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The much anticipated US military strike against Syria is overwhelming American political and media rhetoric in an unprecedented way, perhaps even surpassing the frenzied atmosphere during the lead up...
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Iraq's Prime Minister is in Washington for meetings with the administration about the crisis in Syria and other issues. Having met Vice President Joe Biden and Defence Secretary Chuck...
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Washington's relationship with some of its main allies in the Middle East is going through a critical time; nearly all have enough motives to reassess the nature of their...
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US Republican Senator John McCain has criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry's performance in the Middle East, arguing that US influence in the Arab world "has never been...
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It has now been five years since the sentencing of the Holy Land Five: Muslim-American humanitarians who were falsely convicted of providing "material support for terrorism" because of their...
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Here we are again. A decade on from the American-British war of aggression against Iraq, the cruise-missile liberals are demanding that "something must be done" about Syrian President Bashar...
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This past week marked a decade since the sad, early passing-away by cancer of Edward Said, and I would like to dedicate this column to him. Edward Said was...
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Attempts to analyse the Arab Spring revolutions have included suggestions of foreign conspiracies to divide and rule what is left of the Middle East. Others suggest that the revolutions...
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In an article attributed to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and published in the New York Times on October 30th, al-Maliki urged the American administration to "be patient...
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Since the election of Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani last year, there has been a significant thaw in relations with the country's old adversary, the US. This diplomatic shift...
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The issue of oil has jumped to prominence in the political relationship between Ankara, Baghdad and Erbil (the capital of the Kurdish region in Iraq), and with it has...