Iraq War

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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....