Tag: syria

New Syria, Old Fault Lines

The Editors - December 9, 2025

One year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syria’s transition remains fraught with both hope and danger. The new leadership, dominated by former...

Is Erdoğan’s Neo-Ottoman Vision a Threat to Western Interests?

The Editors - October 21, 2025

According to Moran Alaluf of The National Interest, Turkey, under President Erdoğan, is using its ties with the West and NATO to pursue a...

Iranian-Backed Groups Lighting Fires Throughout the Middle East

The Editors - April 2, 2024

Lisa Beyer and Ethan Bronner of Bloomberg report how Iranian-backed groups are provoking a widening Mideast conflict. They write: As the war between Israel and the Islamist...

The Calm Before the Storm

Debbie Young - October 26, 2023

From White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, writing for the November/December issue of Foreign Affairs: The passages below, according to the WSJ’s “Notable & Quotable,” were...

Details of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Raid

The Editors - October 28, 2019

Intelligence that lead to the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi came from a captured courier and aide of al-Baghdadi’s wife. U.S....

The Mike Pompeo Iran Ultimatum

Richard C. Young - May 25, 2018

TAC’s Patrick Buchanan tells readers about Mike Pompeo's Plan B for Iran. Earlier this week at the Heritage Foundation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid...

Syria’s Four Fronts and a Perfect Storm of Chaos

Steve Schneider - April 20, 2018

As you can see in the map above, the Syrian civil war has many fronts and many players. Those fronts are increasingly more complicated...

Russian Reinforcements Heading to Syria

Steve Schneider - April 17, 2018

Reports indicate Russia is sending ships, including its Project 117 Alligator-class amphibious landing ship, loaded with military trucks, tanks, and armored vehicles to Syria....

Neocon Nonsense

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - September 25, 2017

Originally posted September 18, 2015. One take-away from Thursday night's marathon debate was the anti-Russian sentiment. But what is Russia doing that is so offensive...

The Answer to Afghanistan

Richard C. Young - August 30, 2017

Originally posted October 22, 2015. Former CIA bin Laden unit chief Michael Scheuer writes, “The only effective U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, then, is to immediately...

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