Author: Neville Teller

“Remaining and expanding” (baqiya  wa’tatamaddad) became the official slogan of Islamic State back in 2015, when its first territorial losses

Lebanon is in chaos.  For more than a week mass protests have been blocking city streets and town squares across

Media commentators are in a spin over recent developments along the Turkish-Syrian border.  For example, several are scratching their heads

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to straddle the global stage like a colossus. With one foot firmly planted in

At around the time the State of Israel came into being, something over half the non-Jewish population of what used

During its heyday in 2014-2015 Islamic State (ISIS) conquered, and ruled over, great tracts of Iraq and Syria. It took

Jordan presents itself to the world as a constitutional monarchy – a state supporting a multi-party political system, an elected

Qatar – dubbed “the wild card of the Middle East” – makes for an intriguing case study. Not much is

Over the past 18 years there has been an armed insurgency in Afghanistan.  It is being waged by the extremist