By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On September 18th, seven US Senators sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This comes amidst a dispute over whether there should be an […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN According to a new article in the New York Times, Italian rural villages are in danger due to mass migration to urban centers over the last century. […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Before midnight on September 15th a Russian airstrike hit near where US-coalition supported Syrian Democratic Forces were operating east of the Euphrates river. According to a […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN With the Kurdistan referendum in the Kurdish region of Iraq quickly approaching, many of the processes set in motion years ago, even decades or 100 years […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Time and again we hear the refrain: We shouldn’t do policy X because it might force country Z into the “other” camp. A recent article says […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In early August I went to Ukraine to cover the Donbas conflict, which is stretching towards its fourth year. Ukraine is in some ways at the […]
By Seth J. Frantzman At 2:30 am on September 7th a Syrian government compound nestled near a hillside near Masyaf blew up. “It is no ordinary base,” writes Jack Moore […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN A new article gives us the familiar bell-ringing. “European civilization is dying” is the refrain. It is threatened by migration, demographics and Islamist extremism. The author […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Robbie Gramer, a reporter for Foreign Policy has been searching for US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. On September 5 he tweeted; “It’s kind of telling that […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN In 2013 ‘Time’ Magazine ran a cover describing the “face of Buddhist terror.” The same Magazine in 2014 when discussing Islamic State atrocities claimed “ISIS is […]
