Manuel Almeida

2 articles

Ahmed Rashid on Afghanistan’s Presidential Elections and the Taliban Insurgency

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The actions of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the radical Sunni militant group that has taken control of large swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory, is laying bare the potency of extremism and its territorial ambitions. But the rise of militant jihadism had an ea

Arab world

In Conversation with Gregory Gause

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Beyond its terrible human and material cost, the Syrian conflict has exposed and exacerbated some of the Middle East’s deepest political fault lines. Outside of Syria itself, the crisis has been defined by stark differences among regional and international powers—