Talal Alyan

Tensions have once again flared between North Korea and it’s southern neighbor. The latest conflict has the communist nation declaring a state of war while concurrently insisting, “nuclear armed forces represent the nation’s life, which can never be…

After the initial euphoria of the Arab revolutions, my more cynical peers would often ask me if it had been worth it. Wouldn't it have been better, they question, if all the turmoil and violence had been avoided? The answer is no. The salient reason…

I wish I could say differently, but when Obama ran for his first term, I was admittedly enthusiastic. At the time, the center of my political world was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And here was a man who had been introduced to the conflict by…

Gazprom, the huge Russian energy company, has reportedly offered Cyprus an alternative to the controversial EU rescue package that would tax deposits in every Cypriot bank. The world’s biggest natural gas extractor presented the deal Sunday to…

It was 25 years ago on March 16, 1988 that Kurds in Halabja, northern Iraq, glanced above their heads to find chemical bombs being dropped by Iraqi aircraft. The scene was characterized by witnesses as rising stacks of colored smoke that initially…