US lines up Iran talks to halt Isis
The sectarian denunciations of the Shia are important because they imply that Iraq will be plunged into a renewed sectarian war between Sunni and Shia
World View: Its government has no real power; militias are ever more entrenched, and now the state itself is under threat
Wars these days are proxy wars to a greater or lesser degree, and this trend may increase if only because it is more saleable to voters back home
The Middle East is entering a long period of ferment in which counter-revolution may prove as difficult to consolidate as revolution
The future of Iraq as a united and independent country is endangered by sectarian Shia-Sunni hostility says Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia religious…
Suspicions that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned will be strengthened by the discovery by Swiss scientists of 18 times…
The four wars fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria over the past 12 years have all involved overt or covert foreign…
At the end of last year I visited the ancient Christian town of Maloula in a deep gorge in the mountains 20…
American, British and French air strikes by planes or missiles look probable in retaliation for the alleged use of poison gas by the…
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