Dr. Harold Rhode studied in Iran at Ferdowsi University in Mashhad in 1978 during the early and middle stages of the Islamic Revolution....

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to attack key chemical-weapons facilities in Syria raises critical questions, including whether...

The Syrian government, Russia, and Iran (SRI) are trying to change the demographic makeup of Syria. They aim to depopulate Syria of the...

Why couldn't Egypt's deposed President Morsi admit mistakes? Why couldn't he "compromise" with the military and stay in power? And what...

Watching the Syrians kill each other, one can get the impression from the media that there are two sides—the Assad regime and “the...

By Harold Rhode and Dan Diker Syria’s fragmentation along religious and ethnic lines exposes the apparent rupture of what has been known...

The Alawites are a small, historically oppressed people, whose political future will determine whether Syria remains united in some form...

While the news is filled daily with terrible atrocities which the Syrian regime is carrying out, these reports mask another development:...

With the end of the Cold War, a new enemy emerged, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, made up of Islamic extremists, terrorists and the...

The Sunni-Shiite Divide Iranian Shiites and Turkish Sunnis are engaged today in a huge battle to capture the hearts and minds of the Arab...

Executive Summary This analysis identifies patterns exhibited by the Iranian government and the Iranian people since ancient times. Most...

From the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, Atatürk founded a modern democratic state by forging the entirely unprecedented notion in the...