Center for Strategic Communication

What We Are Reading… November 7, 2014

International News Coverage MENA Why Barack Obama is writing letters to Iran’s Supreme Leader David Blair / The Telegraph Analysis: The real aim of the correspondence is to reassure Iran’s leader that “regime change” is not America’s goal...

What We Are Reading… October 3, 2014

International News Coverage Middle East, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism ISIS losing hearts and minds in its heartland ELIZABETH PALMER & KHALED WASSEF / CBS News The people of Raqqa, by and large, are forced to toe the line and follow the diktats...

What We Are Reading… September 26, 2014

International News Coverage Middle East, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, and Counterterrorism As U.S. takes on the Islamic State, al-Qaeda remains degraded but not defeated Greg Miller and Kevin Sieff / The Washington Post Zawahiri was silent on a far more sensitive...