There is no limit, it seems, to the blood price Arabs have to pay for their "spring". After the carnage in Egypt,…

There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been…

As the most hopeful offshoot of the "Arab spring" so far flowered this week in successful elections in Tunisia, its ugliest underside…

They don't give up. For the third time in a decade, British and US forces have played the decisive role in the…

It is essential for those in power in Britain that the riots now sweeping the country can have no cause beyond feral…

It's as if the bloodbaths of Iraq and Afghanistan had been a bad dream. The liberal interventionists are back. As insurrection and…

For most people in Britain and the US, Iraq is already history. Afghanistan has long since taken the lion’s share of media…

We were ­supposed to have learned the lessons of the Iraq war. That’s what Britain’s Chilcot inquiry is meant to be all…

Haiti’s poverty is treated as some ­baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct ­consequence of a…

If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world,…