“In Yemen today, the US embassy is closed to the public. Officials are telling CNN that there is credible information of a threat against Western interests there,” a CNN news anchor read the news bulletin on May 8. This is CNN’s Yemen.

I unfriended another Facebook friend this week. It may seem a trivial matter, but for me, it is not. The reason for my action was Syria.

For years, Palestinian factions have strived for unity, and for years unity has evaded them. But is it possible that following several failed attempts, Fateh and Hamas have finally found that elusive middle ground?

To understand how thoughtless the latest US “peace process” drive has been, one only needs to consider some of the characters involved in this political theatre. One particular character who stands out as a testament to the inherently futile exercise is Martin Indyk.

Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Ze’ev Elkin, is a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party and his predominantly rightwing Cabinet.

US Secretary of State John Kerry couldn’t hide his frustration anymore as the US-sponsored peace process continued to falter. After eight months of wrangling to push talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority forward, he admitted, while in a visit to Morocco, on Ap

As the US-imposed April 29 deadline for a “framework” agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority looms, time is also running out for the American administration, which must now conjure up an escape route to avoid a political crisis if the t

When Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was confined by Israeli soldiers to his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mohammed Dahlan reigned supreme.

Long before the boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign inched slowly from the fringes of global solidarity with Palestinians to take centre stage, Tony Benn had been advocating a boycott of Israel with unrestricted conviction, for years. “Britain should offer its suppo