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The Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry has called on Iraq's security services to "assume their responsibilities" to stop what it described as Iraqi violations of the border area between the two...

Yemen's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation has apologised to the Kuwaiti government and people over his country's position on the Second Gulf War waged by former Iraqi president...

The UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed unanimously on Thursday to lift sanctions imposed on Iraq two decades ago following its invasion of Kuwait under former dictator Saddam Hussein. The...

Like many US presidents passed, President Obama is determined to violently attack others in the name of morality and the common good. He and other American exceptionalists tell us...

Researchers from the BBC spent six months on the trail of the money looted from Egypt; on the day that the resultant documentary was broadcast, the Guardian newspaper published...

Last summer, on an exceptionally sunny London day, I was walking to my office and suddenly I was jolted from my thoughts by a voice calling my name. I...

The Middle East is in a state of constant tension, spreading from country to country. The cause is often Israel and its policies, including the main focus of the...

After forty years of absolute rule during which he spent billions of dollars to boost his image in the world, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi finds himself without friends. Despite...

There is an ongoing discussion in the media and social media about the Arab-Israeli conflict going back to centre stage in the Arab world. What's new is that the...

Barak Obama's visit to the Middle East did nothing to revive the moribund peace process; nor did he try to halt Israel's illegal settlement programme. In fact, the US...

On October 10, 2002 I was driving the family during a short vacation at Yosemite National Park. Indifferent to the family's holiday disposition, I scanned the radio for the...

The late Palestinian writer, Emile Habibi has coined the Arabic word "AlMutashail" out of the two halves of the Arabic words (mutafail /optimist and mutashaim /pessimist) to describe someone...

Since the US withdrew from Iraq in 2011, the country has slipped off the political and media agenda in the west. But bloodshed in the country is steadily mounting....