Luke Coffey oversees research on nations stretching from South America to the Middle East as director of the Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.
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This morning 100 French police officers raided two apartment blocks in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, just days after the Paris terror attacks resulted in… Read More
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Russia’s intelligence services have finally admitted what most have already suspected: that a bomb brought down the Russian commercial airliner over the Sinai Peninsula last… Read More
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In light of the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, which resulted in at least 139 dead and another 350 wounded, there has been significant discussion… Read More
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Last June, Turkey held a general election, but no single party won enough seats within the legislature to form a single ruling party. After a few… Read More
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In the wake of civil war in Syria, the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), an Islamist ascendancy in Libya, and a series of conflicts… Read More
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The Obama administration has made a big deal over Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent meeting with representatives of the Gulf Cooperation Council, a loose… Read More
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Turkey, a NATO member, conducted multiple airstrikes over the weekend in both Syria and Northern Iraq. Here’s what you need to know from Luke Coffey,… Read More
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Facebook’s chairman and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on social media he is currently reading “The Muqaddimah”—a book written in 1377 by the Islamic historian Ibn… Read More
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What was the outcome of the Greek election over the weekend and why were these elections important? The recent elections in Greece have sent shockwaves… Read More
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This week’s NATO Summit in the United Kingdom couldn’t come at a more important time. Russian aggression is on the rise. NATO’s combat mission in… Read More
