Bashar Al-Assad has given an "exclusive interview" to Britain's Sunday Telegraph, the first with the Western media since the beginning of the revolution in Syria. Ironically, this was shortly...

The new mantra against Islamist politicians is that they can succeed in opposition but fail in government; experience of holding the reins of power will, it is alleged, reveal...

Before clashes broke out in Syria, the head of the Hamas Movement's Political Bureau, Khaled Meshaal, contacted the Syrian leadership and offered clear and frank advice regarding the need...

There is no doubt about Islamists' commitment to the Palestinian cause, regardless of their ideological classifications, or whether they are in government or opposition. Nevertheless, a number of statements...

Sheikh Raed Salah's legal victory against the British government's decision to deport him from the UK represents one more example of the battles he has been fighting for years...

Once again Muhammad Rashid has returned to the forefront of the political scene, first through programmes on satellite television under the title "political memory", and second through the Palestinian...

President Mahmoud Abbas has warned that if all attempts to return to the negotiating table fail then the Palestinian Authority will approach the UN General Assembly seeking recognition as...

Out of nowhere, a sister of the late President Yasser Arafat has insisted that no exhumation of his remains should take place. We have never heard of this honourable...

After the victory of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza against the Israeli offensive and the relative success at the United Nations, there is a positive atmosphere with regards to...

Benjamin Netanyahu's election coalition partner has said that it is "impossible" to solve the conflict with the Palestinians. "It is possible to manage it – and it is important...

Since it was first mooted about eight years ago that the son of Hosni Mubarak was being groomed to take his place as president of Egypt, the Director of...

It has become a tradition amongst American presidents to begin their period of office by visiting Israel, especially over the past three decades during which time the Israel Lobby...

Under normal circumstances, when one country apologises to another it usually passes without comment. When the country doing the apologising is Israel people sit up and take notice. Israel...

The media has played a vital role in the Arab Spring, from social networks to TV stations. It would be foolish to think otherwise, but if the media was...

Yasser Arafat's attempt to support the Aqsa Intifada in order to rebel against the terms of the Oslo Accords backfired. Far from ending the Palestinian Authority's role as a...

Only a few months after the fighting in Syria began in earnest I wrote about the Afghan model there. Unfortunately, this has been confirmed over time. After more than...

As was widely predicted, reformist candidate Hassan Rouhani won the first round of the Iranian presidential election, gaining more than half of the votes cast. This outcome was not...

There are many reasons why the Syrian regime is still in control after more than two years of revolution. At the forefront is its reliance on a minority to...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has worked hard on the Israel-Palestine portfolio since he came into office earlier this year. He has made six tours to the region,...

Syria's apparent use of chemical weapons provides a good excuse for an American-Western military intervention in Syria. If the West was driven by the immorality of killing on a...

The campaign to remove Hamas from government in Gaza has started: a "rebellion" movement has been announced; journalists have been invited to meet its "secret" leader; and Fatah's Azzam...

The conspiracy against the Syrian Revolution has never been more pronounced than it is now after the deal to rid the country of its chemical weapons. It is clear...

Towards the end of September, the Israeli authorities announced that researchers working with an archaeologist from the Hebrew University had found a valuable item near Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. It...

When you find a report titled "The story of the secret meeting in Beirut: Lines of communication restored between Damascus and Washington" in the pro-resistance newspaper Al-Akhbar, it means...

The aforementioned question seems a bit odd at the moment, it has been two years since the Syrian Revolution turned into an armed revolution and therefore there is no...

Every other day, it seems, figures from the group who believe that "life is negotiations" mourn the current negotiation process; they sometimes get upset and resign; at other times...

When the Israelis finally complete their "Iron Dome" missile defence system they are more likely to consider another attack against the people of the Gaza Strip. Once again, the...