As I write this article on the 13th day of Israel’s so-called Operation Protective Edge, stories of entire families collectively pulverised, women and children keenly targeted by Israeli soldiers saturate the media.

When the bodies of three Israeli settlers — Aftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 — were found on June 30 near Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israel went into a state of mourning and a wave of sympathy flowed in from around the world.

As Iraq stands on the verge of a complete breakdown into mini sectarian states, former leading neoconservative and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle made a sudden appearance on Newsmax TV.

When I was a child, I was obsessed with socialism.

“Brother, brother,” a young man called me as I hurriedly left a lecture hall in some community centre in Durban, South Africa. That happened at the height of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, when all efforts at stopping the ferocious US-Western military drive against t

“Labeiki ya Zaynab,” chanted Iraqi Shiite fighters as they swayed, dancing with their rifles before TV news cameras in Baghdad on June 13.

Palestinians are yet to achieve national unity despite the elation over the national unity government now in operation in Ramallah. There is a clear in the distinction between a Hamas-Fateh political arrangement necessitated by regional and international circumstances, and Pales

Irrespective of how one feels about the direction taken by various Arab revolutions in the last three years, a few facts remain incontestable: Arab revolts began in the streets of poor, despairing Arab cities, and Arabs had every right to rebel, considering the dismal state of af

“Opportunistic” is a fitting description for Libya’s rogue General Khalifa Haftar who, for the second time in less than four months, mounted a coup against Tripoli. Haftar’s opportunism has accompanied the man for the last 45 years; at 71, he is now deter