Walid Phares
ARTICLES BY: Walid Phares
Obama’s Strategic Mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s Opposition
It has already been established, including in my recently published book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid, that...
The Khomeinist Dome: Iran’s True Nuclear Intentions
As a reader of Khomeinist global strategies since the early 1980s, and as I have argued over decades in books and articles, Tehran's regime possesses...
U.S. Policy and Avoiding Catastrophes in the Middle East
This month, my book The Lost Spring: U.S. Policy in the Middle East and Catastrophes to Avoid will be in libraries across America and online. This...
The ‘Iran Deal’ is Washington’s Gravest Foreign Policy Mistake
The Obama Administration, in its first and second terms, has committed strategic mistakes in the Middle East that will undermine U.S. national and security interests...
Miracle on the Nile
A miracle on the Nile has been accomplished recently. Tens of millions of Egyptian citizens from all walks of life, Muslims and Christians, conservatives and...
Save South Sudan, or Lose Africa
South Sudan is the newest country in the world, and unfortunately it seems to be on the edge of the newest civil war in the...
A Real Interim Solution for Syria
In the northeastern part of Syria—contiguous to Iraq and Turkey—lies al Hasaka, or the Triangle, also known as al Jazeera province. As large as Lebanon, this...
The Nile of Democracy Will Flood Egypt’s Jihadists
As soon as the Egyptian military asked President Mohammed Morsi to step down and dismantle his Muslim Brotherhood regime, millions in the streets of Cairo...
U.S. and Syria: Strategic Choices
Two years and three months after the start of the Syrian revolution and its subsequent transformation into a full-fledged civil war, the United States stands...
U.S. Administration Wrongly Advocates the Islamist Interpretation of Islamophobia
The State Department issued a report denouncing what it called "a spike in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia." It said that "Muslims...
The AP Capitulates to the Muslim Brotherhood on Narrative
In a stunning move, the Associated Press (AP) capitulated to pressures by Islamist group CAIR to drop the use of the term "Islamist"...
Senior al-Qaeda Veteran Captured, Successors Roam Planet
Earlier this week, Americans learned about the arrest and extradition to the US of Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a former al-Qaeda spokesman during the attacks on...
US Aid to Syria’s Revolution Not Just to the Jihadists
Secretary of State John Kerry's proposal of $60 million in aid to the Syrian Opposition Council was met with skepticism by some backers of the...
Obama Abstract on the Middle East, Admits Jihadi Expansion, Ignores Taliban After 2014
In his State of the Union speech of 2013, President Barack Obama addressed several crises in the Middle East and on the front of fighting...
