Publications

Eurasia Security Watch: No. 330

November 13, 2014

Iraq update;

Bahrain to publish names of terrorist financiers;

Saudi Arabia funds $3 billion in French arms to Lebanon;

Libyan city, Egyptian militants pledge allegiance to ISIS' Jordan dictates acceptable Islam to clerics  

Desperate And Dumb

November 10, 2014 James S. Robbins U.S. News & World Report

Last month, President Barack Obama reportedly wrote a private letter to Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, seeking to tie the fight against the Islamic State group to the ongoing negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. The White House purportedly sought to pressure Iran into reaching an agreement by the November 24 diplomatic deadline by hinting that failing to do so would affect American efforts against the Islamic State group.