In Syria, The Losing Hand for al-Assad and Iran
London—The recent fall of the provincial capital Idlib and environs to rebels, along with setbacks to government forces elsewhere in Syria, raise the question of whether Bashar al-Assad and, by [...]
Call It the War of the Shiite Crescent
London, March 26, 2015—(Updated with link from al-Ahram on Iran’s shadow presence at Arab League summit) In 2004, King Hussein of Jordan warned of the emergence of a “Shiite Crescent” [...]
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