Jordan at various levels of government never failed to make the Palestinian conflict a core regional crisis and the continued epicentre of its foreign concerns.

US President Donald Trump is not often right, but on his decision to walk away from the nuclear deal with Iran, he could have been very right.The flaw in the 2015 deal with Iran stems from the fact that its scope is confined to stopping, or better still, postponing Iran's uranium

The late US president Richard Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974 because of his alleged complicity in the so-called Watergate scandal that was triggered when five men, allegedly acting on behalf of president Nixon, broke into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headqu

The right of self-determination and the respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of states are two cardinal principles in international customary and conventional law that are on a head-on collision in many parts of the world, where there are sizable ethnic communiti

The case of the two “black Americans” who were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks coffee shop on April 12 caught my attention for two basic reasons: One is the reference to “unconscious bias” as the reason why the coffee shop called the police who handcuffed the two persons and

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "confessed" in 2015 in the wake of the Russian major military buildup in Syria, including the construction of air and naval military bases in Hmeimim and Tartus respectively, that Russia is in Syria for the long haul to protect Russian geopo

A top-ranking UN official at the Office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights in Geneva complained recently during a meeting with members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) about the reduced funding to the UN human rig

There is more to Riyadh's recent decision allowing women to drive a car or choosing their wardrobe than meets the eye.

The international effort to judge which country is the "happiest" to live in, and which one is the least is like a woman looking at the mirror and asking who is the prettiest of them all!