Significant Developments Syria. UN investigators reported today that the Assad regime has been conducting extensive and systemic abductions that constitute a war crime and “widespread campaign of te…

Significant Middle East Developments Egypt. Pope Shenouda III, the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt for over forty years, died last Saturday. Thousands of mourners attended his Cairo fune…

Significant Middle East Developments Syria. The United Nations Security Council established the U.N. Supervision Mission in Syria on Saturday, increasing the number of ceasefire monitors there fro…

I didn’t expect Iraq to use military force against the Kurds. And I believed, or hoped, the U.S. would step in.

Helia Ighani is a research associate in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Iraq appears to be coming apart at the seams. The Sunni terrorist organization, the Isla…