Sending Toby Keith to Saudi Arabia Is a Genius Move (The National Interest)
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Read MoreDoes murder and terror by ISIS constitute 'genocide'?
Read MoreThe Mosul Dam is the country’s largest such structure, and sits near ISIS's biggest city in Iraq.
Read MoreA short video co-produced with colleague Erica Wenig.
Read MorePrint, broadcast and Internet news have all had a bad week for identifying Arabs by name.
Read MoreIslamic State militants in Raqqa, the group’s operations center in Syria, are succumbing to the flesh-eating parasitic disease leishmaniasis.
Read MoreAl-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based branch of the jihadi organization, has released a report detailing its attacks for the first three months of 1436, the current year in the Islamic calendar.
Read MoreGen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has announced a “research and essay competition” at the National Defense University to honor Saudi Arabia’s recently-deceased King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
Read MoreRaif Badawi, a Saudi dissident, blogger and activist, will not be whipped Friday in the second installment of his 1,000-lash sentence for blasphemy. Authorities cited concern for his health.
Read MoreDozens of people displaced by war in Syria and Iraq have died in the last week, following an unusually tenacious snowstorm in the Middle East.
Read MoreHeader photo: inscription in the Alhambra, Spain. Taken by me; all rights reserved.
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