Five Steps to Save Iraq from Al Qaeda
By James Kitfield The unsettling news in recent days that Al Qaeda in Iraq (newly renamed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS) has captured the strategic crossroads town of Fallujah, Iraq, was…
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Syria’s Assad Dynasty: The Next Generation
Back in 1982, when Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad of the minority Alawite sect of Shiite Islam faced a Sunni uprising in the city of Hama, he dispatched his younger brother Rifaat to put down the…