All Stories

July 9, 2016

Blair and Bush’s attempt to reshape the Middle East lit a fire which burns to this day

Not for the first time recently, Britain woke up to find the clocks had gone back. On Wednesday when the Chilcot report was published, it was to 18 March...

Article
July 9, 2016

REVEALED: Leaked tapes expose Western support for renegade Libyan general

A multinational military operation involving British, French and US forces is coordinating air strikes in support of a renegade general battling Islamist militia groups from a base near Benghazi...

Article
July 8, 2016

Philippine leader slams US interventions in Middle East

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has blamed conflicts in Middle Eastern countries on foreign intervention, insisting that the United States “imported terrorism”. He told Muslim Filipinos attending an Eid al-Fitr...

News
July 8, 2016

Tony Blair and George Bush created Islamic State

Thirteen years ago, Britain’s then prime minister Tony Blair relied on false evidence to justify taking the United Kingdom to war. For reasons perhaps better known to him than...

Article
July 8, 2016

The week in pictures

The last 7 days in pictures…...

Videos & Photo Stories
July 8, 2016

Russian, Assad regime airstrikes kill 22 in North West Syria

A total of 22 people were killed by Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes on residential areas in northwestern Syria’s Aleppo province late Thursday, a civil defense source reported. The...

News
July 8, 2016

Gaza: Two years on

https://youtu.be/PBv8HM8mNTo Two years on from the onset of Israel’s 51-day war on Gaza, life in the besieged Strip is virtually hopeless for the 1.8 million people living there. The...

Videos & Photo Stories
July 8, 2016

International exploitation of convenient timeframes

The Middle East Quartet report released recently once again takes issue with settlements as an obstacle to peace, a reiteration that has become as obsolete as the two-state compromise....

Blog
July 8, 2016

What will the next UK PM do in the Middle East?

There has already been much ink spilled over the potential impact of “Brexit” on the UK’s relationship with the Middle East (including several excellent articles published here on MEMO)...

Article
July 8, 2016

Cairo mulls response to Rome sanctions over murder case

Egypt is considering means of retaliating against a recent decision by Italy to stop providing it with military spare parts in response to the unsolved murder earlier this year...

News

All Stories Archive

Subscribe to our newsletter