by Hidetoshi Azuma | Nov 14, 2014 | Monitor
International News MENA Hagel: ISIL Degraded But Remains Dangerous DoD News United States and coalition forces have made progress in recent months against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, but the campaign will be “a long and difficult struggle,”...
by Hidetoshi Azuma | Nov 7, 2014 | Monitor
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...
by Hidetoshi Azuma | Oct 10, 2014 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Piracy Top News: ISIS Captures Kurdish Headquarters in Kobani The Atlantic Council / MENASOURCE ISIS militants overran the headquarters of Kurdish forces defending the battleground...
by Hidetoshi Azuma | Sep 26, 2014 | Monitor
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...
by Naman Jain | Aug 19, 2014 | Monitor
Ebola Crisis: Liberia Finds ‘Missing Patients’ BBC Seventeen suspected Ebola patients who went missing in Liberia after a health centre in the capital was attacked have been found, a minister has said. Ukraine Businesses Look for Alternatives to Russia Gabe...