Tissue samples from the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli-Hamas Gaza war shows remnants of heavy metals in the wounds of Palestinians which can lead to cancers
After its titanic civil war, can Syria remain a united state? And if it does – if Syria can be put back…
Donald Trump hasn’t quite thought through his first foreign trip to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican
A sign of how desperate his war against Isis has become
There were thousands of eyewitness testimonies to these atrocities, including the burning of babies by Turkish gendarmes. And Trump, as we all know, cares very much about ‘beautiful babies’
The madder he gets, the more seriously the world takes him
Gas, cruise missiles, barrel bombs, Hitler and the American media. Mix them all up and I suppose you get Trump’s new policy in the Middle East
The great geopolitical battles in Iraq seem far away until you notice the contrails sweeping the skies far above Jibl Jarrah
In a land where retired murderers still abound, commemorating the dead of a civil war has countless problems
Today, there are around five million registered Palestinian refugees. Britain was the midwife of that expulsion
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