Opinion

  Why risk so much to go after Abu Sayyaf?   For those outside of military and intelligence circles, Abu Sayyaf is an unknown, mid-level leader in...

    Adding to the confusion are the attempt on the part of Iran to outflank the Sunni arc in Yemen, and the rampaging Sunni Islamic...

  The Christian communities of Syria and Iraq have survived 2,000 years of tumult and war. In some of them, prayers are still said in...

  Yet despite its ancient roots, the divide hasn’t been this deep or bloody for centuries. And it is only in recent years that it...

Multiple and overlapping conflicts are threatening more than individual states: The entire architecture of the Middle East state system is at risk. The report...

  Not that the ruling by the three-judge panel of the Second Circuit in New York lacks for errors of law and fact. The panel...

USCIRF is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission established in 1998.  The legislation creating the Commission charged it with reviewing religious freedom violations...

The war in Syria continues to drag on, with a recent and renewed vigor demonstrated behind an opposition long portrayed as fractured and reflecting...