Battlelines Emerge in Israel’s Election Campaign
With the date of the elections set for March 17th, the campaigning… [more]


Islamic State forces Approach Israel-Syria Border
Islamic State has suffered severe losses as a result of coalition… [more]


Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna: December 6 Statement
Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, as I have documented previously, is a… [more]


Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation to Continue Barry Rubin’s Work Before the End of the Year
The late Barry Rubin and wife Judith Colp RubinAs the one-year… [more]


MERIA SPECIAL REPORT: DID ISIS USE CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST THE KURDS IN KOBANI?
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TEN YEARS LATER: WHO WON THE IRAQ WAR, THE US OR CHINA?
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THE SOUTH CAUCASUS: OBAMA’S FAILED RUSSIA “RESET” AND THE PUTIN DOCTRINE IN PRACTICE
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THE NEW GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM: IMPLICATIONS FROM THE RECENT ADL-100 DATA
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Battlelines Emerge in Israel’s Election Campaign
By Jonathan Spyer December 27, 2020
With the date of the elections set for March 17th, the campaigning season has begun in Israel. There was little public enthusiasm for the new polls. It is only 20 months since the last time Israelis turned out to vote. The 2015 contest will be the … [Read more...]
Islamic State forces Approach Israel-Syria Border
By Jonathan Spyer December 27, 2020
Islamic State has suffered severe losses as a result of coalition air strikes in the last months. Over 1,000 of its fighters have been killed, and Kurdish peshmerga forces have driven the jihadists back on a wide front between the cities of Erbil and … [Read more...]
Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna: December 6 Statement
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi December 26, 2020
Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, as I have documented previously, is a minor Sunni insurgent group that originated as part of a two-way split in 2007 whereby most of what was Ansar al-Sunna reverted to the pre-Iraq War identity of Ansar al-Islam- under the … [Read more...]
Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation to Continue Barry Rubin’s Work Before the End of the Year
By GLORIA Center December 25, 2020
The late Barry Rubin and wife Judith Colp RubinAs the one-year anniversary of the death of my husband, Professor Barry Rubin, approaches, I am reaching out to you, his loyal readers, to help continue his important work.Barry was one of the most … [Read more...]
Iran and the Shia Militias Advance in Iraq
By Jonathan Spyer and Aymenn Jawad Al Tamimi December 13, 2020
The United States and its Western allies have recently undertaken airstrikes and other military measures against the Islamic State (I.S., also known as ISIS or ISIL) in Iraq. Contrary to the spirit of most statements coming out of Washington, … [Read more...]
The Story of Shami Witness
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi December 12, 2020
Those of you reading this post will probably know by now of the latest viral story to hit social media: namely, the revelation of the true identity of the most prominent Islamic State (IS) fanboy on Twitter by the pseudonym of 'Shami Witness.' … [Read more...]
A Jaysh al-Mujahideen Amir’s Testimony on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi December 12, 2020
I have written many times before on Jaysh al-Mujahideen, the Salafi, anti-Shi'a insurgent group in Iraq aspiring to overthrow the central government but also a noted rival of the Islamic State (IS), having issued a lengthy condemnation of IS in … [Read more...]
Help GLORIA to Continue Prof. Barry Rubin’s Work
By Judith Colp Rubin December 1, 2020
As the one-year anniversary of the death of my husband, Professor Barry Rubin, approaches, I am reaching out to you, his loyal readers, to help continue his important work. Barry was one of the most prolific Middle East scholars of our time. He … [Read more...]
Book Review: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By GLORIA Center December 1, 2020
Excerpt of Review “The enemy of your enemy is your friend,” wrote the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, about his reverence for Nazi Germany that had fought his enemies, the (British) colonialists and the Zionists. While this … [Read more...]
General Military Council for Iraq’s Revolutionaries- November 26 Statement
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi November 29, 2020
Statement 35 Oh dignified people of Iraq, Oh heroic revolutionaries, Salam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuhu. We recall in these sorts of days a year ago how the government of oppression and tyranny directed all its might against the squares … [Read more...]