Andrew Doran

Andrew Doran is a senior research fellow with the Philos Project. He previously served on the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State (2018–21).

National Security & Defense

Holding Down the Fort in Kurdistan: Peshmerga Play Defense against ISIS

By Andrew Doran June 16, 2015

The peshmerga keeps ISIS from expanding its borders in northern Iraq. However, the peshmerga is nowhere close to being able to conduct an offensive campaign.

National Security & Defense

Recognize Kurdistan and Arm It, against ISIS in Northern Iraq

By Andrew Doran May 28, 2015

In April, several members of Congress met with Kurdish, Christian, and Yazidi leaders at the Kurdish Mission in Washington to discuss the political, military, and humanitarian crisis and what could ...

Politics & Policy

Hope for Persecuted Christians in the Mideast

By Andrew Doran December 24, 2014

If recent Christmases provide any indication of things to come, somewhere in the Middle East terrorists are constructing, as I write, bombs intended to kill Christians attending Christmas liturgies. The ...

National Security & Defense

Intervention as Duty

By Andrew Doran August 18, 2014

Our theories, like the weather, Veer round completely every day, And all that we can always say Is: true democracy begins With free confessions of our sins. — W. H. Auden, quoted in Richard Holbrooke’s ...

National Security & Defense

ISIS in the Homeland

By Andrew Doran June 16, 2014

For a 500-mile stretch of territory that winds, more or less, along the Euphrates from Iraq to Syria, a regime of masked, sociopathic murderers reign in terror under the black ...

NR PLUS Magazine

Into Syria, Out of Syria

By Jordan Allott & Andrew Doran May 1, 2014

Near the Turkish–Syrian border — ‘Ça va?” Sabri would ask periodically, breaking the tense silence with French. “Oui, ça va.” He would then return to his thoughts, taciturn, intense. The ...

National Security & Defense

Syria’s Christian Sheep Among the Wolves

By Andrew Doran February 27, 2014

Al Hasakah Province, Syria The Christian soldier extends his hand and greets me in Syriac with “shlomo” (peace) as he clutches the strap of the Kalashnikov draped over his shoulder with ...

National Security & Defense

The Road from Damascus

By Andrew Doran February 1, 2014

Beirut — Abdel Rahman was taking his sons, Hamid Ali and Nasser, to school one morning in Aleppo, Syria, when he saw that the school had been bombed. He rushed ...

World

Lebanon: Between War and Peace

By Andrew Doran January 16, 2014

Beirut — For the past four years, Lebanon, known far and wide as the “Switzerland of the Middle East,” has sought to emulate that Swiss neutrality, though surrounded by conflict. ...

National Security & Defense

Christian Courage in Syria

By Andrew Doran January 11, 2014

Fathallah Kabud climbed behind the wheel of the car, keenly aware of the danger that lay ahead. Perhaps he thought only of the task immediately before him, the drive through ...