In the first few months of 2019, streams of women, children, and surrendered fighters have trickled out from the Islamic State’s last...

Archaeologists and historians alike have long studied the ancient Iraqi city of Samarra. Spanning both banks of the Tigris, the...

Western countries routinely and almost systematically regard the Middle East as a historically conflict-ridden region, and the...

Mainstream American mass media tends to suggest that the rise of ISIL in the Middle East has been predominantly countered by the efforts...

More than a decade after a US-led coalition drove out Iraqi insurgents and al-Qaeda fighters from Fallujah during a brutal offensive in...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are people who have been forced to leave their home because of conflict, violence, human rights...

Lincoln Chafee ’75 served as a US Senator (1999-2007) and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island Brown Political Review: Starting with your...

The Kashmir musk deer is a curious creature. Unlike its American brethren, it’s endangered, elusive and adorned with fangs. Scientists...

Nouri al-Maliki’s abdication from the position of Iraqi Prime Minister last month sent shockwaves around the Middle East and the world....

ISIS has become a recent focus for the United States and major media outlets in the recent weeks. Brown Political Review’s Media Team...

The American government’s relationship with individual allies overseas – whether in war or peace – is a long and controversial one. 40...

Last week, President Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act. Last year’s edition of the act contained language allowing...