Columns
My Dinner in Homs on Election Day
On Monday night of last week, if someone had told me that on Tuesday, June 3rd, I would be traveling from Damascus north to the city of Homs in an armored van convoy with two carloads of AK-47-packing Syrian soldiers, I would have...
Landmarks of the “Asian Course” USA and Russia
Not so long, U.S. President Barack Obama made a decision to “return to Asia”. The essence of this political program is the cobbling together of a military and political bloc consisting of the United States, Japan, Australia (in addition to other countries...
Iraq: The Armed Conflict has Gone Wild
Armed clashes in the northern and central Iraq are getting more intense after the successful attack of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on June 10 that resulted in the occupation of the northern Nineveh province and its administrative center - the city of...
