All was not well at this weekend’s high-profile annual Munich Security Conference. From afar it seemed like key foreign leaders and top diplomats were on the same page by pointing to daunting threats facing our world.

Syria has become a congested arena for various state and no-state combatants, each with its own agenda. So much so that Saturday's precarious incident, when Syrian anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli F-16 fighter jet over northern Galilee, appeared inevitable.

In a rare phenomenon, this year will see a number of legislative and presidential elections take place across the Arab world. Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and even Libya and Tunisia are all lining up to hold what can only be described as crucial elections.

The Syrian regime has never had it so good; a reversal in fortunes since it faced an almost certain debacle in the late summer of 2015 before a Russian military intervention in September of that year provided a new lease on life.

There have been many speculations over President Donald Trump's plan to reach an ultimate deal between Israel and the Palestinians, and until  December 6, when the US president announced his infamous decision with regard to Jerusalem, the Palestinian leadership was cautiousl

There was an ironic sense of déjà vu surrounding Sunday's meeting of the Palestine Central Committee (PCC) in Ramallah; a feeling that we have been here before. And that is true in many ways.

There is little doubt that the US decision to withhold or delay payment to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is more than an impulsive reaction against the Palestinian leadership in the wake of the political storm caused by

What Russia wants to achieve in Sochi later this month remains uncertain as the Syrian opposition, including key military factions, have decided not to attend.

Despite world-wide sympathy for the Palestinians in the wake of the unilateral American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, reaction to President Mahmoud Abbas' declaration that Washington has disqualified itself as an honest broker and was no longer accepted as a peace