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A key UN body has ruled that genocide was committed recently by the Burmese military. The atrocities, widely reported at the time, were against the Rohingya people, an ethnic...
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It is sometimes hard to see why the war in Syria gets so much coverage in Britain, while the war in Yemen is all but ignored; it feels like...
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Step on to any plane heading to Riyadh tomorrow and you will rub shoulders with returning Saudi families, pilgrims, oilmen and a new swell of eager Western consultants, clutching...
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The Canada-Saudi spat looks set to accelerate as the Kingdom's central bank ordered its fund managers to withdraw hundreds of millions of dollars in equities, bonds and cash from...
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The impact of the anti-Qatar embargo continues to have strange consequences beyond the Gulf. Somalia is increasingly compromised by its schizophrenic approach to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE...
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As the world focuses on Vladimir Putin's attempts to break up the EU and NATO, overlooking how he has already done the same with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)...
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The start of July has been a day-by-day microcosm of the struggles of Bahraini activists against one of the most repressive regimes in the world. Only thanks to the...
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The connection between Europe's reticence about taking-in refugees and the dramatic rise in Islamophobia since the early 2000s cannot be decoupled. Were these refugees not largely from Muslim backgrounds,...
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The United Arab Emirates has succeeded in one of the most brilliant reputation-laundering operations of modern times. Nearly all of the outrage mustered by Western liberals, leftists and hard-working...
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As Islamophobia rises across Europe, one Muslim world leader seems to be totally indifferent to the phenomenon. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Shaikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, is...
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When a Polish MP first announced that mysterious planes were landing in the night in a forest, eyebrows were raised, eyeballs swung upwards, and some MPs even broke out...
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Has Iran reached its peak? It increasingly feels that way. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, through the war in Syria since 2012, and with the lifting of sanctions...
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Mike Pompeo, John Bolton and Donald Trump are the American triumvirate who have just passed judgement on the survival of the Iran nuclear deal. There could not be three...
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When he first came to power the world leader Vladimir Putin most admired was Tony Blair. This fact is little known, rarely acknowledged, and frankly scary. In fact, Blair...
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As Iraqi regular and irregular forces gathered on the edges of Mosul in spring 2016, flanked by Kurds and assisted quietly by Special Forces from several Western countries, Donald...
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Ignore the theological failings of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi for a moment, and the enormous degree of violence and bigotry that his group practiced. It is time to give the...
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In April 2016, a UN official wrote to the British government expressing the international organisation's thanks for hosting Maina Kiai. The former Kenyan human rights activist was the special...
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As the church bells rang in the New Year of 2018, Norway announced that it would be cutting arms sales to any country fighting in Yemen. A couple of...
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The appointment of Mike Pompeo as the new US Secretary of State by Donald Trump will not signal a change in Washington's Middle East policy. It doesn't mean that...
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It was a tale of two protests. The first was on Monday, when pro-democracy demonstrators braved a blizzard outside the Bahrain Embassy in London to salute the arrest and...
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Eighty per cent of Iraq's immediate humanitarian needs have been met by Iraqis themselves, as they seek to rebuild vast swathes of the country post-Daesh. The push for the...
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Benjamin Netanyahu is at it again, waving props around to prove that Israel is under threat from Iran. This time it was the wreckage of an Iranian drone, wafted...
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Exactly a hundred years ago, a famine which had been growing slowly across Iran suddenly hit the whole country. The disaster would go on to claim anywhere between a...
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As a new row erupts over a proposed law in Poland criminalising use of the term "Polish death camps," the Israeli Prime Minister has naturally weighed in. Netanyahu has...
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Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi was briefly famed last week when it became known that he attended the now-infamous men-only charity dinner for some of the country's wealthiest CEOs, with...
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Walk along any High Street in Britain and ask passers-by who causes more civilian casualties in Iraq and Syria, the West or Russia, and you will almost certainly hear...
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It too often falls between the cracks of the Palestine debate that the land squabbles in the holy land are not a two-way religious dilemma. As Patriarch Theophilos III...
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This year will see the last of the centenary commemorations of World War One. Remarkably few of such events held since 2014 have considered the war in its "World"...
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Only a few weeks ago, Benjamin Netanyahu had it all. He had done the impossible and been able to announce that the Gulf States were on Israel's side. What...
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In an op-ed for a special annual edition of The Economist, Benjamin Netanyahu calls his country "Innovation Nation". The Israeli Prime Minister writes that "people everywhere benefit from Israeli innovations...
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Rumours abound that the Royal College of Art, perhaps the most prestigious art school in Britain, is contemplating the opening of a branch in Dubai. Speculation centres on a...
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A new report from the British Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) presents itself as an "independent" critique of Jeremy Corbyn's foreign policy in the Middle East. The eleven-page...