Israel, Hizbollah and Iran: Preventing Another War in Syria
What’s new? A new phase in Syria’s war augurs escalation with Israel. As the Assad regime gains the upper hand, Hizbollah probes the...
International Crisis Group 1
Feb 7, 2018
Yemen’s war is so out of control, allies are turning on one another
SANAA, Yemen — The three-year-old Yemen conflict has largely been cast as a war that pits an internationally recognized government...
Ali Al-Mujahed and Sudarsan Raghavan | The
Feb 3, 2018
The Iran Nuclear Deal at Two: A Status Report
What’s the issue? The 2015 Iran nuclear accord is as successful as it remains fragile. President Trump has warned he will scuttle it...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 16, 2018
Iran tries to censor coverage of protests by media based abroad
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Iranian government’s attempt to silence coverage of the current wave of protests by...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jan 5, 2018
How Iran’s President Rouhani Can Turn Crisis into Opportunity
Manifold reasons lie behind Iran’s ongoing protests, but the immediate trigger appears to be widespread disgruntlement over the country’s...
International Crisis Group 1
Jan 4, 2018
The Battle for Iran
Protest movements in the Middle East face enormous repressive hurdles and rarely have happy endings. Even when protesters “succeed” in...
Karim Sadjadpour | The Atlantic
Dec 31, 2017
Call for Paper Proposals: Special Issue of Genocide Studies International (12.2)
Genocide & The Kurds The Kurdish-inhabited lands of the Middle East - spanning territories in Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey as well as...
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Dec 28, 2017
UN body calls on Iran to shed light on fate of disappeared victims of 1988 massacre
The UN Working Group on Involuntarily and Enforced Disappearances has urged Iran to tell the truth about the fate of two victims of the...
Justice For Iran
Nov 13, 2017
Kurdish Fears of New Iranian-Backed Genocide ‘Must Be Taken Seriously,’ Expert Urges
By Ben Cohen Kurdish warnings that they face a potential genocide at the hands of the Iranian-backed forces that have swept through...
The Algemeiner
Oct 25, 2017
Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal, Despite Trump's Decertification
U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s 13 October decision not to certify Iran’s compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JC...
International Crisis Group 1
Oct 13, 2017
Afghan Children Recruited to Fight in Syria
Tombstones of Afghan child soldiers buried in Iran. © 2017 Private Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has recruited Afghan...
Human Rights Watch
Oct 1, 2017
Use the power of restraining Myanmar's leadership on the issue of Rohingya
Seorang pakar pembunuhan jenayah kaum, profesor Dr Gregory Stanton melihat sekatan jadi alat paling berkesan untuk menekan Aung San Suu...
Astro Awani
Sep 20, 2017
