Iranian TV Claims Starbucks Blocks Its Website

A cup of coffee at Starbucks won’t buy access to Iran’s official Press TV website, the media outlet claims, based on a blogger. The website, a propaganda mouthpiece for the ...

Kerry to Iraq: Stop Allowing Flights From Iran to Syria

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed Iraq to stop allowing Iranian flights apparently carrying military equipment through its airspace headed to Syria, on a surprise visit to Baghdad on ...

Reflections on the Invasion of Iraq

by Daniel Pipes March 18, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner How does one understand the U.S.-led expeditionary force that attacked Iraq exactly a decade ago, on March ...

Iraq: Take a Day to Remember

Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. There will be much heated debate and discussion today about how the war began, why it began, ...

Iran-Syria Gas Pipe to Run Through Iraq

Iraq has approved plans to run a natural gas pipeline through its territory from Iran to Syria. The move that may prove to be a game-changer in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ...

Was George Bush Correct After all on Iraq’s WMD’s?

    Bush used CIA and Russian intelligence to come to the conclusion Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction also called WMD.  During the invasion in 2003 a  500 ton cache of refined yellow ...

Anarchy Surrounds Israel

by Daniel Pipes July 18, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Of Israel’s neighbors, Lebanon always stood out by virtue of its weak central government, but for the ...

Defecting Syrian Diplomat Tells All

Defecting Syrian Diplomat Tells All July 17, 2012 16:35 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News ...

The Real Refugees

Most of the world is ignoring the real catastrophe of the past recent era: the brutal expulsion of some 867,000 Jews from Arab countries, and the seizure, by the Arab ...

Fighting Flares Between Turkey and Kurdish Separatists

The conflict between Turkey and Kurdish nationalists who are determined to carve a Kurdish state out of eastern Turkey is heating up. Kurdish insurgents attacked Turkish military outposts near the ...