The priority for Syrian foreign policy for the past two-and-a-half years has been to avoid foreign military intervention on behalf of the…
All parties in Egypt have overplayed their hands in the two and a half years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak in…
Once a rebel stronghold, the town of Tal Kalakh on the Syrian side of the border with Lebanon changed sides at the…
Veteran foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn of The Independent joins us to discuss the Obama administration’s decision to begin directly arming Syrian rebels…
The best hope for an end to the killing in Syria is for the United States and Russia to push both sides…
For the first two years of the Syrian civil war foreign leaders regularly predicted that Bashar al-Assad’s government would fall any day.…
Iraqi leaders fear that the country is sliding rapidly into a new civil war which “will be worse than Syria”. Baghdad residents…
Kurdistan presents itself as the new economic tiger of the Middle East, flush with the prospect of exploiting its oilfields. The tall…
Iraqis are not naïve. Grim experience of their country’s rulers over the past 50 years leads many to suspect them of being…
It is a ferocious war waged by assassination, massacre, imprisonment and persecution that has killed tens of thousands of people. But non-Muslims…
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