favor stability and the free
flow of oil and gas while opposing terrorism.

A new fault line has emerged in Middle Eastern politics, one that will
have profound implications for America's foreign policy in the region.
This rift is not defined by those who support or oppose the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), or by conflict between Sunnis and
Shiites and the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It is
characterized by a fundamental division between Islamists and
non-Islamists.

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Greece’s National Intelligence Service said Tuesday that it was at “a
heightened state of vigilance” for suspected militants, keeping close
tabs on radical Muslims, and had detected at least six foreign fighters
with the terrorist group Islamic State transiting through the country in
recent months.
The surveillance operation comes amid concern that
the militant group, formerly known asand formed
Iraq. This mistake must not be repeated … The solution is a breakup,"
says General Maghdid Haraki.
The Kurdish peshmerga officer is speaking from the front lines in
Khazar, northern Iraq. His position is only 45 kilometres northwest of
Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish regional government (KRG),
which along with Sunni and Shiite Arab lands makes up modern Iraq.

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Since containment is no longer a viable option, Washington
must build a regional coalition of the willing to roll back the
terrorist group.

"We don't have a strategy yet." With those words, President Obama seems
to have encapsulated everything that his critics have been alleging for
months: that he's improvising, halting and altogether slow to react to
the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, the
brutal terrorist group that has seized