Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Iran

Partners for Peace?
Filling in the Blanks: Documenting Missing Dimensions in UN and NGO "Investigations" of the Gaza Conflict - Gerald M. Steinberg and Anne Herzberg, eds. (NGO Monitor and UN Watch)
Bad Headline, Worse Picture - Yarden Frankl (Honest Reporting)

Syria
Al Nusrah Front celebrates 9/11 attacks in new video - Thomas Joscelyn (The Long War Journal) While much of the jihadists’ propaganda these days focuses on tactical gains or, in the Islamic State’s case, various atrocities, Al Nusrah took a different approach in “The Heirs of Glory.” The production is meant to tie the jihadists’ current efforts in Syria to a longstanding effort to reclaim a past ruled by various Islamic empires.

United Kingdom

United States of America
FBI Rounding Up Islamic State Suspects - Josh Rogin and Eli Lake (Bloomberg) 
How the White House Abandoned American Hostages - Barak Barfi (Foreign Policy) I was an advisor to the families of U.S. hostages held by the Islamic State. And the Obama administration failed them, repeatedly.