Middle East
President Donald Trump enforced Barack Obama’s porous red line on chemical weapons and in so doing has made it possible, for better or worse, for the US to participate in trying to end the war in Syria–through [...]
Middle East
Everyone has decided that President Trump has altered US policy toward Egypt by meeting with and praising military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in a White House meeting. Trump said Sisi is “doing [...]
Middle East
Iraqi forces, helped by US military advisors, are inching their way toward the re-conquest of Mosul, the country’s second largest city, from the Islamic State and its allies. The Baghdad government and [...]
Americas
(From The Washington Post) President Trump dropped a sectarian bombshell on Friday into his quick and confused order to curb refugee and immigration flows. He told the Christian Broadcasting Network that [...]
Middle East
Rome–The startling destruction of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city and one of its most storied, is shocking and sad to see. The human suffering would be enough to mourn. But there’s also a tragic [...]
Middle East
Washington: Here is a talk on Christian persecution I gave at New America in Washington DC on October 21:
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Rome–Don’t be fooled. The current air blitz by Russian jets, Syrian government troops and Iranian-organized ground forces would have happened without the bogus ceasefire that officially ended [...]
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London–Wow, Obama and Putin. That was some ceasefire in Syria you guys signed-off on. Forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels kept fighting each other. Assad also kept blocking aid [...]
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Rome—Maybe after five years of awful turmoil, tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees and vast destruction of cities, giving into Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad is not the worst option [...]
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Rome— The beheading of a child and use of poison gas in Syria ought to awaken Obama and Putin to the dangers of sticking with their chosen allies. But it won’t happen. The other day I saw the [...]