In I Saw the U.S. Hand Iraq Over to the Iranians. Is the Whole Region Next?, which was published in the February 2015 issue of The Tower Magazine, Michael Pregent observes that not only has the United States seemingly given in to Iranian demands in nuclear negotiations, but “it is doing the...

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In recent weeks, Israel-based aid organization IsraAID has been stepping up its program to aid Yazidi and Christian displaced persons in northern Iraq. More than 18,000 Yazidis and  Christians are living in camps after fleeing from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). One of those displaced people Shehab,...

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Addressing Iran’s expanding role in the Middle East, The Washington Post editorial board wrote on Friday that “the Obama administration has declined to counter increasingly aggressive efforts by Iran to extend its influence across the Middle East and seems ready to concede Tehran a place as a regional power at...

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The Iran-backed Houthi rebels dissolved Yemen’s parliament and issued a series of decrees calling for a transitional government for a two-year period. Al Arabiya reports: One of the decrees mandated the establishment of a transitional national council that would replace the Yemeni parliament. Supporters, who convened in the capital of...

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An Iran-backed militia has emerged as the primary Iraqi military force fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to a report Tuesday by Bloomberg View’s Eli Lake. In an interview this week, Hadi al-Amiri, the founder and leader of Iraq’s oldest and most powerful Shiite militia, the Badr Organization,...

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Concern over their pilots’ safety and the growing role of Iran in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has prompted the United Arab Emirates to drop out of the American-led coalition fighting the terror group, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The United Arab Emirates...

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The United States and Iran are moving closer to a deal that would allow Iran to keep as many as 6,500 centrifuges operating in return for Iran “guaranteeing regional stability,” according to a report today in The Jerusalem Post. The news, which cited European diplomats, was originally reported by Israel’s Army Radio. According...

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Iran is making the American fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) even harder, according to an analysis published today by Michael Weiss and Michael Pregent for The Daily Beast. The analysis notes that Pregent, when he recently briefed American military advisors who were heading to Iraq,...

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An Iran-backed Shiite Iraqi militia showed off a captured American tank in a recent video, Bill Riggio and Caleb Weiss reported today at The Long War Journal. A video uploaded to YouTube appears to show a large Hezbollah Brigades convoy transporting weapons, troops, and armored vehicles to the front to...

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The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has suffered losses this week in both Syria and Iraq. In Syria, Kurdish forces were able to regain complete control of the strategic town of Kobane, which is located near the Turkish border.  In Iraq, army forces have liberated the eastern province of Diyala...

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