The political eruption engulfing the Middle East since late 2010, known [though erroneously] as the Arab Spring spared, until recently, a country whose history, stretching for centuries, has been characterized by frequent bloodshed, large scale violence, in fact, terrible civil wars. This is Lebanon.
Read MoreAfter the American invasion of 2003 and the downfall of the Sunni Saddam Hussein regime, and as the country slowly delved into its sectarian civil war, Christopher Catherwood, an adviser to then British PM Tony Blair published his; Churchill’s Folly; How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq.
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The Autonomous Administration of north and east Syria, or ROJAVA, consists formally, though not necessarily practically [at least before the Turkish invasion] of the sub-districts of Afrin, Jazeera, Euphrates, Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij, and Deir A Zor. Let us pay special attention to, at least, four of these regions.
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This is the first of two articles by Dr. Josef Olmert that discusses the current crisis in Syria after the U.S withdrew its troops from northeastern Syria.
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THE REGIONAL PLAYGROUND-TURKEY’S ROLE
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