So there was Samantha Power doing her “shame” bit in the UN. “Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution…

Western politicians, “experts” and journalists are going to have to reboot their stories over the next few days now that Bashar al-Assad’s…

Anne’s father Otto sought visas to the United States and the door was slammed in their face. I do wonder what the Trump administration would have done

The Arabs and Israelis will be spending far more time during the Trump presidency listening to Putin

The real purpose behind the much-trumpeted US-planned “liberation” of the Iraqi city, the Syrian military suspect, is to swamp Syria with the hordes of Isis fighters

Afghanistan will not become Islamistan or even Talibanistan. It will, when the West finally packs up and leaves, become Mafiastan. Perhaps it already is

Peres said the massacre came as a ‘bitter surprise’. It was a lie: the UN had repeatedly told Israel the camp was packed with refugees

Just as the Great War led to the Second, so the world war against al-Qaeda led, via Iraq, to the war against the apocalyptic Isis

The kingdom’s cash is not flowing so smoothly for the tens of thousands of sub-continental expatriates sweating away on his great building sites

One year on, has the world learned the lesson of the three-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach?