President Barack Obama is making the first visit of a U.S. head of state in 88 years this week as the thaw in US-Cuban relations reaches a new stage. On the occasion of the landmark visit The Tennessean asked Patrick Ryan to share a perspective on developments in the relationship.
Dear Reince: You must have felt as happy to come to work today as the mayor of Kunduz.
In this interview originally published at SUSRIS.com, Patrick Ryan spoke with Dr. Hanan Edrees about the legacy of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
When King Salman talks with President Barack Obama in their upcoming meeting, which is the Saudi king’s first White House visit as ruler, much of the attention will be on critical questions of regional security crisis management and bilateral defense issues. How to deal with conflicts besetting Yemen, Iraq and Syria, and emergence of post-nuclear deal Iran will top the leaders’ agenda.
Beyond repair in Afghanistan.
Yesterday Ms. Mackey, distinguished journalist, author and prophetic analyst, passed away at age 77. I am pleased to share a reflection on her work in the Arab and Muslim worlds.
This week the drama that is the Russian invasion of its neighbor, Ukraine, unfolded to reveal the character of strongman Vladimir Putin and to sound a wakeup call to the West that it is back to the future in the relationship with Moscow.
..please accept this flag as a symbol of your loved one’s service to this Country.
On March 19, 2003 the United States invaded Iraq. We must never forget those who went.
The unrest and violence that has erupted in more than a dozen countries across North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia has refocused Americans' attention on two different but not disconnected historical movements in the Muslim world. The first is the campaign of terror launched by Osama bin Laden and an alliance of militant Islamic warriors who have sought to expel the West from Muslim lands, oust pro-Western dictators and unify those lands as a single Islamic nation for over 15 years. This movement, initially supported by America and its allies when it was used to dislodge the Soviet Union from Afghanistan in the 1980s, metastasized into the Al Qaeda terror groups that eventually attacked the United States on 9/11. The toll in American blood and treasure has been over 10,000 lives and trillions of dollars in damages and the cost of U.S. led wars.