A proxy in the war between Qatar and Saudi Arabia

So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia’s latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant

What passes for comment these days is often simply foul abuse

There are intriguing hints that the conflict is changing. There are mini-ceasefires now

Borders are becoming a bit odd in the Middle East

No one in the Middle East will be studying Ukraine’s violent tragedy with more fascination – and deeper concern – than President Bashar al-Assad of Syria

Young women who have been killed in their thousands across the Middle Eastern region should be listed, at least in the afterworld, on some roll of martyrdom

The presumption of guilt is just one of Saddam’s creations that has passed on seamlessly to his elected successors

The pictures are horrific, the torture details revolting, the numbers terrifying

Of its 250,000 Palestinians, scarcely 18,000 now remain; up to 1,500 are dead, many of them due to hunger