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The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defence. Senators voted 58 to 41 in favour of President Barack Obama's nominee for the role,...
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Three years ago this month, I wrote a piece entitled "Who's to Blame for the Iraq War?" to mark the seventh anniversary of the US invasion. My sole purpose...
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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 a meeting with the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal spoke about the US position in Iraq with frankness unusual in...
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Careful scrutiny of opposition groups that have come to power or who are fighting to gain power reveals that they are often mirror images of the tyrants they replace....