Here we go again

10 years ago

French Prime Minister Valls declared war Saturday: It is a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam, against everything…

Libya at swords’ points

10 years ago

I was going to write up this event, but as my highly efficient colleagues at the Middle East Institute have…

Who has gas?

10 years ago

President Putin's cancellation of the South Stream pipeline project leaves parts of the Balkans vulnerable to a supply disruption and…

Hello Kurdistan!

10 years ago

I haven't actually watched this video of a discussion last Friday with Namo Abulla of Kurdistan's Al Rudaw and Tzvi…

Charlie Hebdo

10 years ago

It is all too easy to think of many valid reasons to denounce the murder of 12 staff members of…

Never update

10 years ago

An update of peacefare's software this afternoon has created problems I have not yet solved. Some graphics, buttons and items…

This really did cheer me a bit

10 years ago

via @laurenist:

Why we are losing the long war

10 years ago

The United States went to war with Islamic extremism in the aftermath of the murder of nearly 3000 people on…

Scraping the bottom of the barrel

10 years ago

With the likes of Josh Landis predicting more of the same (fragmentation, radicalization, impoverishment, displacement) in Syria, it would be…

Happy New Year Balkans!

10 years ago

A Kosovar friend provides this New Year's view of Vienna, expressed through Albanian music: Trying to be politically correct, I…