The shadowy outlines of a new US strategy towards Iran are exercising diplomats and experts around the Middle East and in the…
A rare joke was circulating among Iraqis shortly before their prime minister met George Bush in Amman recently. What would the US…
At one level you have to hand it to the Israelis. Once cleared into the Knesset, the parliament building, journalists can wander…
My recent comment piece explaining how Iran’s president was badly misquoted when he allegedly called for Israel to be “wiped off the…
It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the…
Tony Blair’s folly in taking Britain to war in Iraq is blood under the bridge, a blunder that cannot be reversed. But…
By the time you read this, there may be good news from Africa. A peace agreement could have been signed for Darfur,…
Baghdad. Much ink, as well as indignation, is being spent on whether Iraq is on the verge of, in the midst of,…
By strange chance the American embassy in Damascus almost faces Iraq’s. As US forces roared up the Euphrates valley to topple Saddam…
Ā “New Europe” is dead, and that’s official. The verdict is not that of an obscure thinktank. It comes from the central…
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