According to the British-based Syrian Observatory, after nearly a month of Russian air strikes in Syria, 600 people were killed, many of them innocent civilians, including children.And the number can only go up, considering the increase in the intensity of air strikes.Only 10 day

It is high time that all parties and stakeholders realise that there is really no viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the time being and under current geopolitical conditions.The Palestinian crisis is now in its 67th year if one starts counting as of the creat

While Russian President Vladimir Putin has been saying all along that he was bombing Syrian targets principally to prop Syrian President Bashar Assad, the Russian prime minister told the Russian Rossiya TV Channel last week that the Russian military intervention was intended to p

When Israel invaded and occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem in June of 1967, General Moshe Dayan, who led the Israeli forces into East Jerusalem, declared that “the Temple Mount is in our hands”.That was Israel’s prime prize of the 1967 war.When Israeli prime ministe

Do multiracial, multiethnic and multireligion nations have much of a chance to survive in the long run?If one takes the US as an example, the answer is decisively no.On the other hand, if one takes Canada as an example, the answer is resoundingly yes.The differences between the t

Moscow and Washington seem to finally see eye to eye on Syria; the Russian and American leaders appear to share the common goal of preventing Syria from becoming a failed state even if that entails shifting loyalties and principled position on the conflict and the political lands

Amman is a major metropolis where about one-third of Jordan’s total population lives.The sheer size of the capital city and the number of people living in it poses untold challenges and hardships to the Greater Amman Municipality, perhaps on par with the awesome national responsi

The photo of the body of 3-year-old Syrian child Aylan Kurdi washed on the shore in Turkey’s resort city Bodrum last week shocked the world and spurred immediate reaction to deal with the floods of migrants, mostly from Syria, crossing European borders by sea, buses, trains and e

One facetious commentator described the US presidential election as a circus where a clown gets elected.This is a harsh and unfair description of the US presidential elections, but from the look of things surrounding the 2016 US presidential election, one may still get the wrong