Regional Analysis Archives - Page 9 of 22

Iranian Made Drone Downed By American Forces, Does the US Have a Coherent Policy in Syria?

June 21, 2017

Late yesterday, US Coalition forces shot down an Iranian made UAV comandeered by the Syrian military. "The armed pro-regime Shaheed-129 was shot down by a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle at approximately 12:30 a.m. a...

Why is the Iraqi Government Supplying ISIS with Humanitarian Aid?

Micha Gefen

June 21, 2017

Politics, Radical Islam, Regional Analysis

BasNews, a Kurdish magazine reports that the Iraqi government is tranferring, "thousands of tons of medicine are being transferred to the Islamic jihadists." Below is the video proof: If the Islamic S...

WAR ESCALATES: Why Did Iran Just Shoot Missiles Into Syria?

Gavriel Dan

June 19, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

The war in Syria has gone from intensified to explosive as the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it fired several ground o ground missiles in from Western Iran into Syria's Deir Ez...

Kurdistan is Coming Whether Turkey Likes It or Not

Micha Gefen

June 15, 2017

Regional Analysis

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq declared on June 7 a plan to hold a referendum on the region’s independence this year on September 25. This decision has put into motion the KRG's drive for indepen...

Will America Move CENTCOM from Qatar?

Gavriel Dan

June 15, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

As the Qatar crisis heads into its second week another shoe is evidently about to drop. The AP reported that the U.A.E.’s ambassador in Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, urged the Trump administration to consider ...

How Serious is the Emerging Alliance Between Israel, Greece, and Cyprus?

Orit ben Tzvi

June 14, 2017

Partnerships, Regional Analysis

The answer to the above is... very serious. I wrote the following over a year ago in my article: Israel is Moving Beyond Turkey: The alliance stands to quickly change the Eastern Mediterranean geopolitical re...

Has the Trump Administration been Arabized?

Allan M. Coleman

June 14, 2017

Partnerships, Politics, Regional Analysis

The struggle between the US Deep State and the Trump administration can probably be felt the most in foreign policy, especially when it comes to Israel. It is no secret that Donald Trump wants to arrive at a pe...

Are Post ISIS Alliances Already Taking Shape?

Gavriel Dan

June 14, 2017

Borders, Politics, Radical Islam, Regional Analysis

As the Raqqa operation gets underway, with the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) ploughing forward into the "capital" of ISIS, the terror group's leaders and fighters are said to have already travelled to safe hav...

Did the US Create ISIS?

Micha Gefen

June 13, 2017

Radical Islam, Regional Analysis

Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the following statement yesterday: "You (the United States) and your agents are the source of instability in the Middle East...who created Islamic State? America ... ...

IRAN ON THE MOVE: Mullahs Send Warships to Oman, Food to Qatar

Orit ben Tzvi

June 12, 2017

Borders, Regional Analysis

The Iranian based Tasnim news agency reported that Iran is sending two warships, an Alborz destroyer and a Bushehr logistics warship to Oman on Sunday. They will depart from the port city of Bandar Abbas. The ...