Book Talk: “If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century” by Amb Elliott Abrams “American Jewish identity is steadily weakening. National surveys show hundreds of thousands of children with one, or even two, Jewish parents not…
The rapid implosion of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long rule in Syria is the latest shake-up in a quickly changing Middle East. Though Iran’s loss of a prime asset in al-Assad marks a blow to the regime’s regional designs, Iran is simultaneously…
Within hours of Syrian rebels entering Damascus Sunday and forcing autocratic leader Bashar al-Assad into exile, President Joe Biden was on national television laying out preemptive military actions and pledging continued U.S. engagement as Syrians chart a new path forward.…
For years Western civilization has been in crisis. In the United States, which long ago replaced Britain as the leader and ultimate defender of Western civilization, there has been a growing chorus of those doubting the virtue of the country’s…
Bashar Assad’s rapid fall as president of Syria offers Israel and the United States a chance to bolster their regional security interests, experts said on Monday during a Jewish Institute for National Security of America online event. “The Israelis don’t…
The collapse of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria throws a major wrench into the counter-ISIS mission for the roughly 900 U.S. troops in the country, while also complicating Washington’s allies in the region. The U.S. carried out a massive preemptive…
Elliott Abrams, the former U.S. special representative for Iran during the first Trump administration, said he doesn’t expect much U.S. involvement in Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, but that the newly volatile situation creates both new…
The rapid-fire collapse of the Syrian dictatorship of Bashar Assad has engulfed the Biden administration in a new wave of criticism about its efforts to claim a win for the end of one of the most brutal regimes in the…
Less than 24 hours before Syrian rebels seized Damascus, toppling President Bashar al-Assad, President-elect Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, emphatically writing that the US should have “nothing to do” with Syria. “THIS IS NOT OUR…
The stunning and rapid collapse of Syria’s ruling Assad regime in recent days is the latest domino to fall in Iran’s regional axis, further weakening Tehran’s strategic deck of cards. The departure of Bashar al-Assad marks the end of decades…