ISIS-K’s ability to strike across Eurasia could push the international community to cooperate more with its chief rival, the Afghan Taliban.
Islamism
Turnout is likely to be low in Iran’s elections on Friday, but the vote will be consequential as the new Assembly of Experts will probably choose the next supreme leader
Iran’s will to win the Middle East wars stems from a strategic culture of “us against the world,” forged in the cauldron that followed the 1979 revolution.
With general elections just weeks away, Egyptian Pres. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi faces a collapsing economy and a public angered by the Gaza massacre.
Professor Jeroen Gunning joins host Arif Rafiq to discuss Hamas’s ideology, internal struggles, and use of violence against Israel.