By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iraqis have reacted with messages of hope and relief following the election of Barham Salih as President. He will take over from Fuad Masum […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The National Defense Authorization Act that US President Donald Trump signed today (August 13) at a signing ceremony at Fort Drum, NY includes almost 100 references […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Saturday a Syrian scientist left his home in Hama for a drive to Masyaf, a facility of the Scientific Studied and Research Center (SSRC), sometimes […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN The last week of July and first days of August were momentous and difficult for Druze in Syria and Israel. On July 25 ISIS members attacks […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN “The feeling we are not equal was always a bit present in the street. It’s sad, because we’ve always believed that someday we would be equal, […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN I’m thirty-seven years old. That means I was born in 1980 and grew up in the 1990s. It means my formative years were that turn of […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Friday May 25 reports emerged that “Six people were injured after violent fights between migrants at the Moria registration center on Lesvos.” The first reports were in Lesvosnews.gr and […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iran’s propaganda machine studied the US over the last decade and a half and concluded around 2013 that the US was very reticent to get involved […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On Tuesday morning seven people were injured as bombs targeted a convoy with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and General Majid Faraj, the Palestinian Authority’s chief […]
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN On February 24th several members of the PMU reportedly came under attack from ISIS on a road from Kirkuk to Hawija in Iraq. It is unclear […]
