Iraq’s Saddam still revered in Jordan
Twenty years after the fall of his regime, the late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein remains admired and popular in Jordan where his image can still be seen across the country.…
Iraqi army tackles its demons 15 years after Saddam fall
As Iraqi forces battled the Islamic State group, former general Abdel Karim Khalaf came to a sad realisation - they were fighting against some of his former army comrades. The…
France looks for central role in Iraq after Saddam era
Eleven years after refusing to follow Britain and the United States into Iraq, France is now trying to take centre stage in a country overrun by jihadists with a leading…
Jews, Zionists and the media
THE CNN reporter gave a victory cry for his adventures in an active warzone. The headlines said it all. He had travelled with the Israeli air fleet to watch and ‘cover’ firsthand…
Iran hits back
FOR the first two weeks of this month, the Western media’s main focus was on how Iran might react to an egregious Israeli provocation. On the first of April, a…
Pity the nation
THE Tory devastation in the 1997 UK election was a delight to behold, but it was somewhat blunted by suspicions that New Labour was neither equipped nor inclined to reverse…
As cursing won’t help, try reason
CURSING the enemy is a heritage of many belief systems, designed as a hex in some and simply venting the spleen in others. In countless legends, men have turned into…
Win hearts, forget the match
THERE’S a stark lesson for sports enthusiasts in the international cricket tournament that concluded in Gujarat on Sunday. Australia, which had no national flags to flaunt or drums to beat in the…
Long war threat
WHEN the negotiators for the TTP threatened, by some accounts, a long war on Pakistan, I wonder whether their Pakistani interlocutors reminded them that in a long war it is…
Alarm bells ringing
IMAGES of the Iranian and Pakistani leaders inaugurating a power transmission line that will bring 100 megawatts of electricity from across the border to the Balochistan port city of Gwadar, triggered memories…
