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Jewish Policy Center: Is Central Asia Up for Grabs?

Are China, Russia, and Turkey locked in a battle for control over Central Asia, historic Turkestan? Are there prospects for one – or any...

JNS: How Muslims understand recent comments by US officials

The Western concept of “negotiations” is alien to the Muslim world. Westerners talk, hint at things, exchange ideas and try to reach...

IPT News: Afghanistan's Fall "is a Message for U.S. Allies"

As the scenes of Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban continue to unfold following the U.S.'s decision to withdraw its 2,500 remaining...

JNS: Going forward after the Afghanistan debacle

The way in which that America absconded from Afghanistan harms United States interests. Though the previous administration in Washington...

JNS: The US must bolster the Iranian people, not their brutal regime

The Iranian government is in a race against time. The riots in the streets of the Islamic Republic are spreading everywhere, most...

Revelation TV: Is defeat in Afghanistan the end of the US empire?

However we Westerners understand America leaving Afghanistan, most of the world will see it as a lack of resolve on our part. They will...

JNS: Latest attacks between US and Iran-backed militias overshadow ongoing nuclear talks

“The US knows the Iranian government cares most about staying in power. If that means sacrificing its non-Iranian allies, so be it.

Harold Rhode received a Ph.D. in Ottoman history from Columbia University and served as a specialist on Islamic culture and the Middle East in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1982-2010. He is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute in New York and Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.