When North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and overran its army, most observers and analysts expected a bloodbath to follow. The Vietnam War had been going on for a long time and the communist insurgents had suffered enormous losses, as well as inflicted considerable damage on...

  (Translation by Dani Murad) The passiveness of “the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” toward the Syrian revolution was evident since the beginning of the crisis, since its violations against FSA rebels and activists have been on the rise,...

What should Washington do in Iraq? Secretary of State John Kerry is touring the region to figure that out. In Jeddah, he is expected to discuss the situation with the Saudi leadership. He will probably face the same response that General David Petraeus got from King Abdullah in 2008...

(By Faris al-Rfai; Translation by Dani Murad) Amid the recent accelerated events in Iraq, political analyst Abed Al Rahman Matar confirmed to Zaman Al Wasl, that after the sweeping invasion of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to...