If there is an international consensus that terrorism has become endemic across the globe and its treatment requires effective response, then nations may want to lower the threshold of respect for civil and political rights for a certain period of time till the danger ceases, sub

The international human rights process could be facing a crisis over certain human rights issues on which the world remains divided.For starters, what still strongly divides the international community is the issue of capital punishment.While an increasing number of states has pr

Russian President Vladimir Putin is playing games by once ordering his armed forces deployed in Syria and then suddenly recalling them after a few months of deployment.Putin said at the beginning that Russia’s military intervention in Syria was to combat Daesh and Jabhat Al Nusra

Israeli leaders, both from the right and the left, say that the two-state solution is now on life support.They also claim that the recent wave of violence did not help matters and may have convinced sceptics that coexistence between the two sides is not in the cards after all.Now

While the cessation of hostilities in Syria seems to be holding, it remains shaky after reported sporadic violations in some parts of the country.The UN Security Council’s recent action to endorse the “ceasefire” may suggest that both Russia and the US are supportive of the end o

The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is not shedding any tears over the exodus of millions of Syrians to neighbouring countries and beyond out of fear for their lives because of the five-year-old civil war in the country.No less than 1.3 million Syrian refugees have entere

Russia is acting as the main belligerent party in the Syrian conflict by intervening militarily on the side of Damascus and by putting its own conditions on who can represent the opposition in peace talks.It also behaves as the principal party to the Syrian conflict when it criti

I cannot see either the Republican front runner in the US presidential race Donald Trump or the equally popular Democratic contender Bernie Sanders being elected to the White House in November.Although showing great strength and popularity in their respective caucuses during

Despite all efforts and campaigns warning people not to leave their gas heaters on when they go to bed during the freezing winter nights, some people still ignore these warnings.This dire neglect is taking a heavy toll on life, as happened during the most recent cold spell,