful in attracting the young Muslims generations. I think that this is related as well ...