By John Price, Monday, October 19, 2015 President Vladimir V. Putin has been waiting for the opportunity to undermine the United States power in the Middle East. Seizing on that opportunity in Syria was in part due to a lack of U.S. policy that allowed the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and al-Qaeda […]
Read MoreU.S. Policy Advisors on the Middle East Region
By John Price, Monday, September 28, 2015 The world is wondering why the United States has moved so slowly to wipe out radical Islamist groups, as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) that are destabilizing much of the Middle East and parts of Africa. Battle-hardened rebels have been waiting for military assistance from […]
Read MoreMali is in al-Qaeda’s Cross-Hairs
By John Price, Wednesday February 19, 2014 On Friday February 7, 2014 near the northern Mali town of Tamkoutat, thirty-one people were killed in two ambush attacks by Islamists. The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA) was responsible for the attacks, according to Mali’s interior ministry. Last week near the Niger border […]
Read MoreConflict Resolution Through Sports
By John Price, Tuesday February 11, 2014 “Sport has the power to unite people in a way that little else does” – Nelson Mandela It has been twenty years since the genocide that devastated Rwanda. Over 800,000 people lost their lives—for no other reason than belonging to the wrong tribe. The slaughter by the Hutus […]
Read MoreBeirut to Benghazi: We Didn’t Learn a Lesson
By John Price, Wednesday January 22, 2014 We could have learned a lesson from the thirty-six terrorist attacks against Americans in Lebanon in the early 1980’s. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed in April 1983, killing 63 people. In October truck bombs struck two barracks housing a U.S.-led peacekeeping force in which over 200 […]
Read MorePartitioning May Be a Peaceful Solution
By John Price, Wednesday November 20, 2013 The goal of building democratic institutions in North Africa and the Middle East could prove to be futile. The Arab Spring uprisings that brought about regime change in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen did not bring peace to the region. The U.S. push for regime change in Syria, […]
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