Of shadows and fears
For more than a decade and a half, Muslim countries from Afghanistan to Iraq to Libya to Palestine have been the targets of the most colossal war machines that the…
Making sense of Syria
The declining US influence in the Middle East has prompted the Trump administration to militarily intervene in the festering Syrian civil war. After the chemical attack in the Syrian town…
Contesting Kashmir
Given the ulterior agendas of global powers like the US, the UN record of resolving the status of contested domains is poor. Eritrea, Kashmir, Palestine, East Timor and Western Sahara’s…
Obama courts Gulf kings keen just to see him go
President Barack Obama will make another trip to Riyadh to consult Washington's Gulf allies on the crises in Yemen and Syria this week, but may not receive a royal welcome.…
Egypt’s sham trials
Last week, the first democratically elected leader of Egypt since the Pharaohs' time, Mohammed Morsi, ousted in a military coup the US wouldn't call a coup was handed life sentence…
Obama courts Gulf kings keen just to see him go
President Barack Obama will make another trip to Riyadh to consult Washington's Gulf allies on the crises in Yemen and Syria this week, but may not receive a royal welcome.…
View Point: Saudi-Iran row and us
Saudi decision to execute Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr along with 46 other critics/opponents of the regime seems to have been taken without a care for the consequences. The execution…
Out of Syria
In a surprise announcement on March 14, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced that the Russians were withdrawing “most of our military” from Syria beginning immediately. According to the TASS news…
China vs America: the new cold war
According to the renowned structural realist, John J Mearsheimer, the Chinese economic and military rise in the 21st century would not be peaceful; the US would employ all means, fair…
Obama in Havana
Barack Obama hadn’t yet been born when, 55 years ago next month, his nation’s government mounted an attempt to invade Cuba barely two years after guerillas under the command of…
