Judging by the recent events and developments on the Iraqi Kurdish front, it appears that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), under the leadership of Massoud Barzani, may have bit more than it could chew after having lost the prize city of Kirkuk to the fast-advancing I

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont promised his people to declare independence for Catalonia last Tuesday, but faced with much internal and external pressures, he finally took a middle course: proclaimed independence before his regional parliament but stopped short of calli

There is more to the recent decision in Saudi Arabia to allow women to drive a car than meets the eye.The bold step is no doubt a forerunner of other sweeping reforms that Riyadh is bound to take in favour of women’s rights.Even though the decision to permit women to drive a

The Kurdish referendum now is over, what remains to be seen is what will happen next. Kurdish leader Mustafa Barzani has left the door open for an accommodation with Baghdad when he said “a referendum today does not mean an independence tomorrow”.This could mean an invitatio

The deepening racial, ethnic and religious divides in the US has serious implications not only for the future of the country but also for all those where there exist sizeable ethnic, religious or racial groups of peoples, often referred to as minorities, coexisting

Two major “blemishes” exist in the legal order of the country that escaped the attention of the Royal Commission in updating the judicial system, not to mention the concern of successive ministers of justice and heads of national judiciary.First is viewing a defamation

North Korea’s claim that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb does not really change the dynamics of the game or even the degree of the confrontation with it.True, a hydrogen bomb like that detonated by Pyongyang recently is devastating, but it should not change the fundamental

It is no secret that newspapers, including ours in Jordan, are slowly but surely fading away, with some pundits predicting their eventual extinction if no meaningful measures are adopted to turn the tide.Because of the Internet and social media, fewer and fewer people are buying

Hamas, the ruling authority in Gaza Strip, had a choice between turning the small swathe of Palestinian territory into a Hong Kong or Monaco kind of area, or make it a launching pad for the liberation of Palestine.The Hamas leadership chose the latter.As a result of Israel’s