The toughest meeting of Barack Obama’s young presidency is approaching. In the next few weeks, he will have to sit down with…
The loss of Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka’s capital, is a major blow to the Tamil Tiger movement fighting for autonomy in the Sinhalese-dominated…
Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told…
Five years after he launched it, George Bush’s invasion of Iraq looks even more disastrous than it did at the end of…
Five years after he launched it, George Bush’s invasion of Iraq looks even more disastrous than it did at the end of…
It is a well-deserved irony for George Bush that his first presidential visit to Israel coincided this week with the storm of…
Glad tidings from Baghdad at last. The Iraqi parliament has gone into summer recess without passing the oil law that Washington was…
Whatever the two GBs have been saying to each other at Camp David about Iraq today and yesterday, one surge is already…
Washington’s fingerprints are all over the chaos that has hit Palestinians. The last thing they now need is an envoy called Blair…
The honest way forward in Afghanistan is to understand the south is lost and refocus efforts on Kabul and the north Kabul…
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