Author: James Dorsey

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Saudi troops on their way to fight Houthi rebels in Yemen

Saudi Arabia and Iran

Defeat Islamic State - or become it

The dawn of 2016 has brought a new round of doomsday predictions that Saudi Arabia’s ruling Al Saud family cannot sustain its autocratic grip on power. The kingdom, pessimists argue, is caught in a perfect storm with economic problems, social challenges and foreign policy crises all converging at the same time. By James M. DorseyMore

Iran-Saudi conflict: The Middle East′s Cold WarSaudi Arabia: Janadriyah Festival of Culture: A population ruled by fear″Islamic State″: lessons learnt: What chance a Muslim reformation?Saudi intervention in Yemen: Stoking the fires
French soldiers patrol the subway in Marseille (photo: Reuters/J. P. Pelissier)

Paris aftermath

Jihadists drive the wedge deeper

The latest attacks by IS are an attempt to exploit societal rifts at the heart of Europe. Without a concerted effort to address deep-seated and justified concerns relating to domestic social and economic policy, France′s retaliatory strikes are likely to achieve little. By James DorseyMore

Karim Benzema: The boy next doorCuspert the IS terrorist: Mortal dreams of paradiseFrench reactions to IS terror: "What next? Will we ask Muslims to kneel?"

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Most Recent Photo Essay

Forced removals: it's estimated that 8,000 refugees live in Bihac. The camps are overcrowded and every day there is talk of burglaries. There was a stabbing in front of the kindergarten. Next to Camp Bira, there were about 500 people not registered with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). In mid-June police picked them up and drove them to a site called Vucjak

The inhumanity of Bosniaʹs Vucjak refugee camp

Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them